Brian Mulroney greets Canada Day crowds on Parliament Hill in 1991.
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The death of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney will lead to a wide examination of his legacy. A lasting policy of the Mulroney regime is free trade with the United States.
The outcome of Pakistan’s general election remains uncertain as no clear victor has emerged yet.
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Days after the election, it remains unclear who the the next prime minister will be.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking during the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference COP27.
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Past prime ministers could afford to talk big on climate change – but now the impact of the environmental crisis is manifestly real, Sunak can’t afford to appease those who oppose green policies.
New Tory leader and Brith Prime Minister Liz Truss.
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It’s in Britain’s interests to help the African continent reach its potential.
Liz Truss’s plan to cut taxes appealed to Conservative Party members.
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Why the new UK prime minister could struggle to translate her low-tax strategy to the general public.
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The new leader of the Conservative party inherits a country in crisis.
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The likely next prime minister is focusing on tax cuts to solve inflation.
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As he exits Number 10, an expert on political rhetoric looks back on the quotes that best illustrate Johnson’s premiership.
Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has weighed in to the cost of living crisis debate.
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Previous government bailouts have set a precedent for intervention in the cost of living crisis
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, pictured at the second Conservative leadership TV debate, are set to debate again on July 25 2022.
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Tax cuts could ease the burden on households and small businesses that are struggling, alongside tax increases for large firms.
A protestor holds a picture of Patrice Lumumba.
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Lumumba’s death triggered students and created a generation of activists that pushed for total liberation from exploitation and oppression.
Oliver Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament.
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First uttered by Oliver Cromwell, the words David Davis used to ask Boris Johnson to step down have a storied past.
Boris Johnson has signalled that some lockdown measures will be eased on Monday,
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For the government a Sunday announcement has several advantages, many of them to do with the news agenda.
Who’s in and who’s out?
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This is Boris Johnson’s first major cabinet reshuffle since the Conservatives’ general election victory.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison prepares to address the press on Monday after he said few people knew who his NSW Liberal colleague was.
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Scott Morrison’s salvo against the NSW environment minister, one of his party’s progressives on climate change, was gratuitous and inept.
Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Prime Minister, Republic of Mauritius.
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Mauritius’ “dynastic politics” does not augur well for the often celebrated image of Mauritius as Africa’s shining democratic model.
Johnson arrives at the Conservative Party headquarters.
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Just what is Boris Johnson, the UK’s new prime minister: a liberal or conservative? A historian writing a book about Brexit, the focus of much of Johnson’s career, says the man is hard to pin down.
Move aside.
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We now have ‘Believe in Britain’ and ‘Make America Great Again’. This language posits itself as inclusive, but in reality creates the space for Trumpian excesses.
President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed a Kabila ally to the powerful post of prime minister.
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Felix Tshisekedi must come out from under former premier Joseph Kabila’s thumb.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison sings during a service at the Horizon Church in Sydney in April.
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Along with a belief in miracles, other key aspects of Pentecostal doctrine – from divine providence to pietism – will likely shape the actions of our re-elected Prime Minister.