U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has called a snap election for June 8. WSJ U.K. and Brexit Editor Stephen Fidler looks at some of the reasons why Mrs. May has chosen to do so. LONDON—June’s ...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s reaction to the snap elections avoided any mention of Brexit, Britain’s central political issue this generation, in a sign of his fears that trying to reverse the ...

Even if Boris Johnson gets everything he wants on December 12, a huge segment of the public will still be deeply unhappy with his version of Brexit.

When May triggered Article 50 in March, she opened the two-year negotiating window for Brexit negotiations, so it might look like taking six weeks out to conduct a general election would be risky ...

LINCOLN, England (Reuters) - James Bowkett is a long-time Conservative Party supporter who voted in 2016 for Britain to leave the European Union. Three years later, the 58-year-old businessman is ...

L ast month, U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson said he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than ask Brussels for another extension of the October 31 Brexit deadline, as the so-called Benn Act ...

Snap had planned to base “a significant portion” of its international operations in the U.K., but that could change due to Brexit, the filing states. Snap has already licensed its intellectual ...

Britain could see a general election come together before the end of the year after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill was dealt a blow Tuesday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to go to the public for an election on Oct. 15, two weeks before the scheduled Brexit day of Oct. 31, but needs the support of two-thirds of lawmakers to trigger ...

Lansdowne Partners, one of the world’s biggest hedge fund firms, has been buying U.K. stocks in recent weeks saying some prices have been pushed too low following last month’s Brexit vote.