Stephen MacLean

Jul 18, 2024 | nysun.com | Stephen MacLean

Few surprises were on offer at the King’s Speech presented in the House of Lords Wednesday, in which Charles III read out the agenda of his Labour-led government. Highlights of Prime Minister  Starmer’s plans include re-nationalizing the railways, establishing a state-sponsored energy corporation, tackling the housing crisis through planning reform, plus raising taxes on the petroleum industry and private education to fund further intervention.

Jul 5, 2024 | nysun.com | Stephen MacLean

Came Friday noon, Charles III “kissed hands” with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and asked him to form His Majesty’s Government. Prime Minister Sunak gave his last address outside 10 Downing Street, and entered the history books as having led the Conservative Party to its worst defeat in history.

Jul 3, 2024 | nysun.com | Stephen MacLean

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” Shakespeare’s sentiments may ring true for British Conservatives as they contemplate their fate following Thursday’s general election. Brexiteers, too, will think about what the future holds for their philosophy of “maximal liberty and minimal government,” under a Labour regime.

Jun 19, 2024 | nysun.com | Stephen MacLean

As one dispiriting poll on Britain’s general election follows upon another, the questions of the hour for British voters are: Has the Conservative Party met its Waterloo? And what is the fate of Brexit? The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union certainly did have an element of the Napoleonic wars about it — of a free nation fighting for its sovereignty from a continental superstate. Waterloo has since become synonymous with devastating and irreversible defeat.

Jun 15, 2024 | nysun.com | Stephen MacLean

With just less than three weeks before UK electors go to the polls to decide their next government, the main event right now is Nigel Farage and Reform UK. To what new heights will these challengers to the “conservative” status quo climb? And to what depths will the Conservative Party sink? At his opening remarks before a televised debate Thursday evening, Mr. Farage had a stunning announcement: “Just before we came on air we overtook the Conservatives in the national opinion polls.