Articles by Jill Lawless

Lawmakers Warn Leaky, Crumbling UK Parliament at Risk of ‘Catastrophic’ Event

Britain’s Parliament building is an architectural masterpiece, a UNESCO World Heritage Site visited by 1 million people a year. It’s also a crumbling, leaky, asbestos-riddled structure at “real and rising” risk of destruction, lawmakers said Wednesday. In a hair-raising report, …

UK Drops Post-Brexit Plan to Scrap Thousands of EU Laws by Year’s End

Britain’s bonfire of European Union laws has been reduced to embers. The U.K. government on Wednesday scrapped a plan to remove all remaining EU laws, about 4,000 in all, from British statute books by the end of this year — …

UK Judge Rules Newspaper Violated Duchess Meghan’s Privacy in Publishing Letter

LONDON — A newspaper invaded the Duchess of Sussex’s privacy by publishing personal letter to her estranged father, a British judge ruled Thursday, in a major victory for the royal in her campaign against what she sees as media intrusion. …

UK Threatens to Walk Away from EU Trade Talks if Quick Progress Isn’t Made

Britain published its opening demands for trade talks with the European Union on Thursday, delivering a blunt threat to walk away from the table if there is no progress within four months. The two sides appear headed for a rocky …

What Will Happen to EU Financial Services Firms After No-Deal Brexit?

Britain will unilaterally accept some European Union rules and give EU financial services firms continued access to the U.K. market in order to maintain stability if the country crashes out of the bloc without a deal, the country’s top negotiator …

London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Report Says ‘Stay Put’ Policy Failed Residents

Residents of London’s Grenfell Tower were wrongly told to stay in their apartments as fire raged through the high-rise building nearly a year ago, aided by flammable external cladding and a host of fire-safety failings, an expert report said this …

Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko’ a Success at Cannes Film Festival

“Sicko,” Michael Moore’s attack on the U.S. health care system, got a warm welcome at Cannes Saturday that marked the director’s triumphant return to the film festival and a respite from the controversy his work has started at home. More …