Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced a new minority government on Wednesday, formed after months of talks following inconclusive elections. The government includes 21 ministers, with women outnumbering men for the first time in the country's history. Lars Lokke Rasmussen will continue as foreign minister.
Denmark's new coalition government, led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, will be presented on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, after 69 days without a new government following an inconclusive March election. The coalition includes the Social Democrats, Socialist People's Party, Radikale Venstre, and Moderates.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has strongly rejected any cooperation with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, warning against the formation of a minority government that would rely on AfD support. Scholz emphasized that a democratic state cannot be governed with the AfD, citing concerns over public criticism of bans on cooperation with the party.
Rhun ap Iorwerth says he hopes to work with other parties and press the UK government for extra powersUK politics live – latest updatesThe leader of Plaid Cymru, Rhun ap Iorwerth, has vowed to form a stable minority government in the Senedd and said he would seek out mature cooperation from all opposition parties.Ap Iorwerth said his administration would press the UK government for extra powers over policy areas such as policing and justice and focus on results rather than engaging in political rows with Westminster. Continue reading...
Disregard from UK Labour and struggling public services are just some of reasons behind ‘astonishing’ collapseBy Friday night, Keir Starmer and much of the Westminster Labour group were quietly relieved that the local election results in England hadn’t been quite as bad as feared. In Wales, however, Labour’s collapse in the Senedd was even more total than the most pessimistic predictions.For more than 100 years, Welsh Labour was the democratic world’s most successful election-winning machine, but the political behemoth limped into third place this week with just nine seats in a 96-seat parliament. A new chapter in Wales’s political and cultural history has opened: pro-independence Plaid Cymru is set to form a minority government. Continue reading...
Disregard from UK Labour and struggling public services are just some of reasons behind ‘astonishing’ collapseUK politics live – latest updatesBy Friday night, Keir Starmer and much of the Westminster Labour group were quietly relieved that the local election results in England hadn’t been quite as bad as feared. In Wales, however, Labour’s collapse in the Senedd was even more total than the most pessimistic predictions.For more than 100 years, Welsh Labour was the democratic world’s most successful election-winning machine, but the political behemoth limped into third place this week with just nine seats in a 96-seat parliament. A new chapter in Wales’s political and cultural history has opened: pro-independence Plaid Cymru is set to form a minority government. Continue reading...
Welsh nationalist party able to form minority government in Wales, blocking momentum of Reform UKElection 2026 live: latest news updatesFull results from England, Scotland and WalesPlaid Cymru have won 42 seats in Wales’s Senedd election, putting the Welsh nationalists in position to form a minority government and ending more than 100 years of Labour hegemony.Polls consistently suggested Plaid Cymru and Reform UK were neck and neck in the race to become the biggest party under Wales’s new more proportional voting system. As in last year’s closely watched Caerphilly Senedd byelection, however, the contest was not as close as predicted. Reform has come in second, with 34 seats – up from 1% of the vote share in 2021’s election. Continue reading...
Nigel Farage’s party proposed to place detention centres in places that vote for Green council leaders or MPsCommenting on the Reform UK detention centres plan (see 10.48am) on Bluesky, Sunder Katwala, head of the British Future thinktank, says it is not just potentially illegal, but also illogical in its own terms.There is rather inadvertent warped logic that a rival party said to favour “open borders” would mean ‘support detention centre’While the party favouring mass deportations at unprecedented scale means ‘oppose detention centre’ anywhere nearbyThese statements could have unwelcome legal consequences for a hypothetical Reform government - which may need to show that decisions which happen to match this pattern were chosen for other legitimate policy reasons, not as partisan political punishment/rewardA hypothetical future government with a thumping majority could have the powers to repeal any treaties, conventions or laws which may constrain this.A hypothetical minority government could find itself impeded by these kinds of public statements about the motive for locating detention facilitiesA more logical version of this school sixth form debating society policy might have the opposite design* Mass Detention in Reform-voting areas proud to vote for deportations + detentionsReform have launched a website with this “incentive” to voters in an effort to generate profile & controversy in election weekA Reform government will not put any migrant detention facilities in any constituency with a Reform MP.Nor will we put them where Reform controls the council.Reform keep making abhorrent announcements to distract voters from they fact they want to privatise the NHS. Greens are focused on building council housing, fixing our public services and bringing down the cost of living.This grotesque policy reveals Reform’s contempt for all voters – including their own. Threatening to punish places where people don’t vote your way is a betrayal of basic democratic principles. Nigel Farage has sunk to a new low: he is clearly more interested in stoking division and anger than in serving the whole country.We need to stop illegal immigration, but this is abhorrent from Reform.Zia is proposing the siting of detention centres expressly as a form of political punishment for people and places that don’t vote Reform – not just Green, but presumably Conservative, Liberal and Labour too. (And what about Reform voters in those constituencies?) Continue reading...
