Today is Super Tuesday in America’s presidential election process.

A general trend has emerged within political circles that, for one reason or another, the junior coalition partner in government seems to emerge worse off, getting the majority of the blame for tough decisions and less of the credit for what is achieved, writes Ben Quigley.

Britain’s major supermarkets are forecast to report lacklustre Christmas sales this week, reflecting weak economic growth and comparisons with generally solid festive results in 2018.

In last week’s general election, fought mainly over Brexit, pro-remain parties received the most votes, yet the pro-leave Tories won a huge majority of seats, says Jeffrey Sachs.

The British Prime Minister will welcome the more than 100 newly-elected colleagues, many of them from former Labour areas across the north and Midlands, to the House of Commons on Monday.

The country is heading for a general election at the end of February following British prime minister Boris Johnson’s “stunning victory” which has handed him an 80-seat majority.

Boris Johnson altered the landscape of British politics on Thursday night, ending a debilitating parliamentary gridlock and three years of uncertainty over Brexit.

Three little words, “Yes, We Can”, were all it took for Barack Obama to win the US presidency in 2008.

Tomorrow’s election in Britain is only the end of the beginning. It won’t be the beginning of the end.

Sterling held its gains against the euro and the dollar as currency markets surveyed polls suggesting Boris Johnson’s Conservatives were on course to secure a comfortable Commons majority in Thursday’s election.

Financial shares including those of Permanent TSB were boosted following upgrades of Irish banking by rating firms.

Whether it’s Corbyn or, more likely, Johnson, the fallout from the December 12 vote won’t be anywhere near as disastrous as some are saying, writes Anatole Kaletsky.

There has been a marked swing in business sentiment with regard to the UK market. Many believe, like Patrick Coveney, the chief executive of Greencore, that political certainty and stability is slowly returning despite the looming UK general election on December 12.

Further large gains for sterling are unlikely after the currency rallied on a poll showing Boris Johnson securing a large majority in the UK election on December 12, a leading economics consultancy has said.

Sterling fell yesterday after an opinion poll showed the Conservative Party’s lead is narrowing before the British election next month.

With three weeks to go, the December 12 UK general election is being billed as the most important in a generation.

The outcome of Britain’s December election poses a binary choice for sterling and “anything can happen” according to the largest UK bank.

Over the weekend Sinn Féin held its annual conference in Derry.

Sterling inched down from a six-month high against the euro and was a touch softer against the dollar, as a boost from the Brexit Party’s decision not to contest previously Conservative-held seats in Britain’s upcoming election faded.

The announcement means he has abandoned plans to contest more than 600 candidates in the upcoming ballot.

It is not necessary to be a pessimist much less a fatalist to feel we are living through a moment of great change, a moment of great reversal.

The US president staged a major intervention by calling for the Prime Minister to team up with the Brexit Party leader to form an “unstoppable force” for the December 12 vote.

Michael McAteer, the 50-year-old managing partner of Grant Thornton Ireland, the world’s seventh-largest professional consultancy firm, is here to talk about his firm’s expansion in Cork, but there is little he won’t offer a thoughtful opinion on.

Low-income earners, who are the losers when carbon taxes are increased, will need to be compensated in the budget to win support for climate action, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

In a speech on Wednesday, Tom Watson said a single-issue Brexit election may not break the deadlock in Parliament – something only a second referendum can achieve with certainty.

British prime minister Johnson’s fixation on a no-deal exit from the European Union is without justification. Brexiteers claim a trade relationship with the US will redefine trade for the world in the 21st century.

Sterling regained more ground last week as UK politicians moved to close off the prospect of a no-deal Brexit at the end of October.

The everyday language used to colour political discourse hardly seems equal to keeping pace with the convention-shattering chaos of trying to deliver on the 2016 52/48 Brexit vote.

The Scottish Parliament has symbolically rejected any no-deal Brexit, despite opposition from Conservative MSPs.

Despite repeatedly insisting he didn’t want a general election, Johnson has now tried and failed to get parliament to support one. It now looks like he’ll try again or seek a vote by some other route. Having lost his majority and control of parliament, a general election seems almost inevitable now. The big question, though, is when it will happen.

The British Government will mount a fresh attempt to call an early election on Monday after failing in a bid last night to go to the country on October 15.

Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, has confirmed that he will call a vote on holding a general election if MPs legislate to block a no-deal Brexit.

The British Labour Party is going to block Boris Johnson's attempt to seek a general election in the UK.

The British PM is right to think that suspending parliament has made a Brexit deal more likely. But the backlash could have serious consequences, writes Anatole Kaletsky.

Boris Johnson can emerge with a majority in parliament, which is all he really wants, says Michael Clifford.

The hard line over Brexit taken by Boris Johnson in his first speech in the House of Commons as British prime minister suggests a strategy that will inevitably lead to an early general election.

Former Taoiseach John Bruton has said that new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has only one perspective and that is to ensure that the Conservatives win the next election.

Boris Johnson has been confirmed as the Conservative Party’s new leader – and the UK’s next prime minister.

Alexander Temerko, a friend of Boris Johnson with connections to the highest level of the Kremlin, has donated over £1m to the Conservative Party, writes

If, as is expected, Boris Johnson becomes the new Prime Minister this week, he will find himself engaged in a political fire-fight almost before he has even got his feet under the desk at 10 Downing Street.

The Taoiseach said he is looking forward to meeting with the new British Prime Minister and hearing how they plan to secure a withdrawal agreement.

With polls indicating Boris Johnson could win the Tory leadership battle by a landslide, the irony is that his hold on power may be extremely fragile, says Andrew Hammond.

As she steps down as leader of the Conservative Party and sets in motion the process to select a new prime minister, it is timely to look at Theresa May’s legacy. Does she really have one? Sadly, the answer must be no.