Bloomberg Hours after one of Boris Johnson’s longest-standing allies quit — with a stinging rebuke of his judgment — the UK prime minister gathered shell-shocked staff in Downing Street to tell them “change is good.” But while Johnson has tried to put his trademark optimistic spin on yet another week of turmoil, the ebullient persona that carried him to ...

  Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron would face conservative candidate Valerie Pecresse and defeat her in a runoff if elections were held now, according to a poll. Support for Macron was at a field-leading 24% in the Ipsos Sopra Steria poll, followed by Pecresse of the Republicans at 16.5%. If replicated in the first round of voting in April, that outcome ...

  Bloomberg Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party cranked up the prospects of a prolonged political crisis following the resignation of the region’s First Minister, warning it won’t return to the power-sharing Executive unless issues related to Brexit are resolved. “The DUP will not be involved in forming a government in Northern Ireland until those issues have been satisfactorily addressed,” the ...