The Foreign Desk

The numbers suggest Donald Trump cannot win the US presidency. He’s behind in the polls and seems unlikely to win enough minority voters to have a fighting chance. But what if he doesn’t need them? Can he get enough elusive non-voters to back him?

Immigration has become the number-one issue in the UK yet despite the issue’s importance, neither the Conservatives nor Labour have found a way of dealing with it. How should Westminster deal with this political hot potato?

As Theresa May prepares to settle in at 10 Downing Street, we unpack British-style democracy.

Budgets are being cut, negotiation doesn’t always work and the UN is hamstrung. How can we fix it and drag diplomacy into the 21st century? We sit down with Tom Fletcher, former UK ambassador to Lebanon, and Alex Oliver, director of the Polling Programme at the Lowy Institute.

Later this month, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will choose their vice-​​presidential candidates. ​Their pros and cons will be endlessly debated but ​do voters really care who’s riding pillion?

This is the tale of two cities: each is global, diverse and has a thriving economy but is part of a nation that faces a grave constitutional dilemma. A week after the UK’s decision to leave the EU, we compare the state of London to that of Montréal 30 years ago. We head to Canada to see what lessons the UK can learn from Quebec’s sovereignty movement.

As the UK wakes up to the consequences of leaving the European Union, we look at the chances of last week’s referendum result being overturned.

We speak to three senior UK politicians about the implications of Brexit, ask whether Scotland will demand a fresh referendum and examine what this means for Northern Ireland and the peace deal. Steve Bloomfield interviews former Europe minister Peter Hain, former Government minister Vince Cable and former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind.

Africa is a continent of 54 nations, the vast majority of which could be considered democratic on paper. And yet in the past year Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Burundi’s Pierre Nkurunziza and Congo-Brazzaville’s Denis Sassou Nguesso have all changed their constitutions to allow themselves a third term. What’s the story?

The UK may be about to leave the European Union but Europe certainly doesn’t want it to go; from Finland to Greece, from left to right, there is overwhelming support across the continent for the UK to remain. Why does Europe feel its union is stronger with the UK in it? Steve Bloomfield speaks to Yanis Varoufakis and Radek Sikorski to find out.