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Damien McElroy

Damien McElroy

London Bureau Chief
Damien McElroy is London bureau chief at The National. He is a former foreign correspondent who has covered politics and conflict across Europe, the Middle East, the US, Africa and Asia. Before joining The National in 2017 to oversee the London editorial operation, he worked for The Sunday Times and Telegraph titles as an editor and roving reporter. He started his career in China and has a degree in finance.
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Demonstrators outside the International Court of Justice at The Hague on Wednesday. EPA
ICJ classes climate change as 'urgent and existential threat'

Global warming is 'unequivocally caused by human activities', says UN court

UKJuly 23, 2025
Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrives in Downing Street for a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. PA Wire
UK imposes sanctions on migrant smuggling bosses

London creates world’s first financial penalties regime targeted at gangs

UKJuly 22, 2025
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, centre, condemned the Gaza Humanitarian Fund's aid system as a 'grotesque spectacle'. EPA
UK's Lammy warns Gaza crowding is worse than prisons

David Lammy says failing to stop the killing has brought Israel into 'disrepute'

UKJuly 22, 2025
The reasons for a group of Iranian protesters taking to the streets in London on Sunday remain urgent. Damien McElroy / The National
CommentWhy Iranian anti-regime protesters are out on the streets of London now

With a crackdown under way inside Iran, oppositions groups outside the country are feeling the need to regroup

CommentJuly 22, 2025
An artist's impression shows a four-acre public park as part of plans for the former Wimbledon Park Golf Course. Photo: All England Lawn Tennis Club
Wimbledon to triple in size as expansion clears courts

Grand Slam location to add about 40 qualifying courts at cost of £200m

UKJuly 21, 2025
Police officers detain a protester supporting Palestine Action under the statue of Nelson Mandela, in Parliament Square, London. EPA
Palestine Action ban challenged after arrests soar

UK an 'international outlier' after hundreds detained following June's government order

UKJuly 21, 2025
Marwan, Kopf links gedreht (Head turned left)
From Syria to Mayfair via Berlin: Marwan's blockbuster exhibition at Christie's

More than 150 of the exile's works, many from regional collections, have been reunited for a spellbinding show

UKJuly 18, 2025
Britain's King Charles III meets staff on a visit to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Reuters
King Charles hails Oxford's internationally renowned Islamic centre

British monarch celebrates four decades of institution first backed by Ruler of Sharjah

UKJuly 17, 2025
A woman pleads with traffickers to be let on to a small boat as it arrives to collect people in thick fog in Gravelines, France. Getty Images
Europe's current policies won't 'stop the boats'

Continent's governments have been reactive, rather than proactive, in dealing with migrants crisis

CommentJuly 15, 2025
Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport in west London. Steve Parsons/PA Wire
Heathrow expansion plan triggers airlines fury

Asking the carriers to foot most of the bill for a $14bn upgrade has not gone down well

UKJuly 12, 2025
Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and chairman of Masdar, and Iberdrola’s executive chairman Ignacio Galan. Photo: Masdar / X
Masdar takes joint stake in massive UK offshore wind project

Partnership with Spanish electricity giant powers substantial investments in UK and Germany

BusinessJuly 11, 2025
UK parliament's security and intelligence committee said senior Al Qaeda leaders were benefitting from Tehran's protection from western counter-terrorism. Getty
Iran hosting and protecting Al Qaeda leadership, says UK

Arrangement between terror group and Tehran a factor in 'increased threat' to lives in Britain, says security watchdog

UKJuly 10, 2025
What the date and the pearl industries had in common was the unleashing of natural resources, the sea and the underground aquifers to generate exports that went around the world. Andrew Henderson for The National
UAE history shows it has always dealt with economic headwinds

The Emirates is geared up to take advantage of Trump's disruptive trade policies

CommentJuly 09, 2025
King Charles III and France's President Emmanuel Macron inspect the Guard of Honour during a ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle. AFP
Macron begins state visit to UK amid migrant crisis

Royal welcome as King Charles III hosts French President at Windsor Castle

UKJuly 08, 2025
Keir Starmer speaks to the press at last week’s Nato summit in The Hague. Getty Images
Starmer’s foreign policy wins give his performance a much-needed lift

British Prime Minister's time in Downing Street could be last chance for political system as we know it

CommentJune 30, 2025
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