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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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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron at a joint security meeting in Toulon, France, on August 29, 2025. Reuters
EU countries are learning how hard defence self-reliance really is

EU countries are rallying to find a way to become self-reliant, but can they really make the hard choices required?

OpinionSeptember 01, 2025
European nations want Iran to account for 400kg of uranium enriched at 60 per cent. AP
European powers trigger snapback nuclear sanctions on Iran

Last-ditch diplomatic talks in next few weeks could still avoid sanctions being reinstated

EuropeAugust 28, 2025
Work at the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children in London. Getty Images
Emirati-funded research delivers 'mini-lung' medical breakthrough

Great Ormond Street Hospital hails innovation using diamonds and 3D printing

UKAugust 26, 2025
Afghans who fled their homeland arriving at the UK's RAF Brize Norton in 2021. Reuters
CommentLondon must show it still has a moral dimension to its asylum policies

UK has reached a point of good and bad migration that Labour needs to confront as the overriding issue

CommentAugust 26, 2025
UN humanitarian affairs chief Tom Fletcher said the famine was caused by 'systematic obstruction by Israel'. EPA
UK condemns Israel's role in Gaza famine as moral outrage

Ministers say situation reached 'new depths' as UN officially declares famine

UKAugust 22, 2025
Israel's Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely speaks in London. Peter Nicholls/Getty Images
UK summons Israel's Tzipi Hotovely for rebuke on settlements plan

Ambassador told London opposes the scheme that splits the West Bank

UKAugust 21, 2025
Ali Shamkhani, left, political adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with his son Hossein Shamkhani. Photo: Supplied
UK targets family fortune of Iranian leader's ally with sanctions

Hedge fund and oil-trading activities banned from the British financial system

UKAugust 21, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday. AFP
CommentTrump has positioned the US as peace broker in Ukraine

The American President has put together the building blocks of a peace process in Europe

CommentAugust 19, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump shake hands after their meeting in Anchorage, Alaska last Friday. EPA
The Trump-Putin summit shows why Europe needs to continue re-arming itself

The transactional basis of US foreign policy going forward is a fundamental reality that cannot be wished away anymore

CommentAugust 18, 2025
Passengers queue to check in bags at Heathrow's Terminal 5. PA Wire
CommentThe UK is losing its millionaires, even if it’s not sure how many

High-profile exits suggest there is a problem, and the government needs to act on it

CommentAugust 04, 2025
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, at the time ruler of Iran, with his wife Farah and their son Reza. Getty Images
Does downfall of the 'Shah of Shahs' hold lessons for regime that deposed him?

In his new book, Scott Anderson looks back at the 1979 revolution in search of parallels with another period of potentially seismic change in Iran

UKAugust 01, 2025
Arora Group chairman Surinder Arora has an alternative, cheaper plan for Heathrow that would include a shorter runway. Getty Images
Battle for Heathrow's future ignited by Indian-born businessman

Self-made Punjabi entrepreneur Surinder Arora has vision starkly different from the existing management

UKAugust 01, 2025
Passengers wait at London's Heathrow Airport, after radar failure led to the suspension of outbound flights across Britain. Reuters
UK airports suspend flights due to major radar failure

Disruption as many departures grounded nationwide

UKJuly 30, 2025
US President Donald J. Trump speaks to the media during a bilateral meeting with British prime minister at the Trump Turnberry golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain, 28 July 2025. President Trump is on a private trip to Scotland to visit his golf courses. EPA / TOLGA AKMEN / POOL
Donald Trump warns Russia of Ukraine sanctions in August

Kyiv welcomes US leader's shortening of previous 50-day deadline for Moscow

UKJuly 29, 2025
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure on the issue of Palestine. Bloomberg
CommentStarmer has run out of road on Palestinian statehood

The UK Labour government is under pressure to follow in France footsteps, but what's holding it back?

CommentJuly 28, 2025
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