Metaphors are a common feature of texts, and they fulfil essential referential, stylistic and cognitive functions. These are some of the reasons why they are interesting from a translational viewpoint. An even greater reason is the fact that selecting translation equivalents for metaphors is often all but straightforward, requiring consideration of a wide spectrum of factors. The aim of this thesis is to account for my English to Swedish translations of metaphors found in three political articles in the UK media. The articles were selected mainly because of their abundance of metaphors, but also since metaphors play an especially important role in political discourse. The metaphors were identified by means of the Pragglejaz procedure and divided into lexicalized and non-lexicalized types, and their translations were described by way of Newmark’s typology of translation procedures. The results show that the two metaphor types were translated in a similar way. Replacement by a standard target language (TL) image was the most frequently used procedure, followed by reproduction of the source language (SL) image in the TL, and for the lexicalized type, conversion to sense. The analysis indicates that there is substantial cultural overlap between SL and TL, but also that, when the aim is to produce an idiomatic and communicatively effective target text, literal translation of metaphors is often impossible or not preferable. Because of the multi-faceted nature of metaphors, and since the study is based on a limited material, it is difficult to draw any definite conclusions. However, the thesis can provide some guidance as to the applicability of different translation procedures in English to Swedish translation of metaphors in political texts and show how different factors affect the choice of procedure.