Britain

Johnson Speaks To Empty Room At GOP Convention

British tabloid The Mirror reports: Boris Johnson has flown to the US to speak to an almost empty room at the Republican National Convention. Humiliating photos obtained by the Mirror show the former Prime Minister addressing rows of unfilled seats in a hotel ballroom in Milwaukee. Mr Johnson has been scrambling to stay in the spotlight with speeches, newspaper columns …

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New British PM Shares Congratulatory Call With Biden

Via press release from the White House: President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom to congratulate him on his appointment as Prime Minister. The leaders reaffirmed the special relationship between our nations and the importance of working together in support of freedom and democracy around the world. The President conveyed that …

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Election Yields Most Diverse Govt In British History

Reuters reports: Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer will oversee a parliament more ethnically diverse and more female than ever after securing a landslide victory in the election on Thursday that ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Black, Asian and ethnic minority lawmakers will represent around 13% of the House of Commons, up from 10% in 2019, when Britain last …

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King Charles Formally Appoints Keir Starmer As PM

Agence France-Presse reports: Britain’s head of state King Charles III officially appointed Labour leader Keir Starmer as prime minister on Friday during an audience at Buckingham Palace. A photograph released by the palace showed the monarch shaking hands with Starmer, whose party won a landslide election victory. The king earlier accepted the resignation of Conservative leader Rishi Sunak. “The King …

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Cultist Head Of Lettuce Booted From Her Seat As MP

Politico Europe reports: As Britain’s Conservatives woke up to the full scale of their humiliating defeat in the U.K. general election on Friday morning, news emerged from a rural district in eastern England that former Prime Minister Liz Truss had lost her seat in parliament. In many ways, Truss’ ignominious exit is the perfect symbol of this election. She served …

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Cultist Nigel Farage Elected MP In Eighth Attempt

The Guardian reports: Nigel Farage has been elected as the MP for Clacton, finally succeeding in getting a seat in parliament at his eighth attempt. The Reform UK leader’s victory came on a night when the hardline rightwing party surged in support elsewhere, winning four seats by 4am on Friday. In a speech after his victory was announced, Farage served …

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Sunak Resigns As PM Ahead Of Meeting With King

Reuters reports: Britain’s Rishi Sunak said he would meet King Charles to formally resign as prime minister on Friday and would also stand down as leader of the defeated Conservative Party after Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won a landslide election victory. “I have given this job my all, but you have sent a clear signal that the government of the …

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Keir Starmer To Become UK PM In Labour Landslide

The BBC reports: Sir Keir Starmer is set to become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party’s landslide general election victory. Labour is returning to power with a huge parliamentary majority of 174, following a collapse in support for the Conservatives. Sir Keir will be formally appointed by the King at Buckingham Palace later, replacing Tory …

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LIVE VIDEO: British Parliament Election Returns

The Associated Press reports: People throughout the United Kingdom will elect all 650 members of the House of Commons, one for each local constituency. There are no primaries or run-offs, just a single round of voting today, July 4. Britain uses a “first past the post” system of voting, which means that the candidate that finishes top in each constituency …

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Tories Expect Record Landslide For Labour Tomorrow

Reuters reports: Britain’s Conservative Party all-but conceded election defeat to Keir Starmer’s Labour on Wednesday, a day before polling stations even opened, and warned that the opposition party was on course for a record-breaking victory. Opinion polls show the centre-left Labour Party is set for a big win in Thursday’s vote that would end 14 years of Conservative government and …

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Farage Party Worker Busted In Racist, Anti-Gay Tirade

Sky News reports: Nigel Farage says he is “dismayed” after a Reform UK campaigner was filmed saying the Army should “just shoot” migrants crossing the Channel. Party activist Andrew Parker was captured by an undercover Channel 4 reporter posing as a fellow canvasser in Clacton, Essex, where leader Mr Farage is a candidate. Mr Parker also used a racial slur …

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Latest Tory Scandal: Betting On Date Of Snap Election

Reuters reports: Britain’s Conservative Party said on Tuesday it had withdrawn support from two parliamentary candidates who are being investigated over alleged bets placed on the timing of next month’s national election. The escalating scandal, a blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the run up to a July 4 vote his Conservatives are forecast to lose, has also embroiled …

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Assange Released From UK Prison After US Plea Deal

CNN reports:  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge related to his alleged role in one of the largest US government breaches of classified material, as part of a deal with the Justice Department that will allow him to avoid imprisonment in the United States, according to newly filed federal court documents. Assange was …

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New Polls Forecast “Extinction” For Britain’s Tories

Reuters reports: Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday presented a grim picture for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, and one pollster warned that the party faced “electoral extinction” in July 4’s election. The polls come just over halfway through the election campaign, after a week in which both the Conservatives and Labour set out their manifestos, and …

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Sunak: Farage’s Far-Right Party Will Help Labour Win

Reuters reports: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned on Friday that a vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party would hand electoral victory to Labour, after a poll put the right-wing group ahead of Sunak’s Conservatives for the first time. Farage is one of Britain’s most recognisable politicians best known for his decades long – and eventually successful – crusade …

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British PM Apologizes For Ditching D-Day Events Early

NBC News reports: Eighty years after Sir Winston Churchill helped mastermind the D-Day landings, a British prime minister was under fire Friday for leaving anniversary events early to return to the campaign trail of an election he looks likely to lose. Already embattled and unpopular, Rishi Sunak cut short his time in Normandy to fly back to London for a …

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Brexit Leader Nigel Farage Reverses, Will Run For MP

The New York Times reports: Nigel Farage, the pro-Brexit campaigner and serial disrupter of British politics, on Monday announced plans to run as a candidate in Britain’s general election next month, dealing a new setback to the prospects of the country’s embattled prime minister, Rishi Sunak. Mr. Farage last month said that he would not seek a parliamentary seat because …

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UK Poll Shows Continued Falling Support For Tories

Bloomberg News reports: Keir Starmer’s opposition Labour Party extended its poll lead over the Conservatives even as Rishi Sunak’s party unveiled a series of pledges intended to build momentum early in UK election campaigning, YouGov said. Labour was 27 points ahead of the Tories in the survey by YouGov, which was commissioned by Sky News and conducted from May 27 …

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Tories Announce Plan For Mandatory National Service

Reuters reports: Britain’s Conservative Party will introduce mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if it wins the national election on July 4, comprising military or community participation, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday. Young adults will be able to choose between spending one weekend a month volunteering over the course of a year, or take up one of 30,000 spaces …

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Farage Won’t Run In UK Snap Election Because Trump

Politico Europe reports: Nigel Farage will not stand for Reform U.K. in Britain’s snap general election — because he’s more focused on Donald Trump. Writing on X, the leading Brexiteer — whose Reform Party wants to take votes from the Tories on the right — said he will “do my bit to help in the campaign, but it is not …

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