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Politico Europe reports: Boris Johnson insisted Donald Trump wasn’t trying to “overthrow the constitution” after riots by his supporters against the 2020 U.S. presidential election result on Jan. 6, 2021. The former British prime minister, out plugging his new memoir, said the former U.S. president managed the successful transfer of power to President Joe Biden — despite contesting the result …

The Independent reports: Liz Truss stormed off stage at an event to promote her book after a banner featuring a lettuce was unfurled behind her as part of a stunt by a campaign group. The former prime minister, who lasted just 49 days in office, was addressing an audience in Suffolk on Tuesday when the banner, emblazoned with the vegetable …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Guardian reports: Rishi Sunak has called a surprise early election for 4 July in a contest that will see Keir Starmer try to take power for Labour after 14 years of Conservative-led government. The prime minister announced the election will be in the early summer in a high-risk move for the Conservative party as it trails 20 points behind …

The Independent reports: A senior Conservative MP has apologised after revealing his involvement in a Westminster honeytrap sexting scandal, which targeted a minister and fellow MPs. William Wragg had leaked colleagues’ numbers to a man he had met on the gay app Grindr, after becoming scared over sending intimate pictures of himself to the user. Speaking to The Times, he …

Politico Europe reports: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party is on track to win fewer than 100 seats in the next election, with Labour likely to score a landslide victory, a new poll suggests. A seat-by-seat analysis based on a survey of 15,000 voters sees Sunak’s governing party winning in just 98 constituencies compared to Labour’s 468, the Sunday …

Politico Europe reports: In 2015, it was Donald Trump who took aim at the U.K. capital as a place where “police are afraid for their own lives,” sparking national outrage. Now, it’s a homegrown party amping up fear of crime in London. The Conservatives posted a campaign social media video claiming London was “teetering on the brink of chaos … …

Reuters reports: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party is set for an electoral defeat on a par with its heavy loss to the Labour Party in 1997, according to a YouGov opinion poll published in the Telegraph newspaper. Ahead of an election expected later this year, the poll predicted Labour was on course to win 385 seats in parliament …

ABC News reports: A member of Britain’s House of Lords has acknowledged that she repeatedly lied about her links to a company that was awarded lucrative government contracts to supply protective masks and gowns during the coronavirus pandemic. Underwear tycoon Michelle Mone said that she had made an “error” in denying connections to the company PPE Medpro, and regretted threatening …