British PM puts EU withdrawal bill on hold as UK awaits word from Brussels on possible three-month Brexit delay. London, United Kingdom – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has scored a political victory by convincing the UK’s divided parliament to back a Brexit deal for the first time in two years of political turmoil. …
‘I cannot stand by as good, loyal moderate Conservatives are expelled.’ Amber Rudd said Saturday she was resigning from the British Cabinet and quitting the Conservative Party because of how Boris Johnson is dealing with Brexit. The secretary of state for work and pensions attacked Johnson’s decision to kick out 21 senior Tories — …
The new prime minister is a shape-shifter. Is he going to play the ideologue, or the opportunist? After eighteen years in political office, and a lifetime with his eyes on the prize, Boris Johnson has become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Defeating Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in the …
Activists say widening acceptance of LGBT people stands in sharp contrast to rise in hate crimes against the community. London, United Kingdom – Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of central London for the United Kingdom‘s largest LGBT pride parade. Shops and restaurants gave out colourful badges, bracelets and flags …
Egyptian authorities say the artefact was stolen, a claim Christie’s auction house denies. A 3,000-year-old quartzite head of Egyptian “boy king” Tutankhamun has been auctioned off for almost six million dollars in the UK despite a fierce outcry from Egypt that claimed the piece was likely to have been removed from the country illegally. Christie’s …
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is wading into the United Kingdom’s political maelstrom days before he is set to embark on his first state visit there, saying Boris Johnson would make an “excellent” prime minister and calling Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, “nasty.” In an interview Friday with the …
Major fumbles have left British leftists ill-equipped to help guide their country. Three years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and two weeks after it was supposed to have left, Prime Minister Theresa May returned to Europe this week, hat in hand, to ask for a …
Three parliamentarians from Britain’s ruling Conservative Party are breaking from the ranks to join the Independent Group, a centrist coalition started on Monday by defectors from the opposition Labour party. The three lawmakers, who are all women, announced their split from the Conservatives in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Theresa May. …
Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, the entire Conservative Party: When did British politics become such a farce? Political theater, well managed, could actually have helped the Brexit debacle. Even by Brexit’s shambolic standard, this week has been a doozy. First, on Monday, a member of parliament incensed by the delayed Brexit …
We’re on a path to the worst sort of Brexit: no plan, no transition period, and a U.K. financial crisis for which we’re totally unprepared. Worried by gyrating stock markets? Spooked by the ten year anniversary of Lehman’s collapse? Time to stop fixating on emerging economies like Turkey, or Trump’s …
US president’s time with the queen ‘kept to a bare minimum.’ LONDON — Prince Charles and Prince William refused to meet U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania on their visit to the U.K, according to the the Sunday Times of London. Queen Elizabeth II was left alone to receive the Trumps …
‘Let us be serious and worthy of our people,’ Emmanuel Macron’s office says. France pledged on Sunday to stand by the G7 summit statement disowned by Donald Trump and took a swipe at the U.S. president by declaring that international cooperation could not depend on “fits of anger” or “little words.” Apparently …