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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn are preparing to square off in the first televised debate of this year’s election campaign.

Boris Johnson has postponed tax cuts during a speech to business leaders Monday, dropping a key element of the Tory election manifesto.

Two Members of Parliament have been caught trying to steal valuable items from the Palace of Westminster, where the Houses of Parliament are based.

Left-wing Welsh separatists Plaid Cymru have been embarrassed after the niqab-clad Muslim who starred in their election broadcast was linked to antisemitic posts on social media.

The University and College Union (UCU) has declared that anyone can “self-identify” as “black, disabled, LGBT+ or women”.

Uber in France has joined the British branch of the company in introducing a new anti-discrimination button on its popular ride-sharing app

LONDON (AP) – British media have slammed Prince Andrew´s effort to rebut claims that he had sex with a woman who says she was trafficked as a teenager by Jeffrey Epstein, branding the interview a public relations disaster.

Liz Saville Roberts, who leads the Welsh separatist party Plaid Cymru in Britain’s House of Commons, has called for her small country to become a “nation of sanctuary” for the world’s refugees.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has once again promoted himself as a “pro-immigration politician” and refused to commit to reducing it below its current near-record highs.

Hillary Clinton waded into British politics again, saying Brexit is a symptom of ‘problems’ and that the UK is ‘on the path to fascism’.

The Conservatives want to spend £500 million on reopening old railways, failing to mention they closed them in the first place.

Labour is being deserted by its traditional power base as working-class voters are now more likely to support the Conservatives, polls say.

A group of gym members in England have found themselves banned for life, after they used exercise equipment to attack each other in a wild gym fight.

Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, has openly intervened in British politics, telling European Union loyalists who want to stop Brexit: “Don’t give up.”

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, has refused to step aside in another 300 seats, rejecting a last minute ‘deal’ from Boris Johnson.

With election campaigning in full swing for its Dec. 12 election, Britain has informed its European Union partners that it will not name a new commissioner to the EU´s executive arm despite an obligation to do so.

Two-thirds of all so-called unauthorised immigrants in Europe live in just four member states, and by one count there are more illegals in the United Kingdom than any other EU nation, according to new research.

The publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has woken up to Sweden’s bombing epidemic years after Breitbart News. 

D-Day veteran and former British armed forces chief Field Marshal the Lord Bramall KG, GCB, OBE, MC, JP has died aged 95.

Xi Jinping flexed his soft power muscles during a play to bring Greece closer to China’s sphere of influence, when he called for the British Museum to return ancient artworks to Athens.

Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have polled 14 points clear of their nearest rivals, the increasingly hard-left Labour party of Jeremy Corbyn, his best-projected result since the election was called in October. 

A new report from ONS shows that the number of non-EU born foreign workers has climbed to an all-time high in the United Kingdom.

The UK has once again defied the expectations of economists, enjoying the 13th quarter of growth since the 2016 Brexit referendum.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has made defeating unashamedly anti-Brexit parties his primary election goal, announcing Monday he has stood down all candidates in seats won by the Conservatives so not to split the pro-Brexit vote.

A judge has expressed her “abhorrence” at foster parents caring for children taken from an abusive Muslim household, because they Westernised and ate bacon.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has reportedly stepped in to hold together the beleaguered anti-Brexit ‘People’s Vote’ campaign, which has been hit by several controversies including allegations of sexual harassment. 

A primary school in the English seaside resort town of Brighton has banned children from playing the playground game ‘Tag’, claiming the game was “too rough”, and encouraging kids to play with “gentle hands”.

LONDON (AP) – Queen Elizabeth II joined Britons in remembering their war dead, as the country’s political leaders paused campaigning for the Dec. 12 election to take part in a sombre Remembrance Sunday service in London.

Nigel Farage criticised Emmanuel Macron for claiming that NATO is suffering “brain death” because the U.S. is “turning its back on [Europe]”, saying the French president is looking for “any excuse” to build his own “Walter Mitty” EU army.

Animal rights extremists have verbally abused blind people for having guide dogs, claiming the labradors should be “running free in the fields”.