In a move that would demolish a foundation of the British democratic system, Labour is set to back giving foreign nationals the right to vote in General Elections. Currently, EU citizens and other foreigners living legally in the United Kingdom
Thomas Cook, the world’s oldest tour operator, collapsed in the early hours of Monday morning leaving hundreds of thousands of tourists unable to return home on their booked flights, leaving the government to repatriate travellers.
The British government’s Ministry of Justice has blocked a “culturally insensitive” move to ban cat meat and dog meat, fearing it could offend people in Asian countries.
Police officers are investigating a viral video of a black hijabi woman launching a racist tirade against an Indian bus passenger in Britain’s multicultural capital of London.
Anti-Brexit Liberal Democrat MEPs have written to Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, urging him not to do a Brexit deal with Prime Minister Boris Johnson — as they believe they can still stop it from happening.
John Humphrys, the veteran British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalist who helmed its flagship Today programme for 33 years, exposed the publicly-funded broadcaster “institutional liberal bias” within days of his retirement.
LONDON (AP) – The European Union will insist that border controls be put up along the Irish border if Britain leaves the bloc without a deal and the British government will be responsible for that, a top EU official said.
Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities Dawn Butler has said British businesses “must” pay reparations, and linked U.S. President Donald Trump to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke — apparently forgetting that he endorsed her own party leader.
An English police force has stopped publishing pictures of knives confiscated during weapons seizures to “help reduce the fear of knives”.
British police have announced they will not pursue charges against a Muslim taxi driver who threatened “any mother f**ker wants to convert to f**king Christianity, we’re both gonna f**k you up the a**e” in a viral video.
The Port of Dover is “100 per cent ready” for a clean, no-deal Brexit, according to Doug Bannister, the port’s Chief Executive Officer.
LONDON (AP) – The deputy leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has described an attempt to oust him as “a straight sectarian attack on a broad-church party.”
Mayor Sadiq Khan will close 16 miles of London’s roads on Sunday to celebrate “World Car Free Day”, causing traffic jams and delays around the city.
Labour Friends of Israel will not be holding a stall at this week’s Labour Party conference for fear that their staff will be subjected to antisemitic abuse.
The Scottish Government has finally dropped a “Stalinist” law which would have assigned every child under 18 a so-called Named Person — effectively a state guardian.
Something terrible has happened to the UK news cycle. Has there been a glitch in the space-time continuum? Is it like the final scene of Terminator II being played out in 3-D?
A survey of Britons has found that millennials are the least happy out of all age groups, with the baby-boomer generation being the happiest.
Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a pilot programme which would see women who have committed “lower-level, non-violent offences”, such as thieves and shoplifters, avoid jail in favour of receiving mental health and substance abuse support.
Iraq War architect and controversial former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has taken aim at Dominic Cummings, a one-time senior figure in the pro-Brexit campaign who now advises PM Boris Johnson in Downing Street, calling him a “quasi-anarchist”.
David Cameron, the notionally conservative former prime minister who lost the EU referendum — and his office with it — has denounced President Donald Trump as “protectionist, xenophobic, misogynistic” in his memoirs, and expressed his bitterness that the Islamic State caliphate which sprung into being during his premiership was crushed on the U.S. leader’s watch.
British manufacturing has received a boost as Brexit-backing billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe confirmed his brand new 4×4 will be built at a plant in Wales.
Brexit Party MEPs have criticised Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament as a “huge mistake” because it has united Remainer MPs from different parties around the common cause of stopping Brexit.
John Longworth, the Director-General of the British Chambers of Commerce turned Brexit Party MEP, has hailed a guarantee from Britain’s biggest insulin supplier that there will be no shortages of the medication if the country makes a clean, no-deal break with the European Union at the end of October.
France and Finland have told the UK that talks will be “over” and the UK should prepare for no deal unless Boris Johnson submits alternatives to the withdrawal treaty — however, the European Parliament have said they are willing to support yet another Brexit delay.
The Electoral Commission has finally conceded that Remain campaigners broke electoral rules on joint spending during the EU referendum and issued fines.
Poland’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has urged his country’s expatriates to “seriously consider returning to their homeland” after Brexit.
The European Union already has the best possible Brexit deal to serve their interests — the one they handed to Theresa May to get past Britain’s Parliament in 2018 — so it is perhaps little wonder the response to Boris Johnson attempting to rebalance things in Britain’s favour have been met with incredulity, dismissiveness, and now petulance.
Jeremy Corbyn has said that if Labour wins the next election, he would renegotiate a Brexit deal even softer than Theresa May’s withdrawal treaty and would “give the people a final say” in a second referendum where the options would be the soft Brexit deal versus remaining in the EU.
Nigel Farage has warned that the humiliation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson by the “pip-squeak prime minister of Luxembourg” during Brexit talks was a sign of the bad faith the EU plans to have with the UK if the country accepts the withdrawal treaty, saying now is the time for a “clean break Brexit”.
Britain’s top trade envoy said Wednesday that she expected to strike a free trade deal with Australia within months of leaving the European Union.
