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The government is reportedly considering plans to end reducing sentences by up to a third for criminals who confess to their crimes. The report comes after a teenaged cop killer had his sentence reduced due to his age and because he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

A former Labour MP who had multiple convictions for assault was spared jail despite being found guilty of possessing the worst kind of child abuse pornography. On Friday, Judge Mr Justice Edis at Ipswich Crown Court handed 59-year-old Eric Joyce

The Home Office has formally requested support from the Ministery of Defence to handle the increasing flow of illegal boat migrants after dozens more made it across the English Channel on Saturday.

A school in England has become the first in Britain to make wearing a mask a mandatory part of the uniform, despite the government advising against masking children.

Home Secretary Priti Patel reportedly backs suggestions to send in the Royal Navy to tackle the growing migrant crisis in the English Channel, after a record 235 illegal aliens landed on Thursday.

Germany’s Europe minister has complained that Britain is not being “realistic or pragmatic” in Brexit negotiations, with British negotiators insisting on full sovereignty at the end of the transition period.

A Parliamentary committee has determined that it was a “mistake” not to introduce border or isolation restrictions on travellers from Europe from mid-March, with up to 10,000 cases being imported that directly contributed to the scale of the pandemic in the United Kingdom.

British taxpayers reportedly paid out £1.5 million to police Black Lives Matter UK and counter-protests on the weekend of June 13th to 14th.

A bakery has defended its decision to fire a branch manager after she was caught taking cash and paying for goods for elderly customers with her own bank card.

The High Court has ruled against convicted terrorist Mohammed Zahir Khan who demanded to be released early from prison after he claimed that the government’s new rule which mandates terrorists serve the majority of their sentences was a breach of his human rights and discriminated against Muslims.

Brexit supporters from across the political spectrum have been named as future peers, but notably absent is the Remain-backing John Bercow, breaking with tradition that former speakers are offered a seat in the House of Lords.

China’s ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming has said that the Communist state will no longer recognise the British National (Overseas) passport as a valid legal document, suggesting that his country will block the three million Hong Kongers eligible for one from leaving the city.

One Metropolitan Police Services officer suffered a head injury when he tried to break up a fight at an illegal mass gathering for the Muslim celebration of Eid in East London.

The British government can challenge the Court of Appeal’s decision to allow Shamima Begum to enter the UK to challenge her loss of citizenship.

British grime artist Solo 45 has been jailed for 24 years after imprisoning, torturing, and raping four women.

The UK is reportedly in talks with Five Eyes allies the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand about resurrecting the defunct ‘Critical Five’ group which would focus on tackling the West’s dependency on China in supply chains.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has predicted that President Donald Trump will “tear” Joe Biden to “pieces” because the oft-confused Democratic presidential candidate “doesn’t know where he is”.

A 94-year-old woman who lived through World War Two was denied a loaf of bread because she could only pay in cash.

Senior Conservative MPs are calling for the repatriation of jihadi brides and their children, citing a human rights charity which claims many are victims of trafficking.

The UK’s first post-Brexit international trade deal is set to be signed with Japan within a matter of weeks, according to reports.

John Bercow is reportedly set to be the first former speaker of the House of Commons to be denied a peerage in 230 years.

Enfield Council is believed to be the first elected body to ban meat at its events in order to combat so-called manmade climate change.

The anti-Brexit ‘One Nation’ movement in the Tory Party has been reborn, and it aims to stop the Conservatives from becoming too right-wing by convincing Boris Johnson to “embrace his liberal instincts”.

Nine new cases of legal action against Labour over breaches of privacy rules and data protection — related to the ongoing antisemitism scandals — could allegedly cost the party “millions”.

The formerly libertarian prime minister has imposed a raft of new restrictions in the promotion of food deemed unhealthy, treating advertisements for ‘junk food’ like nudity or violence by banning them on television before 9 pm.

Two of the four British nationals-turned Islamic State jihadists dubbed ‘The Beatles’ have admitted to beating Western hostages, as well as being jailers of American aid worker Kayla Mueller.

British jihadists are pretending to be reformed, using the Islamic concept of “taqiyya”, in order to facilitate an early release from prison into the community where they pose a fresh risk to the public.

Britain’s defence minister has said that Islamic State remains “the most significant terrorist threat to the United Kingdom and our interests”.

A think tank has warned that British universities have become “worryingly dependent” on foreign income, especially from China, with two-thirds of revenue raised from charging Chinese students going to some of the UK’s top research institutes.

One of the UK’s leading advertising executives has backed Boris Johnson’s Nanny State assault on “junk food” by pushing for a 9 pm “watershed” of advertising food deemed unhealthy.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has promised to make the Home Office “more diverse” and “more compassionate”, with department staff set to be forced to takes courses on the history of race and migration.

Iain Duncan Smith, the former leader of the Conservative Party, has called for an urgent “alliance of the free world” to stand up to China’s authoritarian regime.

The report criticised the govt for failing to look into the possibility of Russian interferrence — a claim the government has rejected.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that “some serious apologies are due” after a preview of a report found there was no Russian interference in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.

British police struggled to shut down an event attended by 3,000 people near Bath, south-west England — another anti-lockdown dance party to take place during what has been labelled the summer of illegal raves.

Brussels is reportedly aghast that the prime minister’s senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, is telling British negotiators to stick by Brexit red lines and reject unfavourable compromises.