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Labour peers are considering whether to hold a no confidence vote in Jeremy Corbyn after the party fired Dianne Hayter for describing the leader’s inner circle as “the bunker” over its refusal to hear criticism on membership, finances, or antisemitism.

The BBC will send “outreach” officers to over-75s to remind them that they will now have to pay to watch television, after it scrapped free licences for senior citizens.

Unelected peers in the House of Lords have passed an amendment which could theoretically block Boris Johnson from suspending parliament so that the UK can leave the EU on October 31st without a deal.

Salih Khater, a 30-year-old refugee from Sudan, was found guilty of two charges of attempted murder after driving his Ford Fiesta at cyclists, a pedestrian, and police officers outside of the Houses of Parliament last year.

Boris Johnson’s allies have claimed that the prospective prime minister is planning to hold another snap General Election by summer 2020.

Tory Party leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson refused to commit to lowering net migration to a post-Brexit Britain.

Tory MP Dominic Grieve has said that the Conservative Party’s grassroots had undergone a “Talibanisation” over Brexit, and claimed that Boris Johnson had “radicalised” over the Irish border issue.

Forty-three Brexiteer Tory MPs are set to vote against any amended EU-approved exit treaty put to the House of Commons, and are urging Boris Johnson to take the UK out of the EU on October 31st without a deal.

Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib has said that the European Parliament “should be abolished” because it “provides the trappings of democracy but serves no such purpose”.

With Brexiteer Boris Johnson likely to become the next prime minister, the last week has seen various groups and political figures announce measures to stop a no-deal exit.

Conservative Party leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to meet with President Donald Trump soon after taking over as prime minister to arrange a limited, short-term trade deal with the U.S., the UK’s first post-Brexit trade deal.

Transport for London (TfL) has imposed £34.50 in green taxes on a vehicle that was part of President Donald Trump’s motorcade during his State Visit to the United Kingdom in June.

Unelected peers in the House of Lords are plotting to prevent the next prime minister from suspending parliament and facilitating a no-deal Brexit.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said Sir Kim Darroch is a “fanatical” Europhile and a “globalist” who should have been replaced after the Trump victory.

Tory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson has said that it is “hard to disagree” with U.S. President Donald J Trump who called outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May’s handling of Brexit a “disaster”.

Chairman of The Brexit Party Richard Tice MEP has warned that Prime Minister Theresa May must be not allowed to appoint the next British ambassador to the United States.

The British Social Attitudes survey has revealed that those professing a Christian faith have fallen to a record low, while more than half of Britons profess no faith and the number of those professing adherence to Islam is on the

U.S. officials have become frustrated with the lack of progress on a free trade agreement with the UK, according to leaked documents seen by The Telegraph.

Ursula von der Leyen has told British lawmakers she “hope[s] you remain” in the European Union, adding that she would not reopen Brexit negotiations.

A Rochdale councillor from the staunchly pro-EU Liberal Democrats has defected to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.

A  Christian doctor has said that he was allegedly dismissed from his job at a government office because he refused to call “any six-foot-tall bearded man ‘madam’,” an employment tribunal has heard.

Nigel Farage has said that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party cares more about the London metropolitan elite than its working-class Leave voters in the north and Wales. On Tuesday, Mr Corbyn announced that his party would be backing a second referendum

A report by the UK’s inspector of prisons has found that one in 50 adult male prisoners identify as transgender or transsexual.

Sir John Major has said that he will take Boris Johnson to court if he tries to suspend parliament to facilitate a no-deal Brexit.

Remain-backing speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has said that a second referendum “is possible” and that there is no reason constitutional why another vote could not reverse the decision made by the British people in 2016. 

Three members of the House of Lords have resigned the party whip over Labour’s ongoing antisemitism scandals, BBC Newsnight revealed.

Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice MEP has said that the UK’s ambassador to the U.S. Sir Kim Darroch “should have offered his resignation” as soon as leaked diplomatic cables revealed his insulting remarks about President Donald Trump.

Jeremy Corbyn has said that the Labour Party would back Remain in a second referendum, rather than back a clean break or the Conservative Party’s soft-Brexit deal.

Brexiteer Labour MP Kate Hoey, who has represented the southwest London constituency of Vauxhall since 1989, announced that she will be stepping down at the next General Election.

Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe was asked whether she thought Nigel Farage would be a good ambassador to the U.S., and in response said: “He’ll be too busy being prime minister.”

A former minister has said there are 30 Tory MPs plotting to stop a no-deal Brexit, as Conservative leader candidate Boris Johnson has said there cannot be any more “fake” Brexit deadlines.

The Church of England has confirmed that it will not challenge the “same-sex” marriages of its parishioners if a spouse changes gender after marrying.

Eco extremists Extinction Rebellion are planning two weeks of assaulting the skies around Heathrow airport to ground flights for up to 16 days in the autumn.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that if the European Union tries to force the City of London into regulatory alignment for financial services, the British can take the recent example of the Swiss, “undercut” the bloc, and, within a year, Paris and Frankfurt would be closed down.

Jaguar Land Rover will start building its next-generation electric car at its Castle Bromwich plant in 2020, sustaining thousands of British jobs.

Two local Labour figures have defected to the Brexit Party, as Labour sinks to fourth place in a recent YouGov poll.