British Parliament

In his first opening of Parliament address as reigning Monarch, King Charles III laid out the priorities of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government.

A researcher in Parliament was arrested earlier this year on suspicion of spying for the Chinese Communist Party, the Sunday Times reported.

The House of Commons declared that Taiwan is an “independent country” as Foreign Secretary Cleverly met with communist leaders in Beijing.

A Chinese spy is suspected of infiltrating a meeting of British lawmakers and exiled Hong Kong dissidents in Parliaament earlier this month.

The statue of Sir Winston Churchill and Britain’s national war memorial were included in a list of “contentious” monuments by Scotland Yard.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, currently under fire from worldwide Anglicanism for moving to bless gay couplings, has claimed Parliament tried to “force same-sex marriage” on the Church of England.

King Charles III has asked Parliament to effectively sideline his woke son Harry and disgraced brother Andrew by amending the Regency Act.

The British constitution says there doesn’t have to be a national election if the PM resigns, but convention suggests there should be anyway. 

Prince Charles will read the Queen’s Speech setting out the government’s legislative programme on May 10th, as the 96-year-old sovereign continues to suffer mobility issues.

British lawmakers ordered a parliamentary investigation into Boris Johnson for allegedly lying about whether he broke lockdown restrictions.

The suspected terrorist accused of murdering Sir David Amess told a court that he killed the Tory MP for voting for air strikes in Syria.

(AP) — British lawmaker Sir David Amess was “assassinated” while meeting constituents last year by a “fanatical, radicalised Islamist terrorist,” a court heard Monday as the accused killer went on trial.

Brexit nemesis Bercow reacted furiously to a report that labelled him as a bully and a “serial liar” in a sizzling 800-word reply.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that children in Scottish schools will be required to still wear facial coverings in class.

Anti-Brexit Lib Dems crashed to fifth place and upstart Rejoin EU scraped together just 151 votes in Thursday’s special election.

Owen Paterson MP has resigned after a trumped-up scandal in which he was accused of bringing parliament into disrepute.

If you want to understand why Britain’s backbench MPs have been so thoroughly useless at holding the government to account, look no further than the appalling case of Owen Paterson.

Mask-wearing has once again become mandatory in Britain’s House of Commons – for everyone except Members of Parliament.

A British lawmaker claimed that Christ’s death on the cross was “assisted” by a “kindly centurion” during a debate on “assisted dying” — as euthanasia is now euphemistically known — in the House of Lords. 

China’s Ambassador to the UK, Zheng Zeguang has been barred from Parliament in response to Beijing imposing sanctions on UK politicians

Boris Johnson will recall parliament in order to debate Afghanistan, which has been described as the biggest blunder “since Suez”.

John Bercow has announced that he will be joining the Labour Party, with some suggesting the defection is a cynical ploy to secure a peerage.

The European Union has apparently suspended efforts to ratify a trade deal with Communist China following a series of tit-for-tat sanctions.

URUMQI, China (AP) – A spokesperson for the Xinjiang region called accusations of genocide “counter to the facts” as China came under more pressure this week over its treatment of the Uyghur ethnic group in the remote border area.

A leading Conservative backbencher has challenged fellow Tory and Home Secretary Priti Patel to adopt an Australian-style solution to Britain’s ongoing illegal immigration crisis.

LONDON (AP) – British lawmakers were voting Thursday on whether to prolong coronavirus emergency measures that have given the government unprecedented powers to restrict citizens’ everyday lives.

A Conservative party Member of Parliament in Britain who formerly worked for Hillary Clinton has blamed Donald Trump for disorder in the U.S. capitol, claiming he “stirred up” the worst in human nature.

With no reliable majority for May’s administration in the House of Commons, and both the Commons and the Lords dominated by politicians who never wanted to leave the EU in the first place, the country was quite literally ungovernable…

A growing number of Conservative Brexiteers are calling for the government to allow more time to scrutinise the EU trade deal before it becomes law, to avoid Brussels catching out London in “some treaty-driven checkmate position” — as it had done to Switzerland — in the future.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union ambassadors were convening on Christmas Day to start assessing the massive free-trade deal the bloc struck with Britain that should kick off next next week when the acrimonious Brexit divorce process finally comes to an end.

Labour’s shadow government minister for legal aid, Karl Turner MP, has said that freedom of speech does not include the freedom to “generally offend.”

The House of Commons has removed the exemption for MPs to drink past the nationwide curfew of 10 pm in Parliament’s bars, amidst widespread public outrage over the apparent double standards for politicians.

A leading Tory MP announced he will refuse to partake in the Black Lives Matter inspired ‘unconscious bias training’ in the House of Commons.

Compulsory “unconscious bias” training for MPs. Could there possibly be a more pointless, frivolous, or insulting way of making Britain’s politicians even more useless or bigger a waste of money than they are already?

Senior staff at the British Parliament have confessed their white privilege and pledged to be “allies” to minorities as the legislature pilots “unconscious bias training” for elected MPs. 

Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, Westminster has been vandalised on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings by Black Lives Matter protesters.