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Kemi Badenoch polled as a favourite for grassroots Conservativers, but she won’t be the next PM after Tory MPs voted to eliminate her.

Tom Tugendhat has been knocked out of the running to be the next Prime Minister of the UK, leaving four in the race to replace Boris Johnson.

Five MPs vying to replace Boris Johnson as Tory leader and Prime Minister engaged in a lacklustre but sometimes testy debate that ignored immigration, law and order, and free speech issues on Sunday. 

Bill Gates-backed media darling Penny Mordaunt MP has once again drawn criticism for muddled positions on transgenderism and even faced accusations of not telling the truth over her stance on people being able to self-identify their gender in Friday evening’s Conservative leadership debate.

Former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost has received backlash for telling Conservative MPs to rally around Liz Truss, the Remain-voting former Libeal Democrat. 

Five candidates now remain in the race to replace Boris Johnson after Brexiteer Suella Braverman was eliminated on Thursday.

Nigel Farage has endorsed Attorney General Suella Braverman in the contest to replace Boris Johnson for her hardline Brexit stance.

The Labour Party will reportedly table a motion of no-confidence to oust Boris Johnson before the Conservatives can select a successor.

Conservative Party bigwigs looking to take over from recently ousted Boris Johnson have suddenly begun pushing for “red meat” tax cuts, despite previous talk of having to hike charges over COVID.

Boris Johnson has been forced out as leader of Britain’s governing Conservative (Tory) Party by an internal coup, and his time as Prime Minister will soon be over – but what do his potential successors have to offer a weary public?

The UK should begin sending weapons to Taiwan in order to bolster their defence against an invasion from China, the foreign secretary said.

A ruling by a Russian judge may conceivably be the reason the UK was forced to ground a plane scheduled to take illegal migrants to Rwanda.

Ireland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has openly aired the idea that Conservative Party MPs could rebel against the UK Prime Minister as relations between the two countries sour.

Prime Minister Johnson’s government is expected to unveil legislation allowing government ministers to amend aspects of the Northern Ireland Protocol of his Brexit deal with the European Union, amid ongoing disruption of intra-UK trade. 

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The Ukrainian foreign minister says he and Britain’s defense secretary have discussed the plight of the three foreign fighters sentenced to death by pro-Russian separatists.

Two Britons and a Moroccan captured fighting alongside Ukrainian forces having been sentenced to death by the Russia-backed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

The British government is slashing the amount of foreign aid money it routes through international organisations such as the United Nations, outraging leftist politicians and activist charities.

The British government has indicated that it may finally scrap the Northern Ireland which leaves the European Union in control of much trade and regulatory policy in the province, with or without the EU’s agreement.

American lawmakers have demanded that the UK not rip up a post-Brexit agreement with the EU over Northern Ireland.

The founder of the Azov Regiment, a neo-Nazi militia formally integrated into the armed forces of Ukraine, accused Russia on Monday of using chemical weapons in Mariupol, a southern port city that has become the focal point of the war between the two countries.

Dozens of people have reportedly died after a missile strike hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk. (Warning: Contains graphic image.)

Britain said Wednesday that it is withdrawing its judges from Hong Kong’s top court because keeping them there would “legitimize oppression”.

Moscow has accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of being the most “active participant” in the “race to be anti-Russian”.

The United Kingdom has warned Communist China it will face sanctions if they send weapons to Russia to aid in the invasion of Ukraine.

Britons who volunteered with Ukraine’s foreign legion could have been responsible for a missile strike that killed at least 35 people.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian who was detained in Iran for almost six years, left Tehran after the UK settled a debt to Iran.

A court in Northern Ireland has ruled that a post-Brexit protocol cutting the region off from the United Kingdom is constitutional.

The British government has warned members of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces believed to have gone to Ukraine to fight will “be in an awful lot of trouble” and urged them to return.

A loaf of bread is set to cost 20 per cent more in Britain as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine causing a global wheat shortage.

Officials have now warned citizens against going to Ukraine to volunteer, pointing out that it is in fact illegal under UK law.

Australia confirmed Tuesday it will be supplying Ukraine with $50 million in missiles, ammunition and other military hardware to help them repel the ongoing Russian invasion.

Australia is sending “lethal aid” to Ukraine to help it repel Russia’s invasion, with Canberra adding a warning Sunday for its own citizens to stay away from the fight.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she supports Britons going to Ukraine in order to take up arms against Russia.

The British government has urged any citizens still in Ukraine to flee if they can or “stay indoors, away from windows” amid a large-scale Russian offensive. 

The UK and the EU will impose new sanctions on Russia following Vladimir Putin recognising separatist regions of Ukraine as sovereign.

The PM and UK govt ministers have labelled Russia’s claims on shelling that struck a school in Ukraine a “false flag operation”.