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Nigel Farage has announced that his weeks-old Brexit Party, which is dominating the European Parliament election polls and is beating the governing Conservative Party in some general election polls, has now surpassed 100,000 registered supporters. 

Former Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has described Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit talks with Labour as a “politically naive” and “doomed to fail”.

New polling for the European Parliament elections shows Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party with more support of Labour and the Tories put together.

The ground may be shifting under the British political landscape as Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, already polling in first place for the upcoming European Parliament elections, has now pulled ahead of the governing Conservative Party in polls for general elections to the House of Commons.

The Conservative Party machine fears coming in sixth place in European Parliament elections on May 23rd, while a study reveals that Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is eating into the Tory vote.

Prime Minister Theresa May’s allies are said to be considering legal action to prevent the 1922 committee of Tory MPs from changing their rules in order to remove her from office.

Senior Tories plan to topple Theresa May from the party leadership if she agrees a Brexit deal subjecting Britain to the European Union’s customs regime, according to reports.

Grassroots Conservative Party chairmen have triggered an emergency meeting to hold a confidence vote in party leader Theresa May — the first time such a measure has been enacted in the party’s 185-year history.

Labour and the Conservatives are said to be closer to agreeing a deal over Brexit after further talks this week.

LONDON (AP) – It’s quiet out there. Probably too quiet. Britain is due to leave the European Union in six months, but you wouldn’t know it from the country’s news headlines or the debates in Parliament.

A pollster for Sky News has predicted that the Tory Party could lose more than 400 seats in local elections, whilst a projection from polling data points to a loss of over 1,000 seats.

What I particularly cherish about Stephen Lawrence Day is the way it captures so perfectly almost everything that is wrong not just with Theresa May’s government in particular but with modern Britain in general, writes James Delingpole.

Theresa May is facing an unprecedented push to remove her as Tory leader, with a petition by local party chairmen having triggered an extraordinary general meeting for a vote of no confidence.

A poll has revealed that 62 per cent of Conservative Party members have said they would vote for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in European Parliament elections while another poll revealed that four in ten Tory councillors will do the same in protest of Prime Minister Theresa May’s failure to deliver Brexit.

Grassroots Conservative Party chairmen are reportedly just a few weeks away from triggering a no confidence vote in Prime Minister Theresa May over her failure to deliver Brexit.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said EU elections will mark the beginning of a new era in British politics and told MEPs in the European Parliament, “I’m coming back. In fact, lots and lots of us are coming back.”

Senior Conservative MPs have launched a ‘Stop Boris’ plan to try and prevent Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister when Theresa May leaves office.

More Tory MPs are joining the anti-Brexit Change UK (CUK) party as the party sinks in the polls ahead of the EU Parliament elections.

Former Cabinet minister Owen Paterson has said that repeated Brexit delays and the end of ‘No Deal’ planning shows Theresa May’s government “was never going to countenance no deal”, in an article describing the process up to now as a “stitch-up”.

Annunziata Rees-Mogg, the sister of European Research Group (ERG) chief Jacob Rees-Mogg who was hailed as Nigel Farage’s “secret weapon” when he unveiled her as a Brexit Party candidate, says she has her brother’s support.

The British government is significantly underestimating the likely impact of mass immigration on future population growth, according to an expert think tank.

Tory MPs who have lost patience with Theresa May’s repeated efforts to delay Brexit, breaking multiple promises along the way, are trying to organise an internal petition to change party rules and remove her as leader.

Mark Francois MP has called for an “indicative vote” on the Conservative Party’s confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May, the Brexiteer writing to the backbench 1922 Committee, “Enough is enough! If she goes by Wednesday we can Leave on Friday.”

Tory MP and leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has condemned Prime Minister Theresa May for making “active choices’ to stop Brexit.

The British government is giving away more money through the foreign aid budget than it is spending on Britain’s police forces, despite the violent crime wave gripping the country.

Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom has described moves by Remain MPs to seize control of the parliamentary timetable and block a No Deal Brexit as a kind of “military coup” without the firearms.

A senior Tory Brexiteer has warned that “up themselves” parliamentarians, led by Remainers from his own party, are launching “a coup against the British people” in order to “destroy Brexit”.

Anti-Brexit Tory MP Dominic Grieve has lost a vote of confidence from his constituency association — but instead of moving to deselect the unpopular MP, party elites want to get rid of the local activists.

Conservative Party MPs are at loggerheads over plans by the British government to possibly call a snap general election, perhaps as early as this week.

On the day when the United Kingdom was supposed to be leaving the European Union, deal or no deal, at 11 p.m., MPs are instead preparing for a third and final vote on Theresa May’s deal with the bloc. What happens next?

Brexiteer heavyweight Boris Johnson has slammed the Government’s lack of “gumption”, accusing it of having “chickened out” on Brexit and urging the Prime Minister to “channel the spirit of Moses in Exodus, and say to Pharaoh in Brussels – LET MY PEOPLE GO.”

LONDON (AP) – British Prime Minister Theresa May was under intense pressure Monday to resign as the price of breaking the country’s Brexit impasse and winning support for her unloved EU divorce deal.

Theresa May could survive the palace coup which appeared to be unfolding at breakneck speed on Saturday night, as the Cabinet ministers who were frontrunners to take over as “caretaker” leaders publicly disavow the plot.

A full-scale Cabinet coup against Prime Minister Theresa May is now underway, according to insiders, with one senior minister claiming she will be “gone in ten days”.

Senior aides to Prime Minister Theresa May believe she is “finished” and want her to “fall on her sword” now and set a date for her departure, in hopes this will allow her to “go with dignity”.

British Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright appeared to threaten heavier regulation of streaming services like Amazon Prime and Netflix to “encourage” them to “reflect and represent” the “full diversity” of the United Kingdom, like the BBC.