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NEW YORK (AP) — Primped and poised, Siba the standard poodle owned the ring.

Even with the crowd at Madison Square Garden chanting for a popular golden retriever, the statuesque Siba strutted off with best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club on Tuesday night.

Britain’s members of Parliament have voted for the nation to have a snap general election, its third in less than five years, on December 12th. The vote on Tuesday night was the fourth opportunity put before Parliament to approve a snap

Anti-Brexit Members of Parliament are outraged the government wants them to vote more than once on Brexit after they gave the wrong answer the first time — an ironic position given the determined push to have a second referendum on whether to leave the European Union, as one Brexiteer member pointed out Monday afternoon.

A man who deliberately drove his car into several people outside Britain’s Parliament in a bid “to kill as many people as possible” was sentenced Monday to life imprisonment for attempted murder.

If Boris Johnson is a racist, fascist, Nazi what does that make actual racist, fascist, Nazis? This is a question probably beyond the intellectual capacity of the cry-bullies who turned out in London and elsewhere over the weekend to protest Brexit.

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered preparations to be made to end free movement of people with the European Union when Britain is due to leave the bloc on October 31st. Recently appointed by incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson,

The recently elected MEP — whose brother is the noted Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg — told Breitbart London Tuesday that Nigel Farage’s ascendent Brexit Party was holding the government to account for its failures and would replace them if they didn’t deliver Brexit.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are leading the pack to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after the governing Conservative Party held an internal poll of Parliamentarians Wednesday to whittle the list of ten runners down to seven candidates who will go through to a second round. 

British opposition lawmakers failed Wednesday in their latest attempt to ensure the U.K. can’t leave the European Union without a divorce deal.

President Donald Trump arrived at the official London residence of the British Prime Minister Tuesday morning, ready for an afternoon of political talks and a visit to the Foreign Office buildings next door. 

The Brexit Party has been given an 80 per cent chance of getting its first Westminster Parliament seat just two months after foundation by British bookmakers, who have slashed odds on a victory with less than a week to go until the polls open.

In a feat of astonishing timing, leader of the pack of hopefuls to replace Prime Minister Theresa May as the leader of the Conservative party Boris Johnson has been summoned to court over a ‘”political stunt” crowdfunded private prosecution against him over the Brexit referendum.

Prime Minister Theresa May announced her resignation from outside 10 Downing Street Friday morning, stating she would be officially stepping down in two weeks time.

Andrea Leadsom has resigned her position as Leader of the House of Commons, a government cabinet position, citing a series of concerns over Prime Minister Theresa May’s handling of Brexit.

Apparently undeterred by having her so-called withdrawal agreement voted down by Parliament three times in various guises, Prime Minister Theresa May is to attempt pushing it through a fourth time next month.

Thirteen senior Conservatives have written to Theresa May urging her not to agree to Labour’s plans for a customs union with the EU, which they said would be the “worst of both worlds”.

Nigel Farage has revealed he will take his Brexit Party to Westminster to fight the next General Election in order to stop Remainer MPs from blocking Brexit.

“Brexit madness” has overtaken the House of Commons according to one senior MP, warning about the rise in mental health issues among MPs in the wake of Brexit.

Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage has told Breitbart London’s James Delingpole that he is ready to keep fighting for Brexit, and despite the ongoing betrayal of the 2016 vote by the British political establishment he remains upbeat.

The former leader of the Labour Friends of Israel group, Enfield North Member of Parliament Joan Ryan has resigned from the Labour party and joined a new group of centrist MPs — the eighth to do so this week.

Speaking at the launch of the new ‘Independent Group’ of centrist members of Parliament who have now, after much speculation, decided to break away from the Labour Party Chukka Umunna has complained of a broken politics with parties that can’t represent the key political factors of the day.

Members of the Westminster Parliament are once again voting on a Brexit motion and amendments Thursday evening as both the British government, and parliamentary rebels work to keep hold of, or derail the Brexit process.

The British government is working in private to engineer another delay to Brexit, this time a two month period pushing back the legally enshrined March 29th departure date.

British Yellow Vest protestors demonstrated in Westminster Saturday, blocking traffic on Westminster bridge and around Parliament Square while calling for Brexit. 

Members of Parliament opposed to the United Kingdom leaving the European Union are using the pretext of Prime Minister Theresa May’s negotiations with the European Union going badly to suspend the legal date for the nation’s withdrawal from the political power bloc.

An extraordinary week in the United Kingdom Parliament took a dramatic turn Tuesday morning, with reports claiming the Palace was placed under security alert as an intruder attempted to make his way past security. 

The Parliament Square and Whitehall — the streets at the heart of British government were shut down by London police Monday evening due to an ‘incident’ surrounding a suspicious package.

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May used a Commons statement Monday to reject outright calls for a second referendum on membership of the European Union.

The Prime Minister has pleaded with ministers and MPs to support her unpopular Brexit plan ahead of a crunch European Union (EU) meeting on Wednesday.

The presiding officer of the UK’s House of Commons, who banned U.S. president Trump from the building, has been told to resign after a damning report into bullying and harassment in Westminster.

Met boss Sir Craig Mackey is receiving a massive backlash from police veterans and serving officers for his decision to stay locked in his car and watch while PC Keith Palmer was murdered by a radical Islamic terrorist during the Westminster attack in 2017.

The Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police was present at the Westminster terror attack in 2017, but stayed in his car with the doors locked.

The family of PC Keith Palmer, who was killed by a man pledging allegiance to Islamic State, say they have been let down by Scotland Yard and “come below” terrorist Khalid Masood.

Shots were fired outside a Westminster school and three people were injured in a shooting in Brent Monday, as the violent crime wave apparently gripping London continues apace. 

A migrant male who was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after apparently driving his car into cyclists and pedestrians outside the Houses of Parliament has at Westminster Magistrates court.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has urged tough action against the “animals” behind a “terrorist attack” outside London’s Palace of Westminster Tuesday.