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Politicians elected for these reallocated seats will in limbo – unable to take up their place until the UK and its MEPs leave//Crimson Tazvinzwa
Almost three years after voting to leave the European Union, Britons will go to the polls to elect new MEPs after Brexit was delayed. Continue reading UK to send MEPs to European Parliament – but for how long?
Jack Renshaw: Neo-Nazi paedophile who plotted to kill Labour MP jailed for life
What happened?
A neo-Nazi was jailed for life today for plotting to murder his MP. White supremacist Jack Renshaw, 23, a convicted paedophile, gave a Nazi salute as he was sentenced. He had bought a 19-inch knife to kill Labour MP Rosie Cooper and a female police officer who was investigating him for child sex offences. He searched online “how long to die after jugular cut” and researched Mrs Cooper’s schedule as he planned the attack. Continue reading UK: How paedophile neo-Nazi’s terror plot was uncovered
I have written to Theresa May to say that talks on finding a compromise agreement for leaving the European Union have gone as far as they can; Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn
It was the moment we all knew would arrive sooner or later. On Friday morning it emerged that cross-party talks on Brexit had finally collapsed.
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, the leaders of two very different forces in British politics, failed to reach a compromise deal after six weeks of negotiations, and, it seems, we are back to square one. Continue reading Brexit cross-party talks fail over ‘weakness and instability’ of Theresa May’s Government
Boris Johnson Is Slim, Trimmed and Ready to Fight for Power
The meeting was tense and at one point Theresa May was visibly upset. But by its conclusion, forced by her own party, she’d agreed to set a timeline to quit as U.K. prime minister.
The premier spent more than an hour in her office behind the Speaker’s chair in the House of Commons, locked in discussions with a panel of the most powerful rank-and-file members of Parliament in her Conservative Party as she sought to buy time for her failing leadership so she could get her Brexit deal approved by the chamber, which has thrice rejected it.
After the rest of the panel — called the 1922 Committee — had filed out, May and its chairman, Graham Brady, hammered out a joint statement. Under the terms, May will try one last time to get the Brexit deal approved in a vote in Parliament at the beginning of June. After that, regardless of the outcome, she’ll meet again with Brady to chart her departure. Continue reading Theresa May Told Her Time Is Up, Got upset
