Controversial UK government plans for deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda cleared their final hurdle on Monday (22 April), after a marathon tussle between the upper and lower chambers of parliament lasting late into the night. Controversial UK government plans for deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda ...
The UK parliament is expected to vote in favour of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill on Tuesday (16 April), which sets the ambitious target of the UK achieving smoke-free status by 2030, a decade ahead of the EU target. Conservatives set for heavy UK election defeat to opposition Labour, survey...
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces the most dangerous moment of his premiership this week, when he is due to appear before a COVID-19 inquiry and must win a crunch vote in parliament on his plan to revive a policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. Just over a ...
However, subsequent votes inTuvalu(1986 and 2008),Australia(1999) andSaint Vincent and the Grenadines(2009) rejected republicanism. The most recent realm to turn republic,Barbados, did so without a referendum, just by a parliament vote.
After a move to make a vote on fracking a confidence matter, scenes in parliament descended into chaos as Conservative lawmakers were confused over whether they were obliged to vote in line with the government. The motion by the main opposition Labour Party was defeated by 326 votes to 230 ...
That question should be asked of the same people, who then elected Liz Truss, an equally incompetent politician, as his successor, with consequences so disastrous that the members of parliament in her party saw to it that she was kicked out within 50 days. There are two ways to ensure ...
“divorce agreement”) in which the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020. Regardless of the relocation agreements, the UK has begun talks with Denmark on the possibility of sharing an offshore processing centre in Rwanda. This comes after Denmark passed a law in June allowing it to transfer ...
“Brexit is not an end but a beginning,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson, told the UK parliament just hours before it approved his EU trade deal. Johnson said there would be no bonfire of regulation to build a “bargain basement Dickensian Britain” and assured Europe the UK would remain the...
The Labour Party has officially won enough seats to have a majority in Britain’s Parliament, as vote counting continues. The party had won 326 of the 650 seats by 5 a.m. Friday, meaning leader Keir Starmer will become prime minister and can form a majority government. “We did it,”...
Polls show Farage, who has run for Parliament seven times but never won, has a comfortable lead in the constituency. “We’re getting poorer. Our productivity is going down. Our public services are failing. Britain is broken and the population explosion is the main reason why,” Farage told...