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,”...
Est. 5min 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. Read more »» euractiv...
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. A slogan reading 'Stop The Boats' on the front of a lectern during...
Pro-Israel lobbyists have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members since they were first elected to parliament, Declassified can reveal. The list of recipients includes Prime Minister Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Home...
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. ...
"Investors want stability, and we are now at a stage whereby a Labour majority, while heavily priced in, would probably be perceived by them as a mild positive for sterling, even if only due to the avoidance of a dreaded hung parliament."...
“It’s this bill or no bill. It’s this bill or no chance,” Conservative lawmaker Bob Seely told colleagues before the vote. The bill now goes to the unelected House of Lords, Parliament’s upper chamber, where it faces more opposition. ...
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday he still expects the government to begin deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda in the spring, maintaining the original timeline for the scheme which is currently being debated in parliament. "I'm still...
The UK parliament has finally passed a contentious bill that will allow the government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for their claims to be considered by the East African nation.
The United Kingdom government's highly controversial law about deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda could finally be passed by Parliament this week, but there is no guarantee about when it might produce any results. When the nation left the European Union, it lost the ability to return some asyl...