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A combination of high taxes and constrained supply sees petrol at £1.48 a litre ($7.60 a U.S. gallon) for the first time. 

Soaring taxes, cuddling up to China, and treating voters with contempt are major problems for Boris Johnson’s government, Farage said.

A veteran Tory was bone-dry in his sardonic questioning why govt wasn’t simply cutting taxes to help families survive cost of living rises.

Johnson said the UK should lead Western sanctions against Russia, even if his approach is at odds with Zelensky’s advice on handling Russia.

Johnson told the house “I’m sorry” in the wake of the Gray report, but switched immediately to a combative tone when facing Starmer.

While Boris has been accused of making ‘red meat’ giveaways, he clearly is not wounded badly enough to consider scrapping a looming tax rise.

Rumours claim the much-anticipated inquiry into lockdown-breaking parties at at the heart of government was set to the published imminently.

Mask mandates are ending in England, the PM said, in a statement which also announced the end of covid passports for large events.

Malik Faisal Akram was known to British spy agency MI5 but had been judged as no longer posing a threat to the public in 2020, reports claim. 

A statue at the BBC headquarters by a prominent British artist who was acknowledged to have sexually abused children has been vandalised.

A million people are calling for a top knighthood for former UK PM, anti-Brexit campaigner, and warmonger Tony Blair to be cancelled.

Emmanuel Macron’s France is making absolutely no effort to help solve the deadly Channel migrant crisis because cooperating with the British so close to an election would not be politically opportune, a report claims.

Despite the galloping developments in trauma medicine London has still defied overall trends with a record year of youth murders.

The traditional fireworks display over the Thames was cancelled for a second year, but with hours to go a secret display has been revealed.

France announced new coronavirus regulations for the coming weeks including compulsory mask-wearing on city streets. 

The video shows a masked man who says he is a Sikh named Jaswant Singh Chail vowing to assassinate the Queen as revenge for a 1919 massacre.

North Britons have been warned against having too much fun at Christmas by the devolved Scottish government’s National Clinical Director.

The media blitz to make sure everyone knows the government wants them to take a booster continues unabated.

An articulated lorry crashed into multiple vehicles and mounted the pavement at Dublin Airport departures Wednesday night.

Tories lost a seat that had been blue for the whole of modern UK political history, with pundits blaming Coronavirus scandals and tax rises.

The UK suffered yet another direct address from the PM Wednesday evening, with Johnson asking the public to get jabbed a third time.

UK’s Boris Johnson has introduced vax passes for English venues and extended other measures, pointing to lockdown Christmas for a second year. 

Stratton resigned hours after footage of her discussing a hotly-contested cheese and wine night, allegedly at Downing Street, emerged. 

Two councillors defected, but somewhat bizarrely both moves came on the same day, in the same local association, but to two different parties. 

London’s busiest shopping street bore witness to what has been described as “disturbing” and “disgusting” antisemitic abuse of Jewish teens celebrating Hannukah this week, prompting messages of condemnation from British political leaders.

Swedens first ever female Prime Minister resigned the same day she was selected after the government lost a key budget vote in the Riksdag. 

Today’s new Swedish Prime Minister lost her first major vote just hours after her appointment, failing to pass her governments budget.

A F-35 fighter jet crashed into the Mediterranean on Wednesday, the pilot safely recovered to UK supercarrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. 

The EU’s eastern frontier with Belarus at the Polish border was the scene of violent clashes Tuesday morning after groups of migrants attempted to force their way across.

Clashes between predominantly Iraqi and Afghan migrants bussed to the European Union’s frontier by Belarus and Polish forces may be repeated as numbers swell at crossing points once again.

UK minister warns Poland border crisis should remain an EU issue, calling it “very, very, very, very dangerous territory”

Schools, businesses, and streets fell silent Thursday morning as the nation honoured war dead on the 103rd anniversary of armistice day.

Belarus is training and arming Afghan and Iraqi fighters to launch “terrorist” attacks against Europe, a one-time senior Belarussian politician now living in exile has claimed.

The European Union without Angela Merkel will be like Paris without the Eiffel Tower, gushing Eurocrats told the outgoing German leader on Friday as she attended what ought to be her last ever EU Summit.

Ali Harbi Ali, charged with murder and preparation of terrorist acts after killing of a British lawmaker had his trial date set for March.

A document inadvertently published by the British government before being hastily deleted reveals some lessons officials learnt from the coronavirus pandemic, including “deep set reverence” for government authority, apparently regardless of political affiliation.