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Britain’s security services have expressed fear that the end of lockdown will see a surge in attacks by lone wolf terrorists radicalised online during the Wuhan virus pandemic in the wake of Sir David Amess’s killing.

Sir David Amess MP’s suspected killer has been named as Ali Harbi Ali by Whitehall officials speaking to the press, who say they have identified him as the son of a man who worked for Somalia’s government. 

LONDON (AP) – Leaders from across the political spectrum came together Saturday to pay tribute to a long-serving British lawmaker who was stabbed to death in what police have described as a terrorist incident.

The Metropolitan Police force’s Counter-Terrorism Command has declared the stabbing murder of Sir David Amess MP a “terrorist incident”, with “a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism” currently suspected.

Sir David Amess, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Britain’s governing Conservative Party, has been stabbed multiple times at a constituency surgery, according to reports.

LONDON (AP) – British health officials said Friday that an estimated 43,000 people may have been wrongly told they don’t have the coronavirus because of problems at a private laboratory.

Paedophile policeman Farooq Ahmed has been dismissed from the Greater Manchester Police force following his conviction for multiple child sex offences. 

Former Labour MP Claudia Webbe has been found guilty of harassment after threatening to throw acid at her boyfriend’s female friend.

LONDON (AP) – The British government waited too long to impose a lockdown in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, missing a chance to contain the disease and leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, a parliamentary report concluded Tuesday.

LONDON (AP) – Ireland’s foreign minister has warned that British demands risk a “further breakdown in relations” with the European Union ahead of talks this week aimed at resolving the impasse over the Brexit agreement. Simon Coveney posted the remarks

Tyson Fury put a decisive end to his three-bout trilogy with American knockout artist Deontay Wilder with a devastating stoppage of his own, in what has been hailed as one of the greatest heavyweight contests of all time. 

Britain’s increasingly green-obsessed Prime Minister has assured young people they have “every right to be angry” with their elders about climate change in Milan.

Sir Keir Starmer, the “uber woke” leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, said that is is “time for a female Bond” following Daniel Craig’s last outing as the iconic British spy in No Time to Die.

Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was booed as a “war criminal” in Northern Ireland ahead of her inauguration as the first woman Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast.

New WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk hopes a contractual rematch against Anthony Joshua will take place in his native Ukraine — although Joshua’s promoters want another British bout to maximise revenue.

Johnson’s government is counting on vaccines to do the heavy lifting against the virus, supplemented by voluntary “common sense” behaviour.

LONDON (AP) – Slumped helplessly on the ropes, Anthony Joshua greeted the final bell — and what he knew was the end of his second reign as world heavyweight champion — with a wry smile.

Boris Johnson’s government plans visas for 5,000 foreign drivers to meet demand, despite coronavirus lockdowns having put many British people out of work  — with a senior Tory MP suggesting Afghans be used.

The United Kingdom is currently suffering severe gas shortages. And I know just the person who could have sorted it out, if only people had listened to him…

Parents in Wigan, England, have been left fearful as male migrants hosted in a local hotel are accused of roaming the community harassing underage girls and filming them through schoolyard fences.

The number of 100-year-olds in the United Kingdom hit a record high in the year to mid-2020, despite the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. 

Former British defence minister Johnny Mercer has warned that Boris Johnson’s government has evacuated some Afghans “we really should have”, while many deserving cases have been abandoned.

A frustrated Boris Johnson plans to press Joe Biden over his failure to act on a pledge to ease travel restrictions on British citizens, months after Britain did the same for American citizens.

Police have been filmed protecting Insulate Britain climate activists from angry motorists as they blocked the M25 motorway once again.

France has pulled out of a planned defence summit with Britain amid an ongoing row between Paris, London, Canberra, and Washington D.C. over submarines.

Britain’s grotesquely overpaid, inexcusably unproductive GPs have a message for the nation: “Here is our collective middle finger. Sit on it and swivel!”

Scottish Government minister Humza Yousaf is furious with the media for sharing a video of him falling off a scooter and almost landing on his face while racing through the Scottish Parliament building.

The French government is seething over Australia’s decision to drop a troubled multi-billion French submarine deal in favour of collaboration with Britain and America, describing it as “treason”. 

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – France would have known Australia had “deep and grave concerns” that a submarine fleet the French were building would not meet Australian needs, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Sunday after the contract’s cancellation set off a diplomatic crisis.

England’s Court of Appeal has reversed a High Court decision restricting the use of trans drugs on children, with “detransitioners” worried the ruling may have put “children as young as 10” on “a pathway to sterilisation” again.

Australia said Saturday it was noting with regret France’s recall of its ambassador over the surprise cancellation of a submarine contract in favour of a U.S. deal.

An Iraqi asylum seeker has received a short sentence for raping a woman in Swansea, Wales, and will have to serve two-thirds of it in custody before being released on licence and deported — maybe.

Illegal migrants who make it into Britain by obtaining legitimate visas and then overstaying are estimated at 64,000 a year, dwarfing the headline-grabbing boat migrant influx. 

United Nations representative Rossella Pagliuchi-Lor has urged British politicians to “consider keeping your borders open” and criticised pending government legislation against illegal immigration.

A member of the Rochdale grooming gang complained about his treatment in Britain, saying that he is barely “surviving” on state benefits.

Afghan interpreters airlifted to Britain are having to be guarded because of “Taliban sympathisers” among the evacuees, reports have revealed.