British Parliament

Anti-Brexit Lib Dems crashed to fifth place and upstart Rejoin EU scraped together just 151 votes in Thursday’s special election.

Owen Paterson MP has resigned after a trumped-up scandal in which he was accused of bringing parliament into disrepute.

If you want to understand why Britain’s backbench MPs have been so thoroughly useless at holding the government to account, look no further than the appalling case of Owen Paterson.

Mask-wearing has once again become mandatory in Britain’s House of Commons – for everyone except Members of Parliament.

A British lawmaker claimed that Christ’s death on the cross was “assisted” by a “kindly centurion” during a debate on “assisted dying” — as euthanasia is now euphemistically known — in the House of Lords. 

China’s Ambassador to the UK, Zheng Zeguang has been barred from Parliament in response to Beijing imposing sanctions on UK politicians

Boris Johnson will recall parliament in order to debate Afghanistan, which has been described as the biggest blunder “since Suez”.

John Bercow has announced that he will be joining the Labour Party, with some suggesting the defection is a cynical ploy to secure a peerage.

The European Union has apparently suspended efforts to ratify a trade deal with Communist China following a series of tit-for-tat sanctions.

URUMQI, China (AP) – A spokesperson for the Xinjiang region called accusations of genocide “counter to the facts” as China came under more pressure this week over its treatment of the Uyghur ethnic group in the remote border area.

A leading Conservative backbencher has challenged fellow Tory and Home Secretary Priti Patel to adopt an Australian-style solution to Britain’s ongoing illegal immigration crisis.

LONDON (AP) – British lawmakers were voting Thursday on whether to prolong coronavirus emergency measures that have given the government unprecedented powers to restrict citizens’ everyday lives.

A Conservative party Member of Parliament in Britain who formerly worked for Hillary Clinton has blamed Donald Trump for disorder in the U.S. capitol, claiming he “stirred up” the worst in human nature.

With no reliable majority for May’s administration in the House of Commons, and both the Commons and the Lords dominated by politicians who never wanted to leave the EU in the first place, the country was quite literally ungovernable…

A growing number of Conservative Brexiteers are calling for the government to allow more time to scrutinise the EU trade deal before it becomes law, to avoid Brussels catching out London in “some treaty-driven checkmate position” — as it had done to Switzerland — in the future.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union ambassadors were convening on Christmas Day to start assessing the massive free-trade deal the bloc struck with Britain that should kick off next next week when the acrimonious Brexit divorce process finally comes to an end.

Labour’s shadow government minister for legal aid, Karl Turner MP, has said that freedom of speech does not include the freedom to “generally offend.”

The House of Commons has removed the exemption for MPs to drink past the nationwide curfew of 10 pm in Parliament’s bars, amidst widespread public outrage over the apparent double standards for politicians.

A leading Tory MP announced he will refuse to partake in the Black Lives Matter inspired ‘unconscious bias training’ in the House of Commons.

Compulsory “unconscious bias” training for MPs. Could there possibly be a more pointless, frivolous, or insulting way of making Britain’s politicians even more useless or bigger a waste of money than they are already?

Senior staff at the British Parliament have confessed their white privilege and pledged to be “allies” to minorities as the legislature pilots “unconscious bias training” for elected MPs. 

Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, Westminster has been vandalised on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings by Black Lives Matter protesters.

British parliamentarians overseeing the country’s official petitions process have written to Boris Johnson’s government demanding a real answer to a petition to release a buried report on the ethnicity of grooming gangs.

More than 80,000 people signed an official petition demanding the release of a suppressed report on the ethnic background of grooming gangs over the weekend.

David John Maclean, Baron Blencathra, has urged Boris Johnson to “stand up to the small, militant, transgender fascist lobby” and for “the rights of 32 million real women” in a House of Lords debate.

LONDON (AP) – Britain took a big step towards the European Union exit door on Friday when lawmakers gave preliminary approval to Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson´s EU divorce bill in a decisive vote that broke years of political deadlock over Brexit.

Notorious anti-Brexit activist, Steve Bray, announced that he will give up his protest outside Parliament, which has lasted over two years.

Queen Elizabeth II has unveiled her Government’s legislative programme at the State Opening of Parliament, revealing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ambitions to deliver Brexit, invest in public services, and “lead the way in tackling global climate change”.

Two Members of Parliament have been caught trying to steal valuable items from the Palace of Westminster, where the Houses of Parliament are based.

Former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has dropped any pretence of neutrality on Brexit now he has stepped down, branding it “the biggest foreign policy mistake in the post-war period”.

LONDON (AP) — Long-serving Labour Party lawmaker Lindsay Hoyle was elected speaker of Britain’s House of Commons on Monday, taking up the job with a clear message: I’m not John Bercow.

Boris Johnson has written to Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, to formally accept a third Brexit delay, and to beg the bloc not to delay it again next year.

Anti-Brexit MPs are plotting to install Speaker John Bercow as prime minister of a so-called “unity” government “of all the talents”, according to reports.

The Government is investigating the Remain MPs responsible for the “Surrender Act” which seeks to force the Prime Minister to delay Brexit, over claims it was drafted with the help of foreign powers.

Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s chosen representative in the Brexit negotiations, suggested Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg could end up “on the guillotine” months before the current furore over claims their use of terms like “surrender” and “betrayal” is “inflammatory” and puts the lives of anti-Brexit MPs in danger. 

Historian and broadcaster Dr David Starkey CBE has slammed Remain MPs for the “absurd contradiction” of asserting parliamentary sovereignty in order to deny national sovereignty.

The Speaker of the House of Commons has claimed it would be the same as “robbing a bank” if Boris Johnson declined to ask the European Union to delay Brexit again — but suggested he would be more than willing to break all the rules himself to stop Britain from leaving the EU unless it is “blessed by the House”.

Prime Minister Theresa May has been slammed for allegedly forcibly allocating key Cabinet ministers with aides who are loyal to her.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Channel 4 says that Caitlyn Jenner will deliver its annual diversity lecture at the House of Commons.

A general debate on anti-Semitism has been scheduled for the British Parliament as the opposition Labour Party continues to battle allegations of  “appalling” behaviour against those of the Jewish faith.