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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.

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.

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.

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.

The Facebook scandal over selling customers’ deepest secrets for huge amounts of cash has accelerated signature-gathering efforts for a “Privacy Act” initiative on California’s ballot.

MPs have voted against a Labour amendment aiming to water down Brexit and keep the UK tied the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights by making it part of UK law.

MPs and Lords have voted Nick Clegg’s How to Stop Brexit the best non-fiction book by a parliamentarian published this year in a secret ballot.

LONDON (AP) — British Parliament officials said Wednesday they will review plans to silence Big Ben during four years of repairs after senior politicians criticized the lengthy muting of the beloved bell. When the repairs were announced last year, officials

Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich told reporters Monday that if moderate House Republicans reach out to Democrats they could form a parliamentary majority that could break the current gridlock in Congress.

Israeli educator Miriam Peretz — a bereaved mother of two fallen IDF soldiers — was an eyewitness on Wednesday to the aftermath of the deadly terrorist rampage next to the British Parliament building in central London, the Hebrew news site nrg reported.

Members of Parliament have hit out at House of Commons Speaker John Bercow after he effectively banned U.S. President Donald J. Trump from speaking in Parliament.

United Kingdom Home Secretary Amber Rudd has promised to spend millions to provide all Jewish schools and synagogues in the country with security guards.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s parliament should completely vacate its historic Palace of Westminster building for six years in order to allow a multi-billion pound major renovation project to take place, a committee of lawmakers said on Thursday. The neo-Gothic fronted

The Brexit vote was advisory so lawmakers in parliament should decide whether Britain should leave the European Union, more than 1,000 prominent British lawyers said in a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron. The signatories, which include senior lawyers, said

Britain’s opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said he regrets supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, and that comments by former London Mayor Ken Livingstone asserting that Hitler supported Zionism were “wrong.”

The Independent reports: Ukip’s only MP, Douglas Carswell, is the least friendly and trustworthy in the House of Commons, a social media survey has found. The newly appointed Shadow Health Secretary, Diane Abbott, was the most patronising, the same survey found. Artios, an

EDINBURGH/LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron was rebuffed in parliament on Wednesday when members of his own party joined with opposition lawmakers to block government plans to allow shops to open for longer on a Sunday. In sometimes

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Joint List, comprised of various Arab parties, said it “rejects and condemns the incitement led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu” in the wake of the Attorney General’s instruction to open an investigation into Arab Members of

The day after MPs agreed to move out of Parliament while much needed repairs are carried out, it has been revealed that the temporary venue being lined cannot be used for purposes not sanctioned by sharia law. The Palace of Westminster is

British actor Idris Elba has elevated an American conversation about diversity in Hollywood to an international level.

As Members of the British Parliament filed in to a three hour debate yesterday on whether or not Donald Trump should be banned from the United Kingdom, all sides were in agreement on one thing: the non-binding debate, which would

Friends of Tulip Siddiq, the MP leading the campaign to ban Donald Trump from Britain, have said she will be “tearing” his reputation to “shreds” during today’s parliamentary debate on the proposed ban. The Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn

The British parliament is set to debate today whether to ban U.S. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump from entering the UK. The debate comes after 570,000 people signed an online petition calling for Mr Trump to be refused entry after he

A gay Member of Parliament has written an open letter to boxer Tyson Fury — the heavyweight champion of the world known for his socially conservative views on homosexuality, women and abortion — proposing they meet for a “training session”.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s lower house of parliament voted on Tuesday against cutting the voting age for a referendum on EU membership, potentially blocking any further moves to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote. Members of parliament voted 303 to