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”.
LONDON (AP) – Queen Elizabeth II will formally open a new session of Britain’s Parliament on Thursday, with a speech giving the first concrete details of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to do with his commanding House of Commons majority.
The debate over legislation that would offer religious minorities fleeing Muslim states citizenship on the grounds of “religious persecution” began Monday in India’s Parliament.
A poll which predicted Theresa May’s shock reverse in the 2017 snap election predicts her successor Boris Johnson will win a 68-seat majority in December — but top officials warn a hung parliament remains a “very real possibility” and that Brexit is in danger.
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.
MPs have approved the recommendation from the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to suspend Labour’s Keith Vaz from the House of Commons following an inquiry into his “coke and rent boys” scandal.
The United Kingdom has failed for a third time to leave the European Union on a date set by its political leaders, just the latest instalment in a saga of delays and broken promises in the near three and a half years since the country voted in favour of Brexit.
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.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson could push for a snap election if the European Union backs a Brexit delay to January 31st, 2020.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to lead Britain out of the European Union at the end of this month hit another roadblock Monday when the speaker of the House of Commons rejected his attempt to hold a new vote of lawmakers on his Brexit divorce deal.
Footage has emerged showing an anti-Brexit mob hounding Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg and his young son as they walk home from the Palace of Westminster.
(AP) — British lawmakers have voted to postpone a decision on whether to back a Brexit deal with the European Union, throwing a wrench into government plans to leave the bloc at the end of this month.
(AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Parliament that his new Brexit deal can heal the rift in British politics and unite warring factions.
LONDON (AP) – British lawmakers are holding their first weekend sitting in almost four decades to vote on whether to approve Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal with the European Union and finally let the UK leave the bloc at the end of this month.
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has said it is still “possible” to agree on an exit agreement “this week”.
The United Kindom Parliament is reopening Monday after a short suspension, the new session being commenced with colourful traditional ceremonies and a speech by the monarch.
The Westminster Parliament was suspended Tuesday evening, potentially closing a period of bitter acrimony over whether the longest session in British history should end, an argument which ended up in the UK Supreme Court last month.
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.
As the mainstream media pushes the narrative that anti-Brexit MPs are being endangered by “inflammatory” language concerning their “surrender” to the EU, left-wing activists have hanged effigies of Tories from a bridge.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has hit out at the Conservative government after the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament was unlawful, calling for the prime minister’s chief advisor to be sacked.
Prominent anti-Brexit activist and lawyer Jolyon Maugham has admitted that there is a “flaw” in the Benn Act which could allow a no deal Brexit on October 31st. Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May had agreed a withdrawal treaty with the EU,
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”.
Boris Johnson’s government will use all legal means available to deliver Brexit on time, according to reports, as the tug of war over Brexit between Britain’s anti-referendum result Parliament and the minority, pro-result government rages on.
My prediction is that in a few weeks’ or months’ time we’ll look back on this era in our political history as of one of unfathomable lunacy and near-total irrelevance.
The highest court in Scotland found Wednesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s planned prorogation of Parliament is lawful and can proceed unhindered.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Britain’s Parliament is “on the brink of wrecking any deal” his government might be able to make with the European Union on Brexit terms.
A member of the London Assembly representing the left-liberal Green Party was arrested for blocking traffic during street protests against Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue (temporarily suspend) Parliament ahead of the Brexit deadline.
Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has criticised Remainer MPs for accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of triggering a constitutional crisis by suspending Parliament before Brexit day, asserting, “no harm ever came from respecting the will of the voters”.
The EU loyalist Best for Britain group appeared to invoke the fate of the beheaded King Charles I after Queen Elizabeth II agreed to prorogue (temporarily suspend) Parliament for a few weeks before the Brexit deadline.
British actor Hugh Grant exploded on Boris Johnson on Wednesday after the British Prime Minister announced that he would suspend the country’s parliament in order to negotiate a Brexit deal without intervention from remain MP’s.
Remainer Parliamentarians have been in hysterics over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement that his government will suspend parliament in the autumn, with Europhile MPs saying it will give them less time to activate plots to stop Brexit.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused Remain-backing parliamentarians of “collaborating” with their “European friends” to stop Brexit.
The Remain-backing Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has vowed to “fight with every breath” to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from proroguing parliament to ensure a no-deal Brexit is delivered by October 31st.
54 per cent of Britons want the Prime Minister to deliver Brexit “by any means” necessary, even if he has to temporarily suspend Parliament to stop MPs from cancelling or delaying its October 31st deadline.
The UK’s governing Conservative Party have had their parliamentary majority reduced to just one seat after losing at a special election to the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats, supported by two other small parties who did not run candidates to give them a better chance of success.
Tory Remainers have sketched out an extraordinary plot to embroil the Queen in their efforts to thwart Brexit, by having her travel to the next EU summit and plead for it to be delayed.
