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LONDON (AP) – Prime Minister Theresa May is set to unveil her new plan to break Britain’s Brexit deadlock – and it’s expected to look a lot like the old plan decisively rejected by Parliament last week.

Theresa May’s government has survived a vote of no confidence by 325 votes to 306.

Theresa May has claimed she will deliver Brexit in the House of Commons, as doing otherwise would result in the British people’s faith in the country’s institutions to fall to “an all-time low”.

Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts has urged the prime minister to call on the Queen to suspend the parliamentary session until Brexit takes effect of March 29th, to deny Remain plotters the opportunity to derail it.

Members of Parliament are holding the “meaningful vote” on Theresa May’s contentious Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union.

Today is the day when Theresa May loses the vote on her Brexit ‘deal’ and is confirmed as the worst Conservative prime minister ever.

Theresa May has admitted that overturning the Brexit vote or re-running the 2016 referendum “would be a subversion of our democracy” in the House of Commons.

Ukrainian lawmakers broke into a massive brawl Thursday during a parliamentary session, continuing a long-held tradition of trading punches  over the issues of the day.

British Prime Minister Theresa May was engaged in a last-ditch attempt to save her besieged Brexit deal Tuesday, meeting with Dutch leader Mark Rutte and Germany’s Angela Merkel after controversially deferring Tuesday’s planned vote in the UK House of Commons to prevent a near-certain defeat.

An extraordinary week in the United Kingdom Parliament took a dramatic turn Tuesday morning, with reports claiming the Palace was placed under security alert as an intruder attempted to make his way past security. 

The gold ceremonial mace which is carried into the House of Common’s debating chamber each day was wielded in the chamber Monday evening, as tempers frayed over Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union.

One of the United Kingdom’s most senior lawmakers has warned cancelling Brexit result or having a second referendum could lead the nation into “social instability”.

A group of British MP’s, seemingly upset at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to appear before the U.K. Parliament, have released a cache of seized Facebook documents. The documents outline many of Facebook’s practices around advertising. 

The scale of the deceit of Theresa May’s so-called “worst deal in history” deal has been dramatically revealed after the government was forced to publish a key legal document by a vote in Parliament.

John Bercow, the speaker of the United Kingdom’s House of Commons has decided the government may be in contempt of Parliament by not publishing the legal advice it revealed over Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal.

Lawmakers from nine countries, including Britain, Canada, and France, were reportedly “furious” after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to not show up at an international committee hearing. A Canadian MP described Facebook as “a high school company collecting adult paychecks.”

Lawmakers from nine countries condemned Mark Zuckerberg for his absence at a recent committee hearing on Facebook, posting a picture of his empty chair to social media.

In an attempt to hold Facebook accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal, the U.K. Parliament has seized a cache of internal Facebook documents from an American software executive visiting the country for business.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly denied requests to appear before UK and Canadian lawmakers in relation to user data privacy breaches.

The Parliament Square and Whitehall — the streets at the heart of British government were shut down by London police Monday evening due to an ‘incident’ surrounding a suspicious package.

Prime Minister Theresa May is to meet with the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee Wednesday as speculation mounts she is to face a vote of no confidence, according to media reports.

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May used a Commons statement Monday to reject outright calls for a second referendum on membership of the European Union.

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

Heavily armed police rushed to Britain’s Houses of Parliament Tuesday morning after a vehicle struck members of the public and crashed into the counter-terror security barrier ringing the building.

Supporters of former Tory leadership favourite Jacob Rees-Mogg have interviewed public relations firms with the hope of boosting a possible bid to lead the party as well as raising a “war chest” of £750,000.

Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali has been found guilty of plotting to commit a terror attack on MPs and police and for making explosive devices for the Taliban.

A man on trial for terrorism charges after being caught with a stash of knives near Parliament and the Prime Minister’s Downing Street office claimed he had a “message” for the UK’s political leaders, a court has heard.

John Bercow, the speaker of the House of Commons, has rowed with prominent Brexiteer Andrea Leadsom, calling the cabinet minister a “stupid woman” in the Commons chamber this week.

UK lawmakers have claimed that social media firm Facebook has not fully answered questions relating to user data privacy.

A pair of sisters and their mother are accused of plotting the UK’s first all-female Islamic State-inspired terror attack on London, spurred on by a fighter in Syria.

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

A petition calling for a referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords will be considered for a debate in Parliament after receiving more than 100,000 signatures.

U.S. tech giant Facebook has responded to an urgent request by the British Parliament that CEO Mark Zuckerberg appear before a committee, replying they would instead send a deputy, states Bloomberg.

Police officers responded to a “suspicious” envelope containing white powder delivered to Britain’s Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London Tuesday afternoon. A spokesman for the Commons said of the investigation: “The Police are currently investigating an incident on the Parliamentary

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.

Brussels bureaucrats, MEPs, and European newspapers have celebrated the government’s Brexit defeat in parliament, claiming the mandate for a clean exit from the European Union (EU) has been weakened.