Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Sunday that Iran’s arguments for seizing a British-flagged oil tanker on Friday are “much more right than those of Gibraltar and London, who are indulging in piracy.”
Britain’s Liberal Democrat party elected a new leader Monday, with the successful candidate using her first messages to party members to promise that she would be doing everything in her power to prevent the United Kingdom from leaving the European Union.
Brexit Party MEP for the West Midlands Martin Daubney has said that party leader Nigel Farage could “take down” Boris Johnson.
Junior defence minister Tobias Ellwood has called on the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to recognise the poor state of the Royal Navy when they take power, in comments that follow a British owned tanker being seized by Iranian gunboats in the Straits of Hormuz.
The United States reportedly offered to organise a joint naval security operation to protect British shipping in the Persian Gulf, but Theresa May turned it down because she “didn’t want to upset the Iranians” or the EU.
European Union officials are predicting an 80 per cent chance that the UK will leave the bloc in a clean break under a Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will chair an emergency security session on Monday to discuss how to respond to Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
Remainers in the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats are set to discuss joining forces to thwart Boris Johnson delivering a no-deal Brexit. Sources have told The Times that the talks taking place this week could include backing a vote
Boris Johnson, Theresa May’s expected successor as Prime Minister, has said Britain must approach Brexit with the same “can-do” spirit as 1960s America.
A government minister who was one of the loudest voices supporting the Trump-critic British ambassador who stepped down from this role earlier this month has also quit, announcing his departure just days before political rival Boris Johnson is expected to become British Prime Minister.
Britain’s payments to the European Union budget swelled by billions of pounds in an “eye-popping” 20 per cent increase to its bloc obligations in the year to March 31st, despite the country having voted to leave the EU all the way back in 2016.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip ‘Remainer Phil’ Hammond will tender his resignation to Theresa May before she herself resigns the prime ministership if Boris Johnson becomes Tory leader.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – In an audio recording released by a maritime security risk firm, a British naval officer can be heard saying that the transit of a British-flagged vessel through the Strait of Hormuz must not be impaired under international law, just before it is seized by Iranian forces.
Only a couple of days now before Britain bids a relieved farewell to the worst prime minister in history. But let’s give credit where credit is due: it wasn’t just Theresa May who was so sublimely useless; it was her entire administration.
A police manhunt is underway after a suspected CS gas attack on a London Underground train left commuters struggling for breath.
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.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – A powerful council in Iran said Saturday the country’s seizure of a British oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz was in response to Britain’s role in impounding an Iranian supertanker two weeks earlier.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump backed the United Kingdom after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, saying the Islamic Republic is in “big trouble”.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that “bully boys” like the next European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, will construct a more federalised European Union.
So now we know what Boris Johnson’s most pressing task when he becomes the United Kingdom’s prime minister next Tuesday: destroy the Electoral Commission.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced the seizure of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
The courts have quashed a huge fine against working-class Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes, which many Remain campaigners had used to discredit the legitimacy of the Leave vote in 2016.
After a week of insisting it merely assisted a vessel in distress by bringing it to a safe harbor, Iran on Thursday admitted its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States – seized a foreign oil tanker and took its crew prisoner.
Britain’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid appeared to side with Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar after a Donald Trump rally where attendees chanted “send her back” — despite having stripped a number of British nationals with foreign roots of citizenship himself.
Prospective next prime minister Boris Johnson will create a Ministry of No Deal to prepare the UK for a clean break from the European Union.
Labour peers are considering whether to hold a no confidence vote in Jeremy Corbyn after the party fired Dianne Hayter for describing the leader’s inner circle as “the bunker” over its refusal to hear criticism on membership, finances, or antisemitism.
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said that Prime Minister Theresa May never told him that the United Kingdom would consider leaving the EU without a deal.
Dozens of British politicians including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and London mayor Sadiq Khan have signed an open letter produced by the Soros-funded HOPE Not Hate group, accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of “blatant racism” against “Congresswomen of Colour”.
The BBC will send “outreach” officers to over-75s to remind them that they will now have to pay to watch television, after it scrapped free licences for senior citizens.
Theresa May’s expected successor Boris Johnson is under fire from the Muslim Council of Britain for past comments suggesting “something about Islam” was responsible for the Islamic world ending up “centuries behind” the West.
