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UK local elections: How London turned from blue to red
May 11, 2022 08:49Even the wealthiest enclaves of the British capital turned against the Tories recently. What has made the city a Labour redoubt – and is its dominance more of a menace than a boon?
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UK local election results were messy. Now Boris Johnson’s future is on the line
May 09, 2022 07:44A heartland slump and hundreds of seat losses in UK's local elections will put new pressure on the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but his opponent, Keir Starmer, may also face criticism after failing to deliver a knockout.
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Boris Johnson under renewed pressure after damaging local election losses
May 07, 2022 04:13Conservative MPs and council leaders questioned UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership, demanding action to tackle the cost of living crisis and rebuild trust in the wake of the Partygate scandal after a damaging series of losses across the “blue wall” in Somerset, Kent, Oxfordshire and Surrey.
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UK trade deal with Israeli regime sends a clear message: Apartheid is rewarded
May 05, 2022 15:44Without conditionality on human rights or a mechanism for accountability, how can an enhanced trading relationship be understood by Israeli regime as anything other than support for its violations and war crimes?
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Boris Johnson’s defence on COVID risk to care homes hit by new revelation
May 04, 2022 09:02UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim that a lack of knowledge about the asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 put care homes at risk has been further undermined after it emerged he openly discussed the potential scale of symptom-free transmission.
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Boris Johnson, just like Richard Nixon, will be brought down by vanity
Apr 30, 2022 15:16Boris Johnson’s Tories, like Nixon’s Republicans, have become synonymous with falsehood and corruption.
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Top Tory MPs say Boris Johnson should go sooner rather than later
Apr 28, 2022 05:28The problems that have recently engulfed the previous favourite to succeed UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Chancellor of Exchequer, Rishi Sunak – over his wife’s tax affairs, and the fact that he, too, was fined for breaking lockdown rules – are seen as having destroyed his chances of following Johnson into No 10.
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‘Homes for Ukraine’ whistleblower says UK refugee scheme is ‘designed to fail’
Apr 28, 2022 04:57A whistleblower working on Britain’s 'Homes for Ukraine' scheme has revealed that he and his colleagues “don’t know what we’re doing”, and says the scheme has been “designed to fail” in order to manage numbers entering the UK.
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Boris Johnson's Ukraine jaunt and what it says about Britain
Apr 24, 2022 05:15Make no mistake about it, the war in Ukraine has been weaponized by Boris Johnson regime for political gain at home, evidenced in his attempt to make turn Ukraine into some holy cause that will, if it continues along the present trajectory, take Britain and by extension NATO perilously close to direct military confrontation with Russia.
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Offshoring in Rwanda isn’t a ‘dead cat’ to distract from Partygate, it’s just plain inhumane
Apr 21, 2022 01:41In England, two in five people believe that “democracy is not working”, citing a “loss of trust” and “corruption” as the biggest factors. Only 28% trust the national government to look after their interests. Polling in Scotland and Northern Ireland records similarly dismal levels of confidence in the UK executive.