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On June 23, 2016, British voters decided in a referendum that the UK should leave the European Union.

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As Britain spirals down to the status of a third-world country through sheer government incompetence and economic mismanagement, Hong Kong can expect a huge wave of returnees sooner rather than later.

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  • Lee Anderson was suspended as a Conservative MP in Parliament after he claimed that Islamists had ‘got control’ of London Mayor Sadiq Khan
  • On Monday, Anderson accused the governing Conservatives of stifling free speech. He said he had been disciplined for speaking his mind

May said on Friday she will not stand for re-election, ending a 27-year career in parliament marked by a tumultuous spell leading the country as it tore itself apart over Brexit.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that a Conservative lawmaker was wrong to say the mayor of London is controlled by Islamists, and denied his party tolerates anti-Muslim prejudice.

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UK PM Rishi Sunak will meet Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill and Democratic Unionist party leader Emma Little-Pengelly at Stormont on Monday, his Downing Street office said.

Labour’s Sadiq Khan also said ‘we should come together’ with those who share our common values to defend those values against threats, and called for the opposition party to ‘speak up’ on the benefits of immigration.

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Sadiq Khan said Britain’s departure from the EU reduced the size of its economy by 6 per cent, basing his statement on a report he commissioned from consultants Cambridge Econometrics.

Reform UK – formerly Brexit Party and whose leader admires Donald Trump – rails against immigration, net zero energy policies, ‘nanny state’ regulations.

The French socialist, a founder of the EU’s single currency project, served as president of the European Commission from January 1985 until the end of 1994 – three terms longer than any other holder of the office.

The City of London Corporation, which runs the British capital’s ‘Square Mile’, said its New York outpost opened on Monday, with the Washington office set to open on Tuesday

The Brexit figurehead has in recent weeks teased the idea of rejoining the struggling ruling Conservative Party, which he quit 30 years ago in protest over its stance on Europe.

Britain’s embattled Conservative government unveiled a raft of measures aimed at cracking down on record levels of regular migration, including raising the minimum salary threshold for a skilled worker visa.

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Critics of Farage, who led the right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), fear he will be able to air his political views unchallenged on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

Cameron’s six years as prime minister coincided with a remarkable thaw in Sino-British relations but times have changed, say geopolitics analysts.

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During Cameron’s 2010 to 2016 administration there was a ‘golden era’ of UK-China cooperation, something PM Rishi Sunak described as ‘naive’ last year amid tensions with Beijing.

Representatives of AI companies and political leaders will meet at Bletchley Park in England next week. Sunak said China had been invited to the summit but attendance was not guaranteed.

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Britain’s Rishi Sunak hits a leadership milestone this week. He’s got a mountain to climb to retain power in a general election expected next year.

The protester shouted “true democracy is citizen-led” and “politics needs an update” before scattering glitter over Keir Starmer’s head.

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Charles had hoped for a state visit to France to have been his first as king, but a March trip was postponed due to tense protests over Macron’s pension reforms.

Britain has for decades been grappling with an undersupply of homes, and a government statement said the rule change would enable more than 100,000 homes to be built by 2030. The move has angered green campaigners.

The deal will help New Delhi become a bigger exporter, while the UK gets wider access for its whisky, premium cars and legal services.

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Nearly 4 million working days have been lost to industrial action in the UK over the past year as doctors, teachers and postal workers fume at real-terms falls in pay of more than 9 per cent.

India’s Tata Group plans to build a 40-gigawatt battery plant that will be able to meet nearly half of Britain’s battery production needs by 2030, analysts say.

Losses in all of the constituencies would be the first time in 55 years that a government has been defeated in three by-elections on the same day.

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership has been seen as a bulwark against Chinese dominance in the region, although Beijing has applied to join.

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