Boris Johnson has warned that the route out of lockdown may face “serious disruption” because of the India variant, just two days before the biggest lifting of restrictions in England for a year. Rising numbers of cases combined with “important unknowns” about the variant, including how transmissible it is, means “hard choices” may have to […]
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A jubilant SNP is celebrating a record breaking landslide victory in Scotland after recording the “highest number of votes, highest number of constituency seats ever, [and the] highest vote share ever in a Scottish election”. “You’d have to go back to 1966 to find an example of a party securing such a high % of […]
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Arlene Foster has announced she is quitting her positions as Northern Ireland’s first minister and leader of the DUP after a surprise revolt within the party. Foster’s official exit as DUP leader on May 28 follows the circulation of a letter of no-confidence in the DUP leader who has come under increasing pressure in recent […]
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The Scottish government has condemned the UK government’s decision to launch a Supreme Court challenge against laws protecting children’s rights that were unanimously passed by Holyrood last month. The SNP leader and first minister of Scotland described the legal action against the children’s bill as “jaw-dropping”. Nicola Sturgeon’s tweet continued: “The UK Tory government is […]
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Police used water cannon on rioters, and charged them with dogs, in Belfast last night (Thursday) after Joe Biden intervened to call for calm following a week of violence in Northern Ireland. The US president joined prime minister Boris Johnson and taoiseach Micheál Martin in trying to still the violence that saw “as many as […]
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The worst violence in almost a decade has flared across Northern Ireland with petrol bombs, car hijackings and vehicle burnouts reported over several nights in Derry, Belfast, Newtonabbey and other loyalist communities. While politicians engage in a blame game and the police warn of being used as a political football, the Belfast Telegraph’s crime correspondent […]
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Alex Salmond has made a dramatic return to frontline politics with the launch of a new political party to strengthen Scotland’s bid for independence. His new Alba party will stand at least 32 “list” candidates in the May 6 elections to try and secure what Salmond called a “supermajority” to secure Scottish independence. The 66-year-old […]
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Nicola Sturgeon has come out fighting against calls for her resignation, declaring she stands by “every word” of evidence given to the Alex Salmond committee. Scottish Conservatives have escalated their demands for the first minister to resign after new leaks from the highly critical report emerged on Friday (March 19). The committee’s report is not […]
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The UK government has pushed back border checks on EU goods entering Britain by a further six months, after being warned by businesses the country is still not ready to implement them. While companies have cautioned that Britain’s port infrastructure and customs systems are not ready for the customs and border checks, the government has […]
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The UK’s international standing has been hammered by the explosive revelations about the Royal Family coming from the Harry and Meghan interview with Oprah Winfrey. The Queen released her address to 54 nations to mark Commonwealth Day only hours before the interview was broadcast in the US, in which the monarch stressed the importance of […]
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