UK: Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick Finalists to be Cons. Party Leader

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Two right leaning former goveministers will go head-to-head in the final round of the race to become the next leader of the UK’s Conservative Party after former Foreign Minister James Cleverly was eliminated.

Wednesday’s vote by Conservative lawmakers saw Kemi Badenoch receive 42 out of 120 votes, ahead of Robert Jenrick with 41 votes. In a surprise twist, Cleverly, who won the previous round of voting, was eliminated from the race, with 37 votes.

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#UK: Four Seek Conservative Party Leadership

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Mel Stride will announce his candidacy in the Conservative leadership race to replace Rishi Sunak on Friday.

The former work and pensions secretary says he has the backing of the 10 MPs needed to progress to the next stage of the contest.

He becomes the fourth person to throw their hat in the ring after former Home Secretary James Cleverly and former Home Office ministers Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick.

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#UK: Former PM Johnson "Forgot Passcode" Of Phone Wanted In COVID Investigation

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Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages are yet to be received by a COVID inquiry because he is said to have forgotten the passcode for his old phone.

The former prime minister’s spokesperson said Johnson still wants to cooperate with the inquiry and did not deny being unable to recall the code.

Johnson stopped using the device in May, 2021, after receiving security advice once it had emerged that his phone number had been accessible online for at least 15 years.

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#UK: Bank of England, Parliament Consider New Crypto Regulations

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The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority plan on consulting on new rules for stablecoins later this year, Cunliffe said. Last May the bank said it will regulate stablecoins that could have an impact on financial stability. Meantime, the Financial Services and Markets Bill, which will help regulators put in place rules for crypto and bring stablecoins under existing payment legislation, is nearing its final stages in Parliament.

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#UK: PM Sunak Under Investigation For Gov't Contracts To Wife's Company

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Rishi Sunak is now under investigation by Parliament's standards commissioner over an alleged failure to declare an interest. The PM recently failed to declare his wife's shares in a childcare agency, when asked about his decision to hand government subsidies to them.

The ethics committee is looking into Sunak's wife's financial interest in Koru Kids, which is set to benefit from new government childcare policies. 

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UK: Liberal Democrat's Murderous Rants On Facebook Uncovered

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A Liberal Democrat candidate in the upcoming local elections made shocking statements in a number of Facebook posts promoting violence and a desire to “kill” before she was involved with the party.

Nikita Primrose Sykes, who is the party’s candidate in the North Yorkshire seat of Skelton West, said “I really really want to kill something” among numerous other violent social media statuses, posted a decade ago.

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#UK: Labour Party Leader Says Some Women Have Penises

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UK Labour Party Leader Sir Keir Starmer has said some women, as many as one and every 1000 - have a penis this weekend, in an interview that is likely to cause friction within the Labour Party.

The Holborn and St Pancras MP has repeatedly found himself struggling to define what a woman is since taking over the role of Opposition Leader in 2020. Taking a definitive stand on the side of transsexual activists will likely invite withering criticism from conservatives, as both parties prepare to head into elections. 

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#UK: Parliament May Consider Ban On Domestic Wood Burning

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An influential parliamentary committee is likely to consider arguments for a ban on domestic wood burning in urban areas during this sitting of parliament, owing to concerns over its growing impact on air quality.

Philip Dunne, the chair of the environmental audit committee, said: “Air quality is something we are likely to look at before the end of this parliament. It’s a serious issue.”

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#UK: Former Labour MP Headed To Prison For Fraud

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Former MP Jared O'Mara has been jailed after being convicted of six counts of fraud. The disgraced politician was convicted alongside his former chief of staff of plotting to submit fake expense claims. This is how he went from obscurity to criminality via Westminster.

As one observer put it, Jared O'Mara looked "like a rabbit in headlights" when he was declared Sheffield Hallam's new MP in the early hours of 9 June 2017.

His sudden catapulting into politics that election night surprised his party, his defeated rivals and even himself.

In 2019, he was banished from the labor party after allegations of abuse, and homophobic posts to social media.

But worse was to come as a former aide alleged that when he was an MP, O'Mara build taxpayers over  £52,000 for jobs that did not exist and employees that did not exist. Now he is headed to prison after a jury convicted him of fraud, after using the funds to fuel an extensive cocaine habit.

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#UK: PM Sunak fires Conservative Party Chair After Tax Probe

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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has fired Conservative Party Chair Nadhim Zahawi after an independent investigation into his tax affairs found a serious breach of the ministerial code.

“Following the completion of the Independent Adviser’s investigation – the findings of which he has shared with us both – it is clear that there has been a serious breach of the Ministerial Code,” Sunak said in a letter to Zahawi on Sunday.

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#UK: Bills Filed To Strip Royal Titles From Harry, Meghan

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Amid growing fury at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix documentary, a new bill in parliament today would, if passed, grant Charles III and politicians greater powers to remove ranks of nobility. 

Labour Party MP Rachael Maskell tabled the Removal of Titles Bill to target a different royal, the Duke of York, over his association with late American paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

But the Private Members Bill could also be used to remove the Sussex dukedom from Harry and Meghan. 

It came as a Tory MP for Sussex demanded the couple finally lose their titles due to their 'lack of respect' for the Royal Family and the UK.

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#UK: PM Sunak Wants More Criminals Jailed

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Rishi Sunak has said he wants to see more people jailed as part of a crackdown on crime, after he opened up about fearing for his children’s safety.

The Prime Minister said his eldest daughter reaching the age where she wanted to walk to school by herself “brings home” the danger women and girls face.

He vowed to curb crime so that “my kids and everyone else can walk around safely”.

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#UK: Conservative MP Highlights Harrassment of Gays Working In Parliament

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Gay men working in parliament are the “most vulnerable” to harassment and abuse but are “absolutely terrified of coming forward” because of the taboo which remains around homosexuality, a senior Conservative MP has said.

Former immigration minister Caroline Nokes said women receive “all the column inches in the press” before “this ‘and also’ [approach] when it comes to the young gay men’.”

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#UK: New Prime Minister Vows Stability And Unity For UK And His Party

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Rishi Sunak, who is the new UK prime minister, has issued a plea for unity in the face of a "profound economic challenge".

He won the Tory leadership contest after rival Penny Mordaunt failed to secure enough backing from MPs.

In his first speech, Sunak said bringing his party and the UK together would be his "utmost priority."

Sunak, 42, will be the UK's first British Asian prime minister and the youngest ,in more than 200 years.

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#UK: Wales Considers Cutting Number Of MPs It Sends To London

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Voters will have one last chance to give their views as commissioners revise plans to cut the number of Welsh MPs in the UK's parliament.

The number of MPs representing communities in Wales would be cut from 40 to 32 under proposals.

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#UK: Truss Resigns As Prime Minister

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Liz Truss has dramatically resigned as the UK's prime minister after just 45 days on the job, the shortest tenure of any British prime minister in history.

The PM said her successor will be elected in a leadership contest to be completed in the next week.

Conservative Party MPs urged Truss to go after her government was engulfed by political turmoil, following the ditching of most of her economic policies.

Truss was elected by the party's membership in September, but she lost all authority within her party after a series of policy u-turns.

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#UK: Labour MPs to Oppose Lifting Of Fracking Ban

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Labour Party members in parliament have pledged to ban fracking “once and for all” as an opposition motion, and if elected in the next general election, calling it “an unjust charter for earthquakes."

The party is working to bring forward an opposition day motion to maintain the ban on the controversial gas extraction method, after Prime Minister Liz Truss said she would lift the ban as part of her energy security plan.

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#UK: Truss U-turns On Plan To Lower Corporate Taxes, Fires Chancellor

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Prime minister Liz Truss has abandoned one of the key planks of her “mini” Budget, ditching plans to keep the corporation tax rate down. And she has fired chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng after just 38 days on the job, after his announcement of her plan caused panic in the London stock market.

“People across this country rightly want stability,” she said, adding: “It is clear that parts of our ‘mini’ Budget went further and faster than markets were expecting.”

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#UK: Scotland's Parliament May Consider Petition To Ban Meat By 2040

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The Scottish Parliament’s Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee will consider a new petition that calls for a countrywide meat consumption ban by 2040.

Roger Green submitted the petition. He is a member of Vote With Your Fork, a campaign that seeks to move the world towards a meat-free future. The petition sets out environmental reasoning behind the idea, alongside concerns about animal welfare.

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#UK: Tax Cut Pledge Blamed For Temporary Pound Collapse

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The market’s verdict on the £220 billion policy blitz set out by UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was swift and devastating Tuesday. 

His pledge to cut taxes was blamed by financial experts for the sudden drop in the UK currency, the Pound, against the US dollar. The currency recovered it's value later in the day, a fact not generally reported by the mainstream media.

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