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Labour Party strongholds in the U.K. are being targeted by both the Brexit Party and the Conservative Party, both of which hope to capitalize on voters’ disaffection over Brexit. CBC | World News
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Jury finds Elon Musk did not defame U.K. diver with ‘pedo guy’ tweet
Elon Musk did not defame a British cave explorer when he called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet, a Los Angeles jury found Friday. CBC | World News
Read More »As U.K. election poll predicts Conservative majority, Labour can’t shake its most vexing problem: its leader
With a new poll predicting the biggest Conservative majority in the Dec. 12 U.K. election since the Thatcher era, Labour’s chances of unseating Prime Minister Boris Johnson are growing bleaker by the day and are not helped by the one factor that has dogged the party throughout the entire Brexit crisis: the unpopularity of its leader. CBC | World News
Read More »Bodies of victims found in U.K. truck repatriated to Vietnam
The bodies of 16 of the 39 Vietnamese who died when human traffickers carried them by truck to the U.K. last month were repatriated to their homeland on Wednesday and have been taken to their families. CBC | World News
Read More »U.K. police arrest man in connection with Vietnamese truck deaths
British police arrested a 23-year-old man from Northern Ireland on Friday as part of their inquiry into the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people found in the back of a truck near London last month. CBC | World News
Read More »Johnson, Corbyn square off in 1st debate ahead of early U.K. election
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn squared off Tuesday in the first live televised debate of the U.K.’s election, each trying to spark a lackluster campaign to life. CBC | World News
Read More »U.K. media calls Prince Andrew’s sexual misconduct rebuttal a PR disaster
British media on Sunday slammed Prince Andrew’s effort to rebut claims that he had sex with a teenager who says she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein, branding his televised interview a complete public relations disaster. CBC | World News
Read More »U.K. political parties targeted by large-scale pre-election cyberattacks
Both the U.K. Conservative and Labour parties were targets of large-scale cyberattacks on their digital platforms Tuesday just weeks before a national election. CBC | World News
Read More »U.K. election campaign officially underway
Unofficial campaigning has been gearing up for weeks, but the five-week U.K. election campaign is now underway. CBC | World News
Read More »Long-serving Labour Party MP Lindsay Hoyle elected speaker of U.K. House of Commons
Opposition Labour legislator Lindsay Hoyle has been elected speaker of Britain’s House of Commons and will take on the role of refereeing the next parliamentary instalment of the country’s exit from the European Union. CBC | World News
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