KEY POINTS: The FAST party which has a majority of seats was locked out of Parliament this morning. Today's sitting was to swear in MPs after the April 9 election. Under the constitution Parliament must sit within 45 days of…
Read MoreElection results: ‘We’re staking the claim to become England’s third party’, say Greens
The Green Party are aiming to replace the Liberal Democrats as England’s third party after significant gains in the local elections. They won 88 more seats, compared to the Lib Dems’ increase of seven. Yet the Greens are far from…
Read MoreElection results: Party should get in touch if they need me – Labours Andy Burnham does not dismiss future leadership bid
Andy Burnham has not dismissed suggestions he could mount a bid for the Labour leadership in the future, telling Sky News the party should “get in touch” if it were “ever to feel it needed me”. He was speaking after…
Read MoreElection results: Five problems for Keir Starmer as Hartlepool defeat puts party in crisis
After 11 years of Tories in Downing Street, today’s by-election and local elections are a remarkable disaster for the opposition, showing Labour still going backwards. Sir Keir Starmer’s first electoral test has not yet yielded any positive news, with the…
Read MoreUS election: Trump to leave Washington before Biden’s inauguration
US President Donald Trump will leave Washington DC next Wednesday morning (Thursday NZT), just before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration the following day, to begin his post-presidential life in Florida. He will be sent off with a departure ceremony at Joint…
Read MoreUS election: The text that started Donald Trump’s downfall revealed
In the midst of last Wednesday’s violent attack on the US Capitol, a text message with the power to make history was fired off to every Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. At 3:09pm — a little over an hour…
Read MoreUS election: Top Democrat joins calls for Trump’s immediate removal
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is calling on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to remove him from office following Wednesday’s violent assault on the Capitol by the President’s supporters. In a statement Thursday, Schumer said the attack on the Capitol “was…
Read MoreProtests spring up at several statehouses as siege at U.S. Capitol unfolds
(Reuters) – Supporters of President Donald Trump staged rallies on Wednesday outside statehouses in several cities, including Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City that coincided with the storming of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, local news media said.FILE PHOTO:…
Read MoreMarkets shift to price in chance of Democrat Senate wins
LONDON/SYDNEY (Reuters) – The growing chance of Democratic wins in two pivotal Senate contests on Wednesday triggered financial market moves mirroring hopes of more COVID-19-related stimulus and increased regulatory scrutiny of tech companies.A Fulton County election worker puts absentee ballots…
Read MoreUS election: An insurgency from inside the Oval Office
US President Donald Trump’s relentless effort to overturn the result of the election that he lost has become the most serious stress test of American democracy in generations, one led not by outside revolutionaries intent on bringing down the system…
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