“The campaign is over and the work begins.” There’s a new man in Number 10 Downing Street. And his name is Boris Johnson. Officially announced by Dame Cheryl Gillan on Tuesday afternoon shortly after midday, Boris Johnson has been named as the new UK Prime Minister. He succeeds Theresa May, who stood down from her […]

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He’s full of hot air, etc… Yes, it’s another political hit in the form of a giant inflatable blimp that takes to the sky to haunt all those who witness it. Following on from such classics as the Donald Trump Baby Blimp and the giant Minion that caused havoc on the Old Swords Road in […]

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US/UK relations going well, then. Having lashed out at outgoing UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday, US President Donald Trump has zeroed in on Kim Darroch. Darroch, currently acting as the UK’s official ambassador to the US, was referenced in Trump’s tirade on Monday in especially dismissive terms. “I do not know the ambassador, […]

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“You couldn’t but feel sympathy for her as she comes to this stage.” Well-known and respected broadcaster Tommie Gorman has hit out at the treatment of outgoing UK Prime Minister Theresa May by her political contemporaries as “tacky”, “vulgar” and “unnecessary”. In an emotional press conference on Friday, May announced that she would be stepping […]

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The prime minister lasted six days less than Gordon Brown

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She does not believe the UK would not be “truly sovereign” under the proposed deal. House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has quit her post over the British government’s approach to Brexit, saying “I no longer believe that our approach will deliver on the referendum result”. In a resignation letter, the MP for South Northamptonshire said she was […]

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