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Marred by two terror attacks during the campaign, Britain's snap general election on Thursday will decide who shapes the United Kingdom's future as it leaves the European Union. Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who came to power without a national vote last year after David Cameron's resignation, called the election three years early after just one year in charge.
Also on Thursday, James Comey, former head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, is due to appear before a Senate committee for the first time. Comey was fired by President Donald Trump in May while leading a probe into alleged Russian meddling in last year's U.S. election.
The pound fell the most in a month on Thursday after the central bank voted to keep interest rates unchanged , an outcome that disappointed those who thought a second policy maker would join Kristin Forbes in calling for higher rates. Sterling then extended its losses as Carney said tighter monetary policy would depend on the "smooth" Brexit that his institution is predicting.
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A protester holds a placard near the Houses of Parliament in London on Feb. 20, 2017. A protester holds a placard near the Houses of Parliament in London on Feb. 20, 2017.
U.S. President Donald Trump should not be afforded the "rare privilege" of a state visit, a British opposition lawmaker said Monday, as Parliament debated a call for Trump's invitation to be downgraded and stripped of its royal seal of approval. The nonbinding debate was called in response to an online petition with more than 1.8 million signatures saying a formal state visit "would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen."
British Prime Minister Theresa May has won the race to be the first foreign leader to meet President Donald Trump in Washington. But her trip to the U.S. capital is anything but a victory lap.
Britain's Prime Minister, Theresa May, leaves Downing Street in London Tuesday Jan. 24, 2017. Britain's government must get parliamentary approval before starting the process of leaving the European Union, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, potentially delaying Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to trigger exit negotiations by the end of March.
Jeremy Corbyn speaks after being reelected as the head of the UK Labour Party, at a party conference in Liverpool on September 24, 2016. The leader of the UK's Labour party visited Syria in 2009 on a trip paid for by a Palestinian rights group and met with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Britain will trigger the formal process for leaving the European Union before the end of March, Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday, putting to rest weeks of speculation on the timing of the move. May outlined her vision for a post-EU Britain at her Conservative Party's annual conference in Birmingham and took the first steps to making a British exit - or Brexit - a reality.
London: On an August weekday evening in Newham, east London, the 67-year-old man in beige chinos and open-necked blue shirt looks out over the glasses balanced on the end of his nose to his adoring audience. Appearing more like an awkward university lecturer than a celebrity, he steps down from the stage into a mob of fans seeking selfies and handshakes.
The British government will set out in the coming week how it plans to shape its relationship with the European Union upon leaving the bloc, Prime Minister Theresa May says. Since taking office in July, May and her Brexit minister David Davis have given little detail about what Britain's future relationship with the EU will look like, saying only they want it to involve curbs on immigration and a good deal on trade.
The British government will set out in the coming week how it plans to shape its relationship with the European Union upon leaving the bloc, Prime Minister Theresa May said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Since taking office in July, May and her Brexit minister David Davis have given little detail about what Britain's future relationship with the EU will look like, saying only they want it to involve curbs on immigration and a good deal on trade.
U.K. Labour Party Lawmaker Chuka Umunna discusses the implications of Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the challenges Brexit may present the financial sector with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua on "Brexit: What's Next?" Ralf Mueller-Rehbehn, co-chief investment officer at AFM, discusses the European eanings season and his thoughts on investing. He speaks with Guy Johnson and Caroline Hyde on Bloomberg Television's "On The Move."
"Is she the new Margaret Thatcher?" is one, which is asked no matter which party she serves, the point being about political style rather than beliefs. We have an idea now about how the UK's second female Prime Minister regards the latter.
The 9/11 terror attacks on the US which killed 3000 people proved to be the catalyst for a fundamental change in the US and UK's approach to Iraq with talk of military action already on the agenda within a matter of weeks. The long-awaited Chilcot Report showed that while there was a public narrative of negotiation, the country was actively planning for a possible conflict after then president George Bush's famous summit with prime minister Tony Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas in April, 2002.
Tuesday was another awkward day for Britain as Prime Minister David Cameron met with European Union leaders in Brussels for the first time since British voters chose to quit the EU. "I want the U.K. to clarify its position.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says in an impassioned plea for Europe that there is no quick fix for fractures exposed by the British referendum because the reasons that nations adhere to the European Union must be reinvented. He says some aspects of Britain's EU exit must be dealt with urgently but "the process of re-founding Europe will take time."
Britain voted to lea... . Clouds gather above the Houses of Parliament on the banks of the river Thames following yesterday's EU referendum result, London, Saturday, June 25, 2016.
On the morning after the United Kingdom's historic Brexit vote declaring independence from the European Union, Breitbart News Daily's American listeners called into the SiriusXM show to express their solidarity with the people of Great Britain and their hopes for what this portends for America's populist movement in the November election. Callers offered jubilant congratulations to the United Kingdom on their "Independence Day" from the bureaucratic elites of the European Union.