‘You f***ed it up’: Boris Johnson’s Brexit guru Dominic Cumming tears into ‘better-than-average educated Remainer’ MPs as Boris Johnson’s crushing election victory means the UK WILL leave the EU in January The Vote Leave mastermind tore into political opponents after the Tory landslide Tories racked up 365 seats in the first December election for nearly a century Cummings said ‘People […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s pro-European Union Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, lost her parliamentary seat to the Scottish National Party on Friday. The Liberal Democrats had hoped to win over ‘remain’ voters by pledging to overturn Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the EU but an exit poll predicted they would gain just one seat in parliament compared to […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have made a net gain of 40 seats so far. Here is a list of the Conservative party’s gains and losses. CONSERVATIVE GAINS: 49 From Labour: Blyth Valley, Darlington, Peterborough, Wrexham, Vale of Clwyd, Workington, Leigh, Stockton South, Clwyd South, Blackpool South, Scunthorpe, Redcar, Burnley, Ipswich, West Bromwich West, Hyndburn, Ynys Mon, […]
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ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – The Ontario Hockey League game between the Niagara IceDogs and the London Knights was postponed Thursday after Niagara goaltender Tucker Tynan was injured and taken off the ice on a stretcher following a scary on-ice collision. The team said in a tweet that Tynan was stable and undergoing surgery Thursday night. Video of the play showed […]
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Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would not lead the party into the next election after admitting it had been a “very disappointing night.” “This is obviously a very disappointing night for the Labour Party with the result that we’ve got,” Corbyn said after winning his north London electoral seat. “I will not lead the party in […]
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David Carey, the former president of Hearst Magazines, is returning to the fold a year after his departure — raising questions about the future of successor Troy Young. Carey is taking a full-time role as senior vice president of public affairs and communications for the parent company — a very different role from the one he held running mags like […]
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Canadian lawyer William Schabas, an international scholar on genocide, has been criticized by friend and foe for first researching crimes against the Muslim Rohingya of Myanmar, and now defending the state accused of perpetrating them. Schabas helped research a report in 2010 on systematic attacks against the Rohingya, which concluded that they met the international threshold […]
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Friday that Britain’s election results, according to exit polls, meant Brexit would now materialize and that time was short to seal a new relationship deal between the EU and Britain. “It is a very clear result – it will not change by tomorrow morning,” Lofven told reporters on leaving an […]
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Mayors from Metro Vancouver almost all voted Thursday to fast-track a regional business licence model for ridesharing companies at the TransLink mayor’s council. All, that is, except for one. Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum was the sole voice of opposition around the table — voting against the motion because many residents of Surrey don’t want ridesharing in the city at all, […]
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