LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmakers defeated Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit divorce deal by a crushing margin on Tuesday, triggering political upheaval that could lead to a disorderly exit from the EU or even to a reversal of the 2016 decision to leave.
British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a challenge to her leadership Wednesday, winning a no-confidence vote initiated by fellow members of the Conservative Party.
Political leaders in Britain’s Labour Party have been informed by legal counsel that their party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, could be hit with U.S. sanctions for his multiple dealings with the terror group Hamas, according to a copy of a U.K. legal review obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The United Kingdom charged two men on Wednesday with the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a double-agent who formerly served in Russian military intelligence and spied for the West.
Prominent Jewish groups have called on U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to end the “impasse” over rooting out anti-Semitism in the party.
The leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn attended a 2012 conference with senior officials from the terrorist group Hamas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn Monday for Corbyn’s participation in a memorial for terrorists who killed 11 Israelis at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972.
Washington said on Wednesday it would impose fresh sanctions on Russia after it determined that Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain.
An online campaign seeks to remove the deputy leader of the Labour Party from his role after he argued Labour should more forcibly handle incidents of anti-Semitism within the party.
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party, apologized for the “concerns and anxiety caused” after he participated in a 2010 event that compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to the atrocities committed by the Nazis.
