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Farage Defeats Binface in UK Special Election

Comedian boasts that he was first among 'candidates who bothered to turn up for the results'

(Newser) - "I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of candidates who bothered to turn up for the results," Count Binface said on X after finishing behind Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in a special election other major parties dismissed as a farce and a distraction from Farage's ethics...

Count Binface: 'I'm the Only Fresh Thing on the Menu'

Comedian is Nigel Farage's leading challenger in UK special election

(Newser) - Timing is everything in comedy and, so it seems, in British politics for a perennial joke candidate who wears a garbage can on his head. Count Binface, a self-described intergalactic space warrior, has landed in the center of the UK's political universe ahead of a special election Thursday that...

UK Politician Was Hit 21 Times With a Hammer: Prosecutors

Accused killer of former MP Ann Widdecombe appears in London court

(Newser) - Former British politician Ann Widdecombe was struck 21 times on the head with a hammer as she was eating lunch at home, a prosecutor told a court hearing on Tuesday for the man charged in her murder. Joshua Kerry, 28, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London over the killing...

Police Now Treating Killing of UK Ex-Lawmaker as Terrorism

A new suspect in the murder of Ann Widdecombe was arrested on Saturday

(Newser) - Police have reversed course in the killing of former UK lawmaker Ann Widdecombe, and are now treating her death as a suspected act of terrorism. Counter-terrorism officers took charge after what they described as "new information and evidence" emerged, days after Devon and Cornwall Police said there was no...

Farage's Biggest Challenger: Count Binface

With major parties steering clear of UK by-election 'farce,' it's novelty candidate's time to shine

(Newser) - Nigel Farage's main opponent in an upcoming special election may be a man who wears a helmet shaped like a trash can. With the main parties refusing to field candidates in the upcoming Clacton by-election, parody contender Count Binface is emerging as the right-wing Reform UK leader's most...

Farage Quits UK Parliament, Plans a Very Rapid Comeback

Reform UK leader resigns amid donation probe, but will seek a mandate in a local by-election

(Newser) - Nigel Farage just walked away from his seat in Parliament—so he can try to win it straight back. The Reform UK leader said he is resigning as MP for Clacton-on-Sea amid an investigation into a $6.7 million payment from Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, but vowed to contest...

Britain's Keir Starmer to Resign as Prime Minister

Pressure from within his own Labour Party proves too much

(Newser) - Keir Starmer's time at No. 10 Downing Street now has an end date. The UK prime minister said Monday he will resign as Labour leader less than two years after a landslide win, bowing to days of mounting pressure from his own MPs and cabinet ministers worried about the...

England's 'King of the North' Faces a Big Test

Andy Burnham faces Makersfield voters in quest to challenge Keir Starmer for Labour leader

(Newser) - The big word in British politics on Thursday: Makersfield. Residents of this post-industrial patch of northwest England will decide whether to send Andy Burnham, Greater Manchester's high-profile mayor sometimes hailed as England's "King of the North," back to Parliament, per NBC News . If he wins the electoral...

Britain May Be Having 'Its Joe Biden Moment'

Comparisons between embattled PM Keir Starmer and the former president mount

(Newser) - A British prime minister is mired in a political drama that may sound familiar to Americans. As Patrick Cockburn writes at the British i Paper , the nation "is facing its Joe Biden moment." Translation: Keir Starmer is facing a fast-growing rebellion from within his own Labour Party but...

This Vote Could Completely Transform British Politics

Long-standing dominance of Labour and Conservative parties could dissolve in a day

(Newser) - Keir Starmer isn't on the ballot this week, but his party's troubles very much are. Voters in Scotland, Wales, and parts of England head to the polls Thursday in elections widely seen as a verdict on Labour's rule—and on Britain's old two-party model itself. Pollsters say anger at both...

UK Political Parties Banned From Taking Crypto Donations

Starmer says illicit finance is a 'stark' danger to democracy

(Newser) - British political parties will be banned from accepting donations in cryptocurrencies, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Wednesday, saying illicit finance poses a "stark" danger to the country's democracy. Starmer told lawmakers that "we will act decisively to protect our democracy" from outside meddling. "That will include...

High-Profile Defection Shakes UK Conservatives

Party leader fires main rival, who then defects to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

(Newser) - Britain's Conservative Party, which governed the country from 2010 until it suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat two years ago, was plunged into fresh turmoil Thursday after its leader sacked the man widely seen as her greatest rival for apparently plotting to defect from the party. He then defected. Robert...

Hard-Right Candidate Wins UK Election by 6 Votes

Special election was triggered after Labour lawmaker punched constituent in drunken rage

(Newser) - The hard-right party Reform UK led by Nigel Farage snatched a seat in Parliament from the governing Labour Party and made big gains in local elections that Farage hailed Friday as a turning point in British politics. Reform's Sarah Pochin was declared winner of the seat of Runcorn and...

Musk Goes After UK's 'Keir Starmtrooper'

X owner posts series of scathing tweets against British PM, supports nation's far-right Reform Party

(Newser) - Elon Musk has made a nonsubtle shift to the hard right—first through his increasingly close relationship with Donald Trump, as well as via his support for Germany's AfD party , which has neo-Nazi ties. Now he's stepping into the fray of British politics, slamming new Prime Minister Keir...

Farage Launches Campaign, Gets Milkshaked
Woman Who Milkshaked
Farage Avoids Jail Time
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Woman Who Milkshaked Farage Avoids Jail Time

Reform Party leader had drink thrown over him as he left pub on first day of campaign

(Newser) - A woman who chucked a milkshake over Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage as he left a pub in England in June has avoided jail time. Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, was given a 13-week suspended sentence after pleading guilty to assault, the BBC reports. She was ordered to pay Farage...

Britons Toast, or at Least Accept, Brexit Day
Brexit Day
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Brexit Day Finally Arrives

Nation gives EU membership a low-key send-off

(Newser) - Britons counted down the hours Friday to their country’s departure from the European Union — some joyous, some sad, many just hopeful the divorce would mark the end of an anguished chapter in their country’s history. The 11pm London departure—6pm Washington time—comes 3½ years after the...

After Milkshake Dousing, a Big Win for Brexit Party Leader

Early results show party nabbing a third of votes in EU election

(Newser) - Veteran euroskeptic Nigel Farage said Britain should get set to leave the European Union without a divorce deal, after an election across the bloc saw his Brexit Party and pro-EU forces carve up the votes at the expense of the long-dominant larger parties. The UK's governing Conservative Party was...

Cops Tried to Keep Pol Safe. The Milkshake Came Anyway

Nigel Farage is latest UK politician to get doused

(Newser) - What the Daily Beast is calling the "highest-profile victim of milkshaking so far" has been doused. The victim: Brexit leader Nigel Farage. What "milkshaking" is: a recent phenomenon in the UK of right-wing politicians having the sweet, goopy drink thrown on them in protest. Farage's incident took...

New Name Surfaces in FBI's Russia Probe

The 'Guardian' says UK politician Nigel Farage is a 'person of interest'

(Newser) - The Guardian is floating the name of UK politician Nigel Farage as a figure in the FBI's Russia investigation. The newspaper reports that Farage—who was a big backer of Brexit, as well as a supporter of then-candidate Donald Trump—is a "person of interest" in the agency'...

Trump Breaches Protocol in Tweet About the Brits

President-elect names the man he'd like for ambassador to the US

(Newser) - Yet another unconventional move from the president-elect: On Monday night, Donald Trump tweeted that "many people" would like to see United Kingdom Independence Party leader Nigel Farage "represent Great Britain as their Ambassador to the United States." "He would do a great job!" Trump added....

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