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# uk-politics - Thursday 19 December, 2019
Building NI-Scotland bridge is a 'very interesting idea', says Johnson
The prime minister spoke to MPs in the House of Commons earlier today.
# uk-politics - Tuesday 17 December, 2019
Boris Johnson to legislate to prevent any further Brexit delays
The re-worked Withdrawal Agreement Bill is due to come before the Commons this week.
# uk-politics - Sunday 15 December, 2019
Creed says Brexit trade deal by end of 2020 is 'wildly beyond credibility' but Gove 'confident' it can be done
Michael Gove said Simon Coveney “takes a different view” to those who dismiss the possibility of getting a trade deal sorted next year.
'I take my responsibility for it': Jeremy Corbyn apologises for Labour's election result
Corbyn has written an open letter to Labour supporters.
# uk-politics - Friday 13 December, 2019
'Let's get Brexit done, but first let's get breakfast done': Johnson says he's humbled by resounding win
Johnson said he was “humbled” by the support of former Labour voters.
# uk-politics - Thursday 12 December, 2019
Voters reportedly leaving queues, as long lines form at polling stations
“It’s about 20 times busier than it was in 2017.”
UK election: What are the possible outcomes for parliament?
The polls will stay open in the UK until 10pm tonight.
# uk-politics - Thursday 5 December, 2019
Boris Johnson appears on ITV's This Morning despite ongoing row over BBC interview
Johnson appeared on the daytime programme with Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.
# uk-politics - Tuesday 29 October, 2019
Boris Johnson blasts 'unrelenting parliamentary obstructionism' as UK moves towards December election
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said his party will support a parliamentary vote on the holding of an election.
# uk-politics - Thursday 26 September, 2019
Boris Johnson stands firm and ignores appeals to apologise over Jo Cox comments
There have been calls from UK parliamentarians on all sides to tackle a “toxic” political culture.
# uk-politics - Friday 24 May, 2019
Theresa May is expected to reveal when she will resign this morning
The battle to succede May will ramp up following the announcement.
# uk-politics - Monday 20 May, 2019
Opinion: 'The Farage approach would strip the heart from democracy'
The Brexit Party is leading the polls but has refused to publish a manifesto – that approach poses a threat to democracy, writes Matthew Murphy.
# uk-politics - Thursday 13 December, 2018
'Time to call it a May': How British media reacted to Theresa May's survival
The Prime Minister was backed by 200 MPs in last night’s House of Commons vote.
# uk-politics - Sunday 12 August, 2018
Burqa row: Steve Bannon comes out to bat for Boris Johnson
Bannon has said that Johnson has “nothing to apologise for”.
# uk-politics - Tuesday 17 July, 2018
Vote Leave fined and referred to police for 'breaking laws over electoral spending'
The results of a much-awaited UK Electoral Commission investigation have been released.
# uk-politics - Sunday 29 April, 2018
UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has resigned over the Windrush scandal
Theresa May said she accepted her resignation this evening.
# uk-politics - Tuesday 20 February, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn hits back at The Sun's 'commie spy' claims, calling them 'a little bit James Bond'
The British Labour leader says UK ‘media barons’ are running scared.
# uk-politics - Tuesday 26 December, 2017
RTÉ's Tony Connelly on Brexit leaks: 'If you suppress a paper you've been given, you're crossing a line'
We talked to Ireland’s Brexit expert, who recently wrote a book on the topic.
# uk-politics - Saturday 2 December, 2017
UK deputy PM under pressure over claim that he had porn on work computer
Damian Green has dismissed the claims, made by two former police officers, as a smear campaign.
# uk-politics - Monday 17 July, 2017
Theresa May seeks to root out leakers as Tony Blair says Jeremy Corbyn could be PM
May is trying to focus her party’s attention on Brexit.
# uk-politics - Thursday 8 June, 2017
Poll: Will you stay up to watch UK election coverage?
Britain goes to the polls today.
# uk-politics - Sunday 21 May, 2017
The Tories' lead over Labour has been slashed in half in a week
The Conservatives still hold a comfortable lead ahead of the 8 June election.
# uk-politics - Sunday 30 April, 2017
Theresa May: People use food banks 'for many complex reasons'
The British Prime Minister was asked about the Conservative party’s record on poverty.
# uk-politics - Wednesday 19 April, 2017
Poll: Which British PM would be better for Ireland?
May or Corbyn? Corbyn or May?
# uk-politics - Saturday 18 March, 2017
A Tory finance minister has been named as the editor of one the UK's biggest newspapers
George Osborne is still an MP and also has a €750,000-a-year job with a wealth management company.
# uk-politics - Wednesday 5 October, 2016
Ukip turmoil as new leader quits just 18 days into the job
Nigel Farage has ruled out a return.
# uk-politics - Sunday 2 October, 2016
Theresa May says the UK will trigger Article 50 to start EU withdrawal before March 2017
Some Conservatives are getting impatient ahead of the party conference.
# uk-politics - Sunday 28 August, 2016
Theresa May is looking to make Brexit happen without a Commons vote
UK reports say the British PM is committed to getting the UK out of the EU.
# uk-politics - Tuesday 23 August, 2016
Billionaire Richard Branson has just called out Jeremy Corbyn with a CCTV video
Last week Corbyn sat on the floor of a Virgin train, but the company says there were plenty of seats.
# uk-politics - Saturday 30 April, 2016
Hitler's name just won't go away as Labour's 'anti-semitism' row rumbles on
Ken Livingstone apologised for loads of things but not for involving the Nazi leader.
# uk-politics - Monday 21 September, 2015
A new book says David Cameron put "a private part" in a dead pig's mouth
He also smoked marijuana, according to the book.
# uk-politics - Thursday 17 September, 2015
'I'm Irish, I live in London and I've joined Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn'
An apathetic and marginalised electorate have been woken up by the new Labour leader, this shouldn’t be ignored writes Ruairí O’Grady.
# uk-politics - Wednesday 16 September, 2015
This is what happens when you dare to not sing the British national anthem
You make headlines, lots of headlines
# uk-politics - Monday 14 September, 2015
Poll: Would you vote for Jeremy Corbyn?
Purely hypothetical of course.
# uk-politics - Thursday 13 August, 2015
# uk-politics - Tuesday 2 June, 2015
Former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy has died aged 55
The UK politician was opposed to the Iraq War during his time as leader.
# uk-politics - Saturday 9 May, 2015
Tory election victor tears into political rivals and causes a near riot
“Intellectually barren, corrupt, backward-looking losers.”
# uk-politics - Thursday 2 April, 2015
Nigel Farage singled out foreign-born HIV sufferers in a TV debate and Twitter lost it
The UKIP leader was giving out about ”heath tourism’.
# uk-politics - Wednesday 14 January, 2015
This UK party leader wants feminism to be "a badge of shame"
Mike Buchanan is the leader of Justice For Men and Boys (And For The Women Who Love Them).
# uk-politics - Thursday 18 December, 2014
UK police: We believe witness who says an MP murdered a boy during an "abuse party"
Police say it is “credible” that members of a ‘VIP paedophile ring’ murdered three boys between 1975 and 1984.
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Poll: Should voting in the Seanad election be extended?
AS GOVERNMENT-FORMATION talks continue post-general election, some focus is now turning to the Seanad election.
The upper house consists of 60 senators who are appointed or elected in three different ways: The Taoiseach’s nominees, panels and the university panel.
There has been much discussion about the Seanad in recent years with many people viewing it as elitist and in need of being reformed or scrapped altogether. The public was asked in a referendum in October 2013 whether the Seanad should be abolished – 51.7% said No, 48.27% said Yes.
The public previously voted to extend voting rights to all graduates of Irish third-level institutions, but a law allowing this to happen has never been enacted. However, many people argue this is still unfair given how many others would still be unable to vote.
What do you think: Should voting in the Seanad election be extended?
Poll Results:
Yes, to every citizen over 18 (2336)
The Seanad should be reformed or scrapped (1738)
Yes, to all third-level graduates (670)
No, it's fine the way it is (494)
I'm not sure (105)
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Tony Blair stuck his oar into the Labour leadership race - and some people are livid
“If Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader … It will mean rout, possibly annihilation.”
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