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Longest-serving British Indian MP announces retirement
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], Nov 11 (ANI): Britain's longest-serving Indian-origin MP Keith Vaz announced his retirement from the parliament on Sunday, weeks after Commons Standards Committee recommended he should be handed a six-month suspension over cocaine and prostitute scandal.
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British Speaker blocks new vote on Johnson's Brexit deal
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct 22 (ANI): Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow on Monday (local time) blocked the government's attempt to organise a new vote on the recently renegotiated Brexit deal in the British Parliament.
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UK Parliament resumes after Supreme Court ruling
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], Sept 25 (ANI): British parliamentarians returned to the House of Commons on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court decreed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's controversial five-week suspension of Parliament was unlawful, CNN reported.
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UK lawmakers reject Boris Johnson's motion for snap election
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], Sept 5 (ANI): British MPs on Wednesday rejected a motion tabled by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to dissolve the Parliament and call a snap election on October 15, handing the 55-year-old Conservative leader his third defeat in less than 24 hours.
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UK: Boris Johnson loses majority after Lee switches side
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], Sept 3 (ANI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday lost majority in the Parliament after Conservative MP Phillip Lee defected to the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons.
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South China Sea part of global commons: India
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 29 (ANI): India on Thursday said the South China Sea is a part of global commons and it firmly stands for freedom of navigation and overflight and unimpeded commerce in international waters.
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UK Cabinet member issues unusual style guide to staff; bans words like 'eq
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], July 28 (ANI): The newly appointed UK Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, raised eyebrows after issuing an unusual style guide to his new office, wherein specific words like "ongoing" have been banned in use for correspondence.
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UK lawmaker seeks police probe into envoy's leaked cables
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], July 9 (ANI): Tom Tugendhat, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, has written to the Metropolitan Police Service, asking for a probe into the leak of the secret cables of the British Ambassador to the US.
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Amid Brexit chaos, May's key minister resigns
Updated : 7 years ago IST
London [Brexit], May 23 (ANI): In yet another blow to British Prime Minister Theresa May, who is struggling hard to get a Brexit deal cleared through both houses, one of her key minister, House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom resigned on Wednesday.
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British Parliament may vote again on Brexit agreement tomorrow
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], Mar 28 (ANI): The British Parliament is set to debate on a motion related to Brexit on Friday, according to the Leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom.
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Lawmakers can't vote again on Brexit, says UK Speaker
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], Mar 19 (ANI): In yet another blow for British Prime Minister Theresa May, Speaker of the British Parliament John Bercow said on Monday that lawmakers cannot vote again on the Brexit deal as the same agreement was rejected twice.
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Brexit: UK Parliament rejects Theresa May's deal for second time
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], March 13 (ANI): British Parliament on Tuesday rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal for a second time, tossing the UK into the unknown, 17 days before it is due to split from the European Union.
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