🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage smokes a cigarette outside a Westminster pub 'in protest' of Keir Starmer's proposed ban on smoking in pub gardens
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🚨 NEW: There have been no reports of riots tonight as thousands of anti-racist protesters significantly outnumber anti-immigration demonstrators across the country
🚨 BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the riots on Britain's streets: "I won't shy away from calling it what it is - far-right thuggery."
"If you target people because of colour of their skin or faith, then that is far-right."
🚨 NEW: YouTuber Niko Omilana, who previously ran and came 5th in the 2021 Mayor of London election, is running against Rishi Sunak in his Richmond and North Allerton seat
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has reportedly removed a painting of Margaret Thatcher from the Downing Street study room after finding it 'a bit unsettling'
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🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer received fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn did in both 2017 and 2019
2017 - 12,887,918 votes (Corbyn)
2019 - 10,269,051 votes (Corbyn)
2024 - 9,686,329 votes (Starmer)
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🚨 NEW: Merseyside Police confirm the 17-year-old suspect was born in Cardiff, contrary to online claims that he was an immigrant who arrived by small boat
🚨 BREAKING: Two children have died following the Southport stabbings
Nine other children are injured and six are in a critical condition, along with two adults
Police describe it as a “ferocious attack” that took place at a Taylor Swift dance class
🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak has said he had to "sacrifice all sorts of things" as a child
ITV: "Can you give me an example?"
Suank: "All sorts of things... like lots of people, all sorts of things... famously Sky TV"
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer's Cabinet has the lowest percentage of privately educated members ever, with just 1 person (4%) compared to 63% in Rishi Sunak's Cabinet
🚨 | BREAKING: Chris Bryant slams Rishi Sunak over the Privileges Committee report
Bryant: "Do you think the MPs should apologise?"
Sunak: "I haven't gone through the report yet"
B: "You haven't... read the report?"
S: "Not from cover to cover"
B: "It's 3 pages long..."
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has asked officials to pass him notes updating him about the England vs Netherlands semi-final during the NATO summit
Phones are taken off them due to security reasons
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🚨 NEW: Labour MPs laugh out loud at Suella Braverman after she says the one thing that "struck" her in the King's Speech was not scrapping the two-child benefit cap
One Labour MP: "You voted for it!"
🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage's Clacton campaign has been exposed to have evidence of racism and homophobia
One canvasser about Rishi Sunak: "That f**king p*** we got in - what good is he?"
About small boats arrivals: "Just f**king shoot them"
🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak is set to become the first prime minister in history to lose his seat at the election
🔴 Labour: 516
🔵 Conservatives: 53
🟠 Lib Dems: 50
🟡 SNP: 8
🟢 Plaid C: 4
⚪️ Other: 1
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🚨 NEW: The Home Office is considering proscribing the English Defence League under terror laws after the Southport riot last night
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🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage describes Kamala Harris as a "black African woman" and says Donald Trump would be "delighted" to have her as his opponent
Kamala Harris is not African - her parents are Indian and Jamaican
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🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage concludes: "We don't care about skin colour, orientation, we couldn't care less who you are. We care whether you share the values of this country"
"Is that what everyone wants? Is that what we are going to fight for?"
Huge cheers from audience
🚨 BREAKING: Merseyside Police have named and pictured the three girls killed in the stabbing in Southport as six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar
🚨 NEW: Suspended Labour MP Zarah Sultana to Keir Starmer: "Will he do what is morally and legally right and end the government's complicity in war crimes by banning all arms sales to Israel... yes or no?"
Starmer: "No."
🚨 NEW: Labour is expected to drop the UK’s bid to delay ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
They will also review the legal advice on arms sales and funding UNRWA
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🚨 NEW: Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Tory Councillor, has been arrested after calling for people to ‘set fire’ to hotels housing asylum seekers
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🚨 BREAKING: Home Secretary James Cleverly appears to call Stockton North a "sh*t hole" after Sunak is asked why child poverty in the area is at 34%
"Because it's a sh*t hole"
🚨 NEW: James Nelson, 19, is the first rioter to be jailed
He pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates' Court to causing criminal damage during the disorder in Bolton on Sunday and has been jailed for two months
🚨 NEW: Several countries, including Australia, Nigeria, Malaysia and Indonesia have all issued travel alerts for the UK, warning their nationals to stay away from demonstrations
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🚨 NEW: The Reform UK manifesto in full
Immigration:
- Freeze non-essential Immigration
- Pick up illegal migrants out of boats and take them back to France
- Leave the European Convention on Human Rights
- Zero illegal immigrants to be resettled in the UK
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🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak opens PMQs: "Good luck olympians, although, to be honest, I’m probably not the first person they’d want to hear advice from on how to win"
🚨 We will be live tweeting all the results as soon as they come in tonight and tomorrow!
Here's how the night will go:
10pm: Exit poll
11:30pm: First few results
12:15am: Early battleground results, incl Tory chair
2:00am: Results flow in
4:00am: Clear picture of winner
🚨 NEW: Armed police arrive at tonight’s far-right rally in Southport before being made to retreat
Some of the protestors in attendance can be heard shouting “F**k Muslims”
🚨 | BREAKING: A first ever video of partygate has been leaked showing the Tories drinking, dancing and LAUGHING at breaking covid rules
“Are you filming this? As long as we’re not steaming that we’re like, bending the rules ahahah”
🚨 NEW: Elon Musk responds to not being invited
"I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts."
🚨 NEW: Elon Musk has not been invited to the government’s International Investment Summit because of his social media posts during last month’s riots
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🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak’s closest parliamentary aide Craig Williams placed a bet on a July election just 3 days before Sunak named the date
He is now under investigation by the Gambling Commission
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