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PM Liz Truss grilled in parliament on plans to offset energy crisis

Britain's new Prime Minister Liz Truss sparred with opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer at the House of Commons at her first session of Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.

France 24

Liz Truss is now officially the U.K.'s prime minister after meeting with the queen

Truss became prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix the health care system.

WEKU

My advice for Liz Truss: don’t treat backbenchers like me as a nuisance

Keir Starmer may not be Tony Blair, but I see signs of great danger if the Conservative party doesn’t get a grip on events, says MP Andrew Mitchell

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EXPLAINER: Why Truss is off to Scotland to become UK leader

Liz Truss is a onetime accountant who has served in Parliament for the past 12 years

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson: Outgoing PM’s most memorable quotes from ‘Elvis on Mars’ to ‘Them’s the breaks’

PM’s way with words helped him all the way to Downing Street but also often got him into trouble

The Independent UK

Big Ben's famous clock 'stuck' as hand show same time for hours

Big Ben's world-renowned clock was stuck in time after its hands appeared not to move for a number of hours thanks to what the House of Commons described as a 'temporary inaccuracy'

Daily Mirror

Speaker hints at tightening of Commons security after Extinction Rebellion protest

XR activists booked on an official tour of the building on Friday and superglued themselves in a chain around the Speaker’s chair.

The Independent UK

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Boris Johnson: Outgoing PM’s most memorable quotes from ‘Elvis on Mars’ to ‘Them’s the breaks’

PM’s way with words helped him all the way to Downing Street but also often got him into trouble

The Independent UK

Ministers to make it easier for foreign nurses and dentists to work in NHS

Exclusive: change to registration process will pave way for thousands of staff trained overseas to come to UK, says government

The Guardian - UK

The most controversial PM since Lloyd George: historians on Boris Johnson

In the pantheon of UK premiers, Johnson must claim his place as among the most scandalous, say experts

The Guardian - UK

Aaron Banks ‘writes off £7m loan’ as Leave.EU goes into liquidation

Brexit campaign group fronted by Nigel Farage leaves thousands in unpaid fines for data law breaches

The Guardian - UK

No10 spent £130,000 of public money on lawyers to call Boris Johnson probe 'unfair'

A legal opinion commissioned by the government criticised the Commons investigation into the PM's conduct - and cost £130,000 of taxpayers' money

Daily Mirror

Downing Street spends £130,000 on legal advice for PM in partygate probe

LEGAL opinion commissioned by the Government from a top lawyer criticising the Commons investigation into whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament…

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson: Outgoing PM’s most memorable quotes from ‘Elvis on Mars’ to ‘Them’s the breaks’

PM’s way with words helped him all the way to Downing Street but also often got him into trouble

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The Independent UK

Lord Pannick advice on ‘unlawful’ probe cost £130,000

Downing Street commissioned the legal advice from the crossbench peer and published it on Friday in a highly unusual move.

The Independent UK

Lawyers advising UK's Johnson say Partygate inquiry unfair

Even as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to step down, the debate over his conduct in office is heating up

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson: Outgoing PM’s most memorable quotes, from ‘Elvis on Mars’ to ‘Them’s the breaks’

PM’s way with words helped him all the way to Downing Street but also often got him into trouble

The Conversation

Boris Johnson: four ways this controversial prime minister tested the British parliament to its limits

Boris Johnson’s tenure as British prime minister is nearly over, ending a fractious period for parliament and the wider political system.

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The Independent UK

Court would find probe into whether Johnson lied ‘unlawful’, says Lord Pannick

The top barrister argued the Commons inquiry’s approach is ‘unfair’ in a Government-commissioned legal opinion.

Daily Mirror

11 times Boris Johnson hasn't seemed all that bothered about endangering democracy

As Boris Johnson's lawyer complains that the investigation into his conduct is unfair, and his allies complain it could endanger democracy - here's a rundown of just some of the times Mr Johnson appeared to be less bothered about all that

Reuters

Parliamentary probe into UK PM Boris Johnson 'wrong in principle' - govt legal advice

An investigation into whether British Prime Minister Boris Johnson misled parliament is proposing an unfair approach in conducting the probe which is wrong in principle, legal advice to the government said on Friday.

Al Jazeera

Extinction Rebellion protesters superglue selves at UK parliament

Climate change activists padlock themselves to gates outside parliament, saying ‘we cannot afford to go on like this’.

Reuters

Six arrested after Extinction Rebellion protest inside British parliament

London police arrested six individuals after the Extinction Rebellion environmental group staged a protest inside Britain's parliament on Friday, while it was not in session, gluing themselves around the speaker's chair.

Daily Record

Extinction Rebellion protesters superglue themselves inside House of Commons chamber

Three protesters have superglued their hands to Speakers chair in the chamber while another two held signs calling for a change of policy from the government.

The Independent UK

Climate protesters superglue themselves around Commons Speaker’s chair

Extinction Rebellion demanding a Citizen’s Assembly to tackle global warming

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