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Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s director of communications resigned on Wednesday, a move that suggested tension at the heart of government as Britain prepares to complete its Brexit journey out of the European Union. Lee Cain has been a loyal ally of the prime minister, working for him since he was foreign minister until 2018 and staying by his side, sometimes without pay, when Johnson resigned over his predecessor Theresa May’s Brexit plans. Cain is also close to Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings after working with him in the Vote Leave campaign to quit the EU, a partnership that was reborn…

Conservative lawmakers have set up a new group to fight what they call a cycle of lockdowns to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, yet another sign of discontent in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s governing party. While most Conservatives backed the government last week in supporting a second lockdown in England to try to bring down rising cases of COVID-19, more than 30 of the party’s lawmakers broke ranks, seeing the measures as draconian. The new internal group, called the Covid Recovery Group, is the latest to be formed by Conservative lawmakers, part of wider efforts to try…

Britain and the European Union are likely to miss their mid-November deadline to clinch a post-Brexit trade because talks in London to break a deadlock are expected to run through the end of this week, sources on both sides told Reuters on Wednesday. Ambassadors of the 27 EU member states in Brussels will not be updated on the talks at a regular meeting on Wednesday and the issue is now pencilled in for their meeting on Nov. 18, a senior diplomat of the bloc said. However, in a sign that the estranged allies are still pushing for an agreement, EU…

Disagreements over whether to ease COVID-19 curbs this week among the rival Sinn Fein and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that lead Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government drew criticism on Wednesday from frustrated businesses. Northern Ireland became the first part of the United Kingdom to reimpose strict COVID-19 constraints in mid-October, closing schools for two weeks and restaurants for four but only after disagreements between the two parties were settled. The mandatory power-sharing executive was a key part of a 1998 peace deal that largely ended three decades of violence between Catholic Irish nationalists, whom Sinn Fein traditionally draw support from, and…

The City of London will remain a competitive global financial centre after Britain’s full exit from the European Union because of the country’s commitment to open markets and robust rules, finance minister Rishi Sunak will say on Monday. Sunak is due to address parliament at 1615 GMT about how Britain will support its 200 billion-pound ($263.04 billion) financial services industry. Pro-Brexit lawmakers say leaving the EU gives Britain a chance to scale back on the bloc’s rules and boost the competitiveness of London, the world’s biggest financial centre after New York, as Asian centres like Shanghai gather momentum. “Proposals to…

Eight rounds into a Premier League season is usually a sufficient period for the big guns to start gathering near the top of the table and for the surprise early pace-setters to be on their inevitable slide. Now and again a club from outside the accepted top-six will defy gravity for longer and once in a blue moon miracles happen, as Leicester City proved by winning the title in 2015-16 as 5000-1 outsiders. A glance at the standings after the weekend’s games raises the prospect that this season might be a bit different. Southampton, beaten 9-0 by Leicester a year…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a heavy defeat in parliament’s upper chamber on Monday over proposed laws which would allow him to breach Britain’s EU exit treaty – a plan that has been criticised by U.S. president elect Joe Biden. The Internal Market Bill is designed to protect trade between Britain’s four nations after Brexit. It contains clauses ministers say are needed to protect Northern Ireland’s delicate status as part of the United Kingdom, but would also break international law in a “specific and limited” way. The House of Lords voted to strip those clauses from the bill in a…

President Donald Trump will push ahead on Tuesday with legal challenges to the results of last week’s election after U.S. Attorney General William Barr told federal prosecutors to look into any “substantial” allegations of voting irregularities. Barr’s directive to prosecutors prompted the top lawyer overseeing voter fraud investigations to resign in protest. It came after days of attacks on the integrity of the election by Trump and Republican allies, who have alleged widespread voter fraud, without providing evidence. The Trump campaign has filed several lawsuits claiming the election results were flawed. Judges have tossed out lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia,…

“Praise is one of the most devastating weapons of war; it completely shatters the fortresses of Satan” — Pastor Chris Oyakhilome. Thunderous shouts of rejoicing, reverberated across the globe as Pastor Chris by the Spirit declared November to be ‘the Month of Praise’ at the just concluded Global Service. God’s people received the Word with gladness of heart and readiness to offer lavish praises to God for who He is. Reading from Hebrews 13:15, ” By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name,”…

The Kremlin said on Monday it would wait for the official results of the U.S. presidential election before commenting on its outcome, and that it had noted incumbent Donald Trump’s announcement of legal challenges related to the vote. President Vladimir Putin has remained silent on the issue since Democrat Joe Biden clinched the presidency on Saturday, four days after the Nov. 3 election, clearing the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. In the vote’s run-up, Putin had appeared to hedge his bets, frowning on Biden’s anti-Russian rhetoric but welcoming his comments on nuclear arms…