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Alice Ritchie
AFP journalist covering British politics. South Londoner.
Boris Johnson wins race to become Britain’s next PM
The former London mayor easily beat his rival, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, in a poll conducted among members of the governing Conservative Party.
Larger than life: Britain’s Boris Johnson
The former foreign minister has dismissed questions about his competence and populist rhetoric with a pitch to take Britain out of the European Union
Beating Boris: Race to replace UK’s May kicks off
Ten Conservative MPs gathered enough support to qualify by Monday’s deadline for the race to replace May
Drugs and Brexit: Race to replace UK’s May under way
Eleven candidates have set their sights on replacing May, who quit as the prime minister over her failure to take Britain out of the EU on time
Assange faces jail for UK bail breach
The Australian whistle-blower, who was arrested on April 11 after Ecuador gave him up, could face a 12-month prison sentence
May pledges to quit to save Brexit plan
The prime minister of Britain dramatically announced she would quit if her MPs finally backed her withdrawal agreement
May back in Brussels for latest Brexit showdown
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May returned to Brussels on Thursday for a showdown with EU leaders
May wins mandate to reopen Brexit deal but EU says no changes
MPs also voted in favour of a non-binding measure that ‘rejects the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement’
The man holding the Brexit cards: Speaker John Bercow
Speaker John Bercow is best known for presiding over debates, bellowing "Order! Order!" at unruly lawmakers and chastising ministers who displease him
British PM faces confidence vote after Brexit humiliation
May suffered the largest government defeat in modern British history when the House of Commons rejected the withdrawal agreement struck late last year
British MPs debate Brexit deal amid legal row
May is facing opposition on all sides of the House of Commons to the withdrawal agreement she struck with the European Union last month
May takes Brexit deal to rebellious MPs
British Prime Minister Theresa May will on Thursday begin trying to sell her Brexit deal to Parliament
UK’s May takes Brexit deal to cabinet as MPs revolt
After months of talks, May announced late Tuesday that negotiators had struck a draft agreement on the terms of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU
Johnson assaults May’s Brexit plan at fractious party meeting
Mixing jokes with biting one-liners that stopped short of attacking Theresa May herself, Boris Johnson called her strategy ‘dangerous and unstable’
Tensions rise as EU prepares for final Brexit stretch
After pitching her Brexit plan to the other EU leaders, British PM Theresa May will leave them to discuss their next steps without her on Thursday