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You might even recognise their faces - but how much do you know about them? Rishi Sunak The UK's former chancellor, until his out-of-the-blue resignation put Boris Johnson’s leadership on the ropes The face of the furlough scheme during the Covid pandemic Alongside his former boss, Sunak was...

The new British Prime Minister will be announced today at 12:30 BST at London's Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. Liz Truss is the strong favourite to beat Rishi Sunak. The new PM will be installed tomorrow by the Queen at Balmoral in Scotland. Truss tipped by pollsters to win the contest...

You may have just coined a new term which we may well hear a lot of in the coming years. We've gone from the Iron Lady to the Steel Truss.

Truss to scrap motorway speed limits if she becomes PM on Tuesday... An interview with The Stig from Top Gear on GB News and an interview with Truss during her LBC debate

I think she wants to try and portray a Thatcherite "Iron Lady" persona.

His parents are from the British colonies of Kenya and Tangyanika, of Indian descent.

An Earth tremor today rocked the parliament of the tiny European nation of Liechtenstein during a debate about earthquake insurance...

The Queen will break with tradition and appoint Truss or Sunak as new British PM at Balmoral instead of Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, with Truss the strong favourite to win on Monday and become Britain's 56th Prime Minister. One of the monarch's jobs is to appoint the Prime Minister, but...

NASA on Monday released two new images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope that showcase the planet's features in detail. The images were captured by the telescope's near-infrared camera, which uses infrared radiation to detect objects in space. New Webb images of Jupiter highlight...

Salman Rushdie's agent has said "the news is not good" after the author was stabbed at an event in New York state. He was attacked on stage, and is now on a ventilator and unable to speak, Andrew Wylie said in a statement, adding that the author may lose one eye. Mr Rushdie has suffered years...

“views, actions and activities condemned by today’s society.” But not necessarily condemned in his society.

Scotland's First Minister before Sturgeon was Salmond.

May was a bit of a damp squib. A Remainer dressed up in Brexiteer clothing. Having failed to get us out of the EU we got rid of her and brought Johnson in to do the job.

I go into my local ASDA supermarket after work. I used to be on the 2pm to 10pm shift but since April last year (just after Prince Philip died) I've been on the 12pm to 8pm shift. One night a few years or so ago after finishing work at 10pm I went into the 24 hour ASDA to get my beers in and as...

British novelist Salman Rushdie is in hospital after being stabbed in New York State...

England's female Euro 2022 winners are too white says the BBC

You were our penal colony, our dumping ground for all those evil felons who committed any crime worse than thieving five shillings. We clamped down hard on crime in those days.

Soon-to-be British PM Liz Truss trashes Scotland's hapless nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon Sturgeon begs Westminster for £3.5 billion, despite wanting Scottish independence!

This is why Liz Truss is about to become Britain's third female Prime Minister

Slipknot - "Yen" (2022)