Liberals and Tories slug it out on last day of Canada election
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Conservative rival, Andrew Scheer, slugged it out Sunday on the last day of a rancorous election campaign. With Canadians going to the polls on Monday, the Liberals and Tories went into the home stretch in a dead heat, ...
After weeks of ducking the question, Canada Tory leader Andrew Scheer admits he is 'pro-life'
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's main rival in Canada's upcoming national elections, Andrew Scheer, said Thursday he is "pro-life" after weeks of ducking questions on his abortion stance. The Conservative leader, who is a devout Catholic and married with five children, has said since the start ...
Trudeau readies for first Canada debate clash with Tory poll rival
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will appear for his first debate of the 2019 election on Wednesday, facing off against main rival Andrew Scheer of the Conservative Party just three weeks ahead of the knife-edge vote. They will spar in French, looking to sway votes in ...
Boris Johnson battles sex allegations as Brexit opponents plot
Boris Johnson hoped to use his Conservative Party's annual convention to launch his campaign to win the next British general election. Instead, he is fighting for his credibility as prime minister as he faces allegations of sexual impropriety and plots to oust him. After two ...
Facebook to stop news headline changes from advertisers after U.K. party tweaked BBC link
Facebook said Monday it is working to stop advertisers from changing headlines in links to news stories after concerns raised by a British political party's altering of one such link. The leading social network confirmed the internal effort in the face of concerns over a ...
Jeremy Corbyn gears up for election as Brexit fears soar and Johnson heads to heart of EU
U.K. opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will promise to do "everything necessary" to prevent a no-deal Brexit as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to take his threat to let Britain crash out of the EU to the heart of Europe. The Labour Party leader in a ...
New U.K. leader Boris Johnson chides 'gloomsters' and vows bold new Brexit deal tough tack with EU
Boris Johnson promised in his first speech as prime minister to lead Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31 with "no ifs or buts" and warned that if the European Union refused to negotiate then there would be a no-deal Brexit. Johnson, who ...
Google not biased against conservatives, top executive to tell U.S. Senate panel
Google's top government affairs official said on Monday that the search engine does not discriminate against conservative viewpoints and that he will reiterate that to a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday. Karan Bhatia, vice president of global government affairs and public policy at Alphabet Inc.'s ...
U.K. Labour's trade union backers support second referendum on Brexit deal
British trade union leaders linked to the opposition Labour Party have agreed to back a second referendum on any Brexit deal reached by the next Conservative prime minister or a no-deal exit, according to a copy of the agreement seen by Reuters. Labour leader Jeremy ...
Boris Johnson, favored to be next British prime minister: Genius or joker?
Loose cannon or influential statesman — what kind of British prime minister would Boris Johnson make on the world stage? Judging by his time as foreign secretary, possibly both. When Johnson was given the foreign job in 2016, after Britain voted to leave the EU, ...
Boris Johnson says chances of no-deal Brexit are 'a million to one'
Boris Johnson, the favorite to become British prime minister, said the chances of Britain leaving the European Union without a deal are "a million-to-one" even as he repeated his promise to leave the bloc without a deal by the end of October. The race to ...
Then there were two: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt to fight it out for PM post
Fervent Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson and foreign minister Jeremy Hunt emerged on Thursday as the only two candidates left in the race to become British prime minister, with the flamboyant Johnson odds-on favorite to win next month. Despite a series of scandals in the past ...
