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Impeachment: The Trial of President Donald J Trump will happen in the New Year
Now – a dubious honour for Donald Trump – who’s become only the third US president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
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Nicola Sturgeon requests second independence referendum
In Edinburgh, the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been claiming a very different democratic mandate – as she set out her case for another independence vote, declaring it was ‘inevitable’ that a new referendum would be held.
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NI parties hold talks on restoring power sharing
Talks to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly have begun, nearly three years since the devolved government was suspended.
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Nationalists win more seats than unionists in NI for first time
There were some major defeats for the Democratic Unionists, including their deputy leader, Nigel Dodds who lost his seat to Sinn Fein.
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Future of Northern Ireland in doubt as nationalist MPs outnumber unionists for first time
For the first time, Northern Ireland now has more nationalist and republican MPs than unionists, with some major defeats for the Democratic Unionists – including their deputy leader. So what does this say about the future of the Stormont assembly, which has not sat since 2017 – and the failure by the two main parties to break the impasse?
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FactCheck: the 2019 general election explained in five graphs
The results are in and Boris Johnson has returned to Downing Street with a comfortable Conservative majority.
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FactCheck: what might have happened under Proportional Representation?
The Conservatives got 43.6 per cent of all votes cast – but 56 per cent of all the seats in the House of Commons.
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DUP say they won’t support Johnson Brexit deal
In Northern Ireland, pro-Remain parties have been joining together in ad-hoc electoral pacts in an effort to remove Democratic Unionists.
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Has Lib Dem ‘stop Brexit’ message broken through?
The Liberal Democrats have focussed their campaign around a straight ‘stop Brexit’ message in their target constituencies, but it’s not clear if that message has broken through, with voters with the party’s momentum draining away throughout the campaign.
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Will Johnson win a ‘get Brexit done’ majority?
The party leaders have been pretty much everywhere today in a final campaigning blitz before the polling stations open first thing tomorrow morning.
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‘Brexit will have terrible effect on NHS’, says Lib Dem Dr Sarah Wollaston
We were joined by Dr Sarah Wollaston, who was a Conservative MP and is now a Liberal Democrat. She was the Chair of the commons Health and Social Care committee from 2014 to 2019.
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Parties pledge final election promises as polling day looms
For some, it’s the stuff of nightmares but for one political leader this Friday the 13th could be a dream come true. And with just three days of campaigning left until the polls open, the parties are all making their final pledges and promises.
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Reddit says US-UK trade document leak linked to Russia
When the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn held aloft a 451-page document which he claimed showed the Conservatives were discussing the NHS in trade talks with the US, questions about who had leaked the papers were asked.
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Jo Swinson: ‘Breaking up is hard to do’
The Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has been campaigning in Scotland today, warning of the threat of a second referendum on Scottish independence.
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Ethics lawyer on Trump impeachment: “Nobody thought the Republicans in the senate would turn on President Nixon”
From Minneapolis we’re joined by Richard Painter, who served as the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration.
