Colourful British lawmaker gets axed from Tory front bench
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Boris Johnson, one of the most colourful figures in British politics, was axed from the front bench of the main opposition Conservative Party amid press reports that he lied about an affair.
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Robert Kilroy-Silk causes uproar in the European Parliament - on the day his party discuss his expulsion.
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A frontbench Conservative MP is reprimanded after suggesting selective schools can boost overall standards.
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The Conservative Party has sacked its vice chairman and maverick shadow arts minister Boris Johnson from its front bench amid newspapers allegations about his private life.
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London: A launch of election policies by Tony Blair's main political opponents was blown out of the water yesterday as one of their senior members defected to the British prime minister's party.
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Former Conservative minister Robert Jackson defects to join the Labour Party.
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Iran's conservative-dominated parliament votes to sack Transport Minister Ahmad Khorram.
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A new security chief is to be appointed to parliament, after pro-hunt protesters stormed the commons.
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A Conservative MP is suspended from the party after being held on suspicion of assaulting his wife.
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The move by the legislator, angered over the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, leaves Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with a slimmer majority in Parliament.
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Graham Brady resigns from the   Conservative front bench after the party's row over grammar schools.
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LONDON  - A Conservative lawmaker was told by his party boss Saturday to apologize for an article that criticized the people of Liverpool for their "extreme reaction" to the beheading of a local man in Iraq and described them as "wallowing in victimhood."
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Outgoing PM to resign from parliament today as Brown engineers first victory over Cameron.
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Celebrity politician Robert Kilroy-Silk  walked out of Britain's most strident anti-European party on  Thursday after months of bickering over his leadership  ambitions.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  sacked his main coalition partner on Wednesday after a  humiliating parliamentary defeat that left him scrambling to  avoid early elections and save his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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A prominent politician and journalist embroiled in a recent controversy over the death of a British hostage in Iraq has been fired from senior posts in the Conservative Party because of a sex scandal, the party said Saturday.
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The speaker of Greenland's parliament has resigned amid allegations that he groped a female civil servant.