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Sadiq Khan wins London Mayoral Election: Election Unwrapped
Labour’s Sadiq Khan has won his third term as Mayor of London after beating Conservative Opposition Susan Hall. YouGov Polling before Thursday 2nd of May suggested that Sadiq Khan would beat Susan Hall by 22%. Sadiq Khan won 11.1% and secured 1,088,285 votes, compared to Susan Hall’s 812,397 votes. Candidate Expected Actual Sadiq Khan 47%…
Political Literacy: Building Critical Thinkers in the Information age
Currently, we are overwhelmed by a plethora of news sources in our digitally saturated world. Think about how many news companies you can name? It is the easiest it has ever been to access information of all sorts, and as a result, the easiest it has ever been to be lied to. The valuable ability…
Weekly Politics Summary – 26/4/24: Sunak raises Defence Budget
Sunak Celebrates as Rwanda Bill Passes On Monday the 22nd, the House of Lords passed the Rwanda bill, which will deport 2,200 illegal migrants to Rwanda. Previously, the bill was being sent back and forth between the Commons and the Lords. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has worked on this bill since his ascension to power in 2022, which was…
Rwanda Bill passed in House of Lords
Take a quiz on this article: On Monday the 22nd, the House of Lords passed UK’s Rwanda bill after the peers un-successfully sent it back to the House of Commons five times. The House of Lords wanted two main amendments to the bill The UK expects to fly 2200 asylum seekers to Rwanda in July through…
Weekly Politics Summary – 19/4/24: Israel Strikes Iran
Take a Quiz about this article at: Israel Strikes Iran On the morning of Friday the 19th, Israel launched a retaliatory strike on Iranian Military targets within Iran and Iraq. Israel targeted a large Iranian Army base in the city of Isfahan with radar technologies. Further strikes took place on military targets around Tabriz. By disabling Iran’s radar…
Brussels unconstitutionally kicks out right-wing British Politicians
On April 16th, Brussels Police removed Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman from the National Conservatism Conference, at the Claridge hotel, in Brussels, Belgium. The two-day conference hosted the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, on the 2nd day. Nigel Farage after being forced out of the Hotel by Belgian Police Image belongs to Copyright Holder.…