It was a stunning upset for the Conservative Party leader, who was first elected in 2004.

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Ronnie O’Sullivan’s continues his quest for a history-making eighth world title against Si Jiahui after fellow ‘Class of ‘92’ veterans John Higgins and Mark Williams do battle

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People urged to avoid area and 80 evacuated as huge fire breaks out at electrical substation in Maida Vale

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Videos and pictures of the fire shows thick black smoke and flames coming from the property in Somerset

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President Trump brushes off his plummeting approval ratings and condemns the polls as ‘FAKE’ as he marks his 100th day in office

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Black smoke and flames were seen erupting in rush hour today near Warwick Avenue station

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Follow live for the latest UK pre-order updates from The Game Collection, Amazon and more

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The decision came as preparations get underway for the May 7 conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis

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This was a vote against delusions of a ‘51st state’ and economic warfare, rather than an endorsement of the Liberals’ policies

Yesterday, as Canadians went to the polls, US president Donald Trump suggested that if Canada became part of America, they could vote for him instead. But in truth, Canada becoming the 51st state wasn’t a prerequisite for Canadians to vote on Trump. It was Trump who set the stakes of this election anyway, beginning almost as soon as he took office. His threats against Canada, both economic and existential, were the backdrop of this campaign. An unexpected crisis on our doorstep.

And now, the Liberal party, led by Mark Carney, has won a fourth term in office, a result that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago, before Trump’s unprecedented intervention.

Colin Horgan is a Toronto-based writer and a former speechwriter for Justin Trudeau

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‘Empire’ actor claimed that rumours about legendary singer’s sexuality made him decline role

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Spain and Portugal report power supplies almost back to normal after day of chaos across the Iberian Peninsula

Portuguese infrastructure minister Miguel Pinto Luz has once again suggested that the power cut originated outside Portugal, as the search for answers continues, Diário de Notícias reported.

Lisbon metro appears to be back up and running.

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Benidorm’s usually bustling streets were deserted as a power outage affected Spain and Portugal on Monday, 28 April.

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The resident doctors’ wing of the BMA argued that a binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people’

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Purcell received a 25 per cent reduction in sanction due to full cooperation during the investigation

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Residents claimed that the suspected cat killer used a needle to inject a substance into one of the cats, and another resident told FOX 11 Los Angeles that they found their cat hanging from a tree.

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers are on trial at Newcastle Crown Court accused of felling Sycamore Gap tree

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The trucker jacket is from US brand Huckberry

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Prices were largely driven higher by a 17.4% rise in chocolate confectionery prices in the four weeks to April 20.

Stewart also mocked Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary and JD Vance meeting the Pope before his death

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As Putin makes his grand three-day truce announcement, Ukrainians on the ground are immediately dismissive of claims he is serious – there are good reasons for that, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew

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Paid-for citizenship offer must be scrapped under European Court of Justice ruling

Spanish power distributors said on Tuesday morning that more than 99% of power has been recovered.

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Indian authorities arrest over 500 people and demolish homes in security crackdown sweeping Kashmir

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a $254 billion budget that includes a deal with lawmakers to add a charge for mask-wearing suspects.

Jurors have been selected and opening statements are due on Wednesday in a case that has captured global attention

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The limited-edition treat draws inspiration from Dubai chocolate

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It came as parent firm Associated British Foods said it saw ‘weaker sales’ across the budget fashion chain’s UK and Ireland stores.

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Researchers say there may only be about 1,000 of the reptiles left

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The former X Factor judge has opened up about the online abuse she suffered

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Mikel Arteta is fine-tuning the Gunners for ‘the game of our lives’ against PSG in the Champions League last four

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For their 14th wedding anniversary, Prince William and Kate Middleton are heading to Scotland where they fell in love at the University of St. Andrews.

Archaeologists in Stuttgart, Germany, uncovered over 100 horse skeletons believed to have been part of a Roman cavalry unit. These remains are dated to the second century A.D.

Expert crash reconstruction witness Dr. Daniel Wolfe received information about prior testimony and sent notes to Karen Read's defense team during first murder trial.

This irresistible love story braids the personal and the political – from Brexit to who gets to use the spare room as an office

There are not many romantic novels that include Brexit, Boris Johnson’s ICU stay and the “Edstone”. Then again, not many political novels begin with a classic meet-cute. Jessica Stanley’s UK debut, Consider Yourself Kissed, is – to misquote Dorothy L Sayers – either a political story with romantic interludes, or a romance novel with political interludes. It is also the kind of book that, for a certain kind of reader, will immediately become a treasure.

That meet-cute, then: Coralie, a young Australian copywriter, and Adam, a single dad, swap homes for a single night. Adam looks like a shorter, younger Colin Firth; Coralie waits in vain for him to tell her that she looks “like Lizzy Bennet, a known fact at school”. Coralie considers Adam’s neat bookcase of political biographies, including – to her joy – those of Australian politicians. Adam considers Coralie’s piles of “those green-spine books by women”. They fall in love, books-first, fairly instantly. And the reader who knows immediately that battered green spines mean Virago Press, and that what is being implied by Coralie’s careful collection is key to not just her character, but the character of this novel as a whole – that reader will also be irresistibly, hopelessly in love by chapter three. (If this meet-cute does nothing for you, you’re in the wrong place.)

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A former FBI agent said the Trump administration's efforts to arrest illegal immigrants and gang members is making crime "go down."

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre's death over the weekend marks the third victim to die since 2017.

Liverpool won the title in their first season under Arne Slot.

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Trump has cut off Ukraine aid, brokered and lost a ceasefire in Gaza and took a sledgehammer to world commerce

• 100 days of Trump

For US foreign policy, Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office were the weeks when decades happened.

In just over three months, the US president has frayed alliances that stood since the second world war and alienated the US’s closest friends, cut off aid to Ukrainians on the frontlines against Vladimir Putin, emboldened US rivals around the world, brokered and then lost a crucial ceasefire in Gaza, launched strikes on the Houthis in Yemen and seesawed on key foreign policy and economic questions to the point where the US has been termed the “unpredictable ally”.

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Trump has wasted no time in trying to remake the US in his image – with results that are sweeping, vengeful and chaotic

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He has blinged it with gold cherubs, gold eagles, gold medallions, gold figurines and gilded rococo mirrors. He has crammed its walls with gold-framed paintings of great men from US history. In 100 days Donald Trump has turned the Oval Office into a gilded cage.

The portraits of Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan and other past presidents gaze down from a past that the 47th seems determined to erase. Trump is seeking to remake the US in his image at frightening speed. The shock and awe of his second term has challenged many Americans’ understanding of who they are.

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In this warm documentary, three siblings clear out their enormously grand childhood home in Oxfordshire where among the happy memories are those of cruelty

This warm, gentle documentary from Suzanne Raes is about a family – and a family home – that might have interested Nancy Mitford or Wes Anderson. Maybe it takes a non-British film-maker to appreciate such intense and unfashionable Englishness; not eccentric exactly, but wayward and romantic. It is about a trio of middle-aged siblings’ from the Impey family who take on the overpoweringly sad duty of clearing out their enormously grand childhood home in Oxfordshire. The huge medieval manor house Cumnor Place, with its dozens of chimneys, mysterious rooms and staircases was bought by their late mother, the neuroscientist Jane Impey (née Mellanby), with the proceeds of the sale in 1966 of a postcard-sized but hugely valuable painting, Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint George and the Dragon.

Impey died in 2021 and her husband, author and antiquarian Oliver Impey, died in 2005; this left their grownup children with the task of coming to terms with the memory of growing up in what is clearly an extraordinary place. It is magical and chaotic, haunted by these two dominating personalities, full of books, papers, paintings (who knows if there is another one that might be as valuable as the one Mrs Impey sold to buy the place?), huge grounds with a swimming pool, bizarre objects and items everywhere which speak of Oliver Impey’s preoccupation with the image of the dragon.

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