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  Bangla Mirror Desk : The number of alleged hate crimes reported to a police website have risen by 57% after the UK voted to leave the European Union. The 85 reports to True Vision between Thursday and Sunday came as the Prime Minister called for racially-motivated attacks in the wake of the vote must be “stamped out”. Gwent Police ...

  Bangla Mirror Desk: Labour MPs are expected to announce a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership after a motion of no confidence in him was supported by three-quarters of the parliamentary party. Two possible candidates are the party’s deputy leader Tom Watson and ex-shadow business secretary Angela Eagle. But Mr Corbyn has said he would not “betray” his supporters by ...

In a recent statement Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs said: “Whilst we don’t currently know what wider impact Brexit will have, the reports of a short term rise in racially motivated abuse in some areas is very concerning. Thankfully we have not yet seen any evidence of a spike in these incidents in Tower Hamlets but I have asked ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: European leaders insisted Britain must allow freedom of movement if it wanted to access the single market during their first meeting in Brussels without the UK. “There will be no single market a la carte,” said Donald Tusk, the EU Council president, as the group met to set out the terms of engagement for any divorce talks ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Boris Johnson and Theresa May will battle it out to prove to the Conservative Party that they are the leader to reunite the country in the wake of the Brexit vote, as the race to become the next Prime Minister starts in earnest. Both candidates have spent a frantic 48 hours in Westminster mustering support, with nominations ...

David Cameron has said he intends to stand down as Conservative Party leader and prime minister following the UK’s decision to leave the EU. He says his successor should be elected by the time of the party’s conference in October. What are the rules and who are the leading candidates? The party’s 1922 committee will oversee the contest. Its executive ...

The ‘Quality of Nationality Index’ ranks how helpful it is to be from specific places – and the British just fell a long way down it. The value of having a British passport has plunged in the wake of Brexit, as UK citizens’ right to travel the world is under threat. Britain was once among the top passports in the Quality ...

Prologue “We not only have a parliamentary democracy, but on questions about the arrangements for how we’ve governed there are times when it is right to ask the people themselves and that is what we have done…The British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected…The will of the British people is an instruction ...

A man claiming to have started the petition for a second EU referendum is as a right-wing activist who voted for Brexit, it has emerged. Oliver Healey, who is a candidate for the far-right English Democrats party, complained the petition has been “hijacked” by Remain campaigners. Three million people signed it in a matter of days as Remain backers seek ...

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Holyrood could block the Brexit process as the fallout from the EU referendum continues. Support among Scots for remaining in the EU was at 62 per cent in Thursday’s referendum, compared to 48 per cent in the UK as a whole. Ms Sturgeon said Scotland had voted “overwhelmingly” to stay part of the European ...