British lawmaker News

"I was told that at the reshuffle meeting in Downing Street that my ‘Muslim women minister’ status was making colleagues uncomfortable," Ghani, Britain`s first female Muslim minister, said.

The British lawmaker who beat Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage in a 2015 national election battle has been charged with criminal offences related to spending on the campaign, prosecutors said on Friday, a week before a fresh national election.

A man obsessed with Nazis and white supremacism was sentenced to life in jail on Wednesday for the murder of British lawmaker Jo Cox in a frenzied street attack which stunned Britain a week before the European Union referendum.

British lawmaker Jo Cox, who was shot and stabbed in the street last week, died because of her strong political views, her husband said on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama condemned Friday the "heinous" murder of Jo Cox, as he offered condolences to the British lawmaker`s widower and praised her "selfless service."

British police investigating the murder of lawmaker Jo Cox said today they were focusing on alleged links to far-right groups and reports that her suspected attacker, who remains in custody, was mentally ill.

Tearful mourners laid flowers outside the British parliament Thursday in memory of pro-EU lawmaker Jo Cox.