Australian Greens Senator Larissa Waters breastfed her baby daughter, Alia, while moving a motion in the Senate on Thursday, 22 June. Waters made headlines just weeks earlier for being the first federal lawmaker to breastfeed during Senate proceedings, being the first MP to benefit from a new family friendly rule change made in February 2016.
European Council President Donald Tusk quoted British singer John Lennon on June 22, as he was telling reporters he still imagined a possibility that Britain remains in the European Union. Discussing the different possible outcomes of Brexit negotiations at a news conference, Tusk said the EU itself had been built on dreams that seemed impossible to achieve.
Cladding on a number of British tower blocks has been confirmed as combustible in tests conducted after a deadly fire in west London, Prime Minister Theresa May said on 22 June. May was making a statement in the House of Commons about the Grenfell Tower fire, in which 79 people have been confirmed dead, or are missing presumed dead.
Around one hundred people gathered on Parliament Square as part of what organisers had billed as the Day of Rage demonstration on June 21. The anti-government demonstration deliberately coincided with the Queens Speech, with the aim of demanding justice for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.
Around 200 protesters demanding justice for victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster marched from west London to parliament on Wednesday (June 21), a week after the blaze.
Saudi Arabia has removed Muhammad bin Nayef as the crown prince and replaced him with defence minister Mohammed bin Salman in a dramatic changeover in the ultra-conservative kingdoms royal family. Salman, 31, son of King Salman bin Abdulaziz, was previously the countrys deputy crown prince. Nayef, the kings nephew and a familiar face in Washington, was overseeing Saudi Arabias powerful interior ministry in charge of the security affairs of the kingdom. He has now been removed from all his official posts.
During the Queens Speech on 21 June, Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn didnt bow his head, as is tradition, when entering the House of Lords to meet the Queen. Corbyn is a well-known republican and has hit headlines before by flouting conventions surrounding the Queen and the national anthem.
The Queens Speech, which lays out the laws that ministers want to pass in the coming year, took place on 21 June at the Palace of Westminster. Brexit dominated the speech as laws and legislation designed by Theresa May and the Conservatives were laid out to help the process of Britain leaving the EU.
The veteran politician is standing in the Lib Dem leadership contest, after being a member of the party since it first began in 1988.
The United Kingdom and the European Union have taken the first step towards starting formal negotiations over the UKs breakaway from the EU, chief negotiators from both sides announced on Monday June 19.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has reiterated her message to the public that terrorism must not divide the country, as she spoke outside of Number 10 on 19 June. May was addressing the media in the wake of an attack by a man driving a van who rammed into worshippers near a mosque in Finsbury Park in North London.
The London Mayor added that additional police officers will be in place at mosques and other places of worship across all London boroughs. One person was left dead, and ten more injured, after a van ploughed into a crowd outside of a mosque in North London in the early hours of June 19.
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People have taken to social media to share condolences and vent anger and frustration after a terrorist ploughed a white van into a crowd of Muslims following night time prayers during Ramadan at around midnight BST on 19 June.
Police reported that there were no casualties reported since the police did not fight back.