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The Conservatives and Labour have fallen victim to a Brexit backlash from voters in the European elections, with the Brexit Party coasting to victory.

It is customary on nights like last night, where both Labour and the Tories have performed badly, for political journalists to trot out the trusty, if glib cliche, that voters were saying "a plague on both your houses".

Europe is seeing a major political shift as the traditional centre-left and centre-right parties were edged out by populist, environmentalist and far-right parties in the European Parliament elections. 

Michael Gove has insisted he has "evolved" as a politician since previously stating he was "incapable" of being prime minister.

Police have charged a man and a woman with two counts of murdering two teenage boys at a house in Sheffield on Friday.

The Conservatives and Labour have fallen victim to a Brexit backlash from voters in the European elections, with the Brexit Party coasting to victory.

A British man has died after a collision between two yachts near the French city of Cannes.

A businesswoman is set to become the first black person to lead an Oxbridge college after she was elected Master of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Lord Bilimoria, the cross-bench peer who founded Cobra beer and backs a second EU referendum, is being lined up as the next president of the CBI.

Two of the UK's biggest housebuilders have kicked off secret talks about ‎a tie-up just two years after a previous set of merger discussions broke down.

The average US household will be left $831 (£656) worse off as a result of the latest hikes in tariffs on Chinese goods in the nations' trade war, according to economists.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has won approval for a new gene therapy drug which is priced at a record £1.67m per treatment.

Andy Ruiz Jr believes that he has identified Anthony Joshua’s weaknesses and will show him "no respect" in their world heavyweight title fight.

When Jack Grealish leads Aston Villa out at Wembley on Monday, it will be just over a year to the day since he sank to the turf there in last season's play-off final - tired, distraught and forced to watch Fulham celebrate promotion to the Premier League.

Lewis Hamilton has spoken of the "immense" pressure he felt during the Monaco GP to keep Max Verstappen at bay and win in tribute to Niki Lauda.

Mark Wood has been passed fit for England's World Cup opener against South Africa on Thursday after recovering from an ankle problem.

New technologies including video calls are being used in a trial in Manchester to help reduce the strain on stretched NHS services.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has won approval for a new gene therapy drug which is priced at a record £1.67m per treatment.

Elon Musk's private rocket company, SpaceX, has sent 60 small satellites into low orbit as he prepares to launch a new internet service.

Evidence of Kremlin efforts to use social media to target the 2014 European Parliament elections have been uncovered by researchers at Cardiff University.

Moby has publicly apologised to Natalie Portman days after she claimed he had been "creepy" with her when she was younger.

A number of revellers "collapsed" after they were forced to queue for hours to get through security gates at a London festival.

A theatre was evacuated during a Jason Manford comedy gig after an audience member's mobile phone caught fire.

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's dark comedy Parasite has won the coveted Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.