UK local elections: Conservatives battered as Labour surges

"The Conservatives have been in power nationally since 2010, years that saw austerity following the world global banking crisis, Britain's divisive decision to leave the European Union, a global pandemic and a European war that has triggered the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades."

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"Worryingly for Sunak's party, the Conservatives lost ground both in working-class northern areas that they previously won from Labour - largely by championing Britain's exit from the European Union - and in more affluent southern districts where anti-Brexit voters have turned to the Lib Dems or Labour."

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"First, it was multiple, overlapping things -- everything from an attempt to steal an election to violent thugs using politics as an excuse for mayhem to Trump supporters whipped up into a mob by a speech to idiots joining in the aftermath to take pics for their social media -- rather than one thing."

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"AP ("Proud Boys' Tarrio guilty of Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy"):nnFormer Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group were convicted Thursday of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election."

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""The argument is that just because defendants associated with people who did bad acts, they did bad acts," Nicholas Smith, Mr. Nordean's lawyer, said in court."

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"It's a significant milestone for the Justice Department, which has now secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the leaders of two major extremist groups prosecutors say were intent on keeping Democratic President Joe Biden out of the White House at all costs."

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"Tarrio, Nordean, Biggs and Rehl were also convicted of obstructing Congress' certification of Biden's electoral victory and obstructing law enforcement as well as two other conspiracy charges."

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"Special Counsel Jack Smith in recent weeks has sought the testimony of many people close to Trump."

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"Three defendants were acquitted of the sedition charge, but convicted of obstructing Congress' certification of Biden's electoral victory."

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"Securing the conviction of Tarrio, a high-profile leader who wasn't at the riot itself, could embolden the Justice Department as a special counsel investigates Trump, including key aspects of the Jan. 6 insurrection."

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"Even if there were no explicit orders to attack the Capitol that day, he said, members of the group believed there was an implicit agreement to band together and to take the lead in waging "all-out revolution" to stop Mr. Biden from entering the White House."

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"They include former Vice President Mike Pence, who testified before a grand jury last week, likely giving prosecutors a key first-person account about certain conversations and events in the weeks preceding the riot."

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"To build a case against the five men on trial, prosecutors convinced Judge Kelly to let them introduce videos of other Proud Boys and Trump supporters in the crowd who had acted violently, even if they had only limited connections to the defendants."

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"He led the neo-fascist group -- known for street fights with left-wing activists -- when Trump infamously told the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" during his first debate with Biden."

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"He led the neo-fascist group -- known for street fights with left-wing activists -- when Trump infamously told the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" during his first debate with Biden."

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""It was Donald Trump's words."

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"The backbone of the government's case was hundreds of messages exchanged by Proud Boys in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that show the far-right extremist group peddling Trump's false claims of a stolen election and trading fears over what would happen when Biden took office."

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"The backbone of the government's case was hundreds of messages exchanged by Proud Boys in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that show the far-right extremist group peddling Trump's false claims of a stolen election and trading fears over what would happen when Biden took office."

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"[...]nnThe backbone of the government's case was hundreds of messages exchanged by Proud Boys in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that show the far-right extremist group peddling Trump's false claims of a stolen election and trading fears over what would happen when Biden took office."

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"[...]nnThe backbone of the government's case was hundreds of messages exchanged by Proud Boys in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that show the far-right extremist group peddling Trump's false claims of a stolen election and trading fears over what would happen when Biden took office."

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"Over the course of two Oath Keepers trials, Rhodes and five other members were convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors said was a separate plot to forcibly halt the transfer of presidential power from Trump to Biden."

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"Over the course of two Oath Keepers trials, Rhodes and five other members were convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors said was a separate plot to forcibly halt the transfer of presidential power from Trump to Biden."

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