A Labour MP has needed to return to parliament to be sworn in once more every week after he protested in opposition to pledging allegiance to the king as he took the oath.

Clive Lewis, a outstanding supporter of Britain changing into a republic, returned after parliamentary authorities instructed him he won’t be capable of converse within the Commons, vote or obtain a wage, and will even face a byelection if authorized motion was taken in opposition to him beneath the Parliamentary Oaths Act.

The Norwich South MP didn’t consult with “his heirs and successors” after a point out of the king when he stated throughout a swearing in final week: “I take this oath beneath protest and within the hope that someday my fellow residents will democratically resolve to stay in a republic.

“Till that point I do solemnly, sincerely and really declare and affirm that I might be devoted and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, in accordance with regulation.”

Lewis stated on X on Tuesday: “After omitting to swear allegiance to King Charles’ ‘heirs and successors’ final week, I’ve needed to take the oath once more so as to sit within the Home of Commons.

“Nearly all of the general public are dedicated to democracy, and so I hope someday MPs can swear an oath primarily based on these values.”

He additionally posted a photograph of a letter he obtained from the Home of Commons Journal Workplace, which stated his omission of a part of the oath meant there was “doubt about whether or not the style by which you made the affirmation is legally legitimate”.

“If I had not re-sworn the oath, then primarily based on a regulation from 1866, I might be fined, subjected to authorized motion, and my seat ‘shall be vacated in the identical method as if [I] had been lifeless,’” he added. “This could change, so MPs have the selection to swear allegiance to our constituents and democracy.”

The anti-monarchy marketing campaign group Republic stated Lewis had been subjected to “disgraceful remedy”. “Being pressured to swear a nonsense oath to do the job he was elected to do is appalling,” added Graham Smith, the chief government of Republic.

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The chief of Northern Eire’s Social Democratic and Labour occasion, Colum Eastwood, final week stated he was making his oath “beneath protest” and that his true allegiance was to the “individuals of Derry and the individuals of Eire”.

His colleague Claire Hanna prefaced it in Irish and English when she was sworn in, saying: “In friendship and in hope of a reconciled new Eire, my allegiance is to the individuals of Belfast South and Mid Down & I say these phrases so as to serve them.”

The Commons speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, had been ready to sit down for 2 hours on Tuesday to permit MPs to swear in. He adjourned the session after about 36 minutes, with the remaining handful of MPs who’re but to be sworn in anticipated to take action on Wednesday afternoon earlier than the king’s speech debate.

Gibraltar has accused Spanish gamers of constructing “rancid” and “vastly offensive” statements whereas celebrating their Euro 2024 win over England.

Manchester Metropolis star Rodri sang “Gibraltar is Spanish” as he took the mic in entrance of hundreds of followers in Madrid on Monday evening.

Gibraltar has been a British Abroad Territory since 1713, however many in Spain imagine it must be returned and it stays a fragile diplomatic matter.

Rodri’s on-stage antics occurred as he and the opposite gamers partied in entrance of supporters a day after their 2-1 win over the Three Lions.

The soccer affiliation of Gibraltar stated it had “famous the extraordinarily provocative and insulting nature of the celebrations” and would make an official grievance to UEFA.

A press release from the territory’s authorities claimed “a number of” Spanish gamers had chanted “rancid remarks about Gibraltar”.

“It is a completely pointless mixing of sporting success with discriminatory political statements which can be vastly offensive to Gibraltarians,” it added.

Fabian Picardo, Gibraltar’s chief minister, was equally scathing in a submit on X – which he signed off: “The Rock is OURS”.

“Mixing a sporting victory and the mantra that glorifies the dictatorial politics of a mass assassin like Franco and his fascist regime’s try to usurp a neighbouring territory, that can be a UEFA nation, is worse than disgusting.”

“This can’t stand unchallenged,” he added.

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Rodri – who was named participant of the match – and the Spanish soccer affiliation have but to remark.

The remarks come because the UK and Spain are nonetheless making an attempt to finalise a post-Brexit deal for Gibraltar, which wasn’t lined by the settlement struck with the EU in 2020.

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Rafael Nadal apparently isn’t winding down his profession after the Paris Olympics.

The 22-time Grand Slam champion will play the U.S. Open on a protected rating. He was listed among the many match entrants on Tuesday.

Nadal, 38, has received the U.S. Open 4 occasions, most lately in 2019. He final performed the match in 2022.

The U.S. Open runs Aug. 26-Sept. 8.

After skipping Wimbledon to organize for the Olympics at Roland Garros, Nadal returned to singles motion with a 6-3, 6-4 victory on clay over Leo Borg, the 21-year-old son of Swedish nice Bjorn Borg, within the first spherical of the Nordea Open in Bastad on Tuesday.

“For me it has been an enormous honor to play in opposition to the son of one of many largest legends within the historical past of our sport,” Nadal mentioned about his 21-year-old opponent. “I feel he performed fairly properly, he has a future in entrance so I want him all the easiest.”

Nadal received the singles title in southern Sweden as a 19-year-old in 2005 and this week is his first time again since then as he prepares for the Olympic match on clay at Roland Garros in Paris.

Nadal was taking part in his first singles match since he misplaced within the first spherical of the French Open to Alexander Zverev. He teamed up with Casper Ruud on Monday to win a first-round doubles match.

Nadal, who has been coping with hip and stomach accidents over the previous 1 1/2 years, will subsequent face British No. 2 Cameron Norrie.

U.S. Leads All Nations with 25 Gamers Incomes Direct Entry

World No. 1s Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek lead their respective fields within the U.S. Open, adopted by reigning US Open champions Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff, who’re each ranked No. 2 on this planet. World No. 3s Carlos Alcaraz, who has received the previous two Grand Slam males’s singles titles, and Aryna Sabalenka, the reigning Australian Open champion, spherical out the highest entries.

America leads all nations with 25 gamers (15 girls and 10 males) incomes direct entry.

The American girls are led by No. 2 Gauff, No. 6 Jessica Pegula and No. 9 Danielle Collins, whereas the American males within the subject embrace High-15 gamers Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton.

People utilizing particular or protected rankings to achieve direct entry embrace Reilly Opelka (No. 33), Shelby Rogers (No. 51) and Lauren Davis (No. 59).

Each the boys’s and ladies’s entries had been primarily based on the July 15 rankings. The ladies’s cutoff was No. 96, whereas the boys’s cutoff was No. 98.

(The AP contributed reporting)

The Skip Bayless period at Fox Sports activities will come to an finish later this summer season. The longtime co-host of FS1’s “Undisputed” and Fox Sports activities have agreed to half methods, sources briefed on the choice confirmed Monday.

The New York Publish’s Ryan Glasspiegel first reported the information.

Bayless arrived with a lot fanfare at Fox Sports activities in 2016 following 12 years at ESPN and a distinguished position on “First Take” alongside Stephen A Smith. Whereas ESPN needed to retain him, Fox Sports activities made a considerably bigger supply and the host headed West in the hunt for new bloviating fame.

Fox Sports activities executives promised to construct a debate present round Bayless’s persona — and that they did. The present discovered an viewers with Bayless and accomplice Shannon Sharpe — and positively did nicely on social platforms — however did not duplicate linear success after Sharpe left for ESPN in 2023. (Sharpe just lately signed a multi-year cope with ESPN to stay a key participant on “First Take” alongside Smith.)

As for viewership struggles, Sports activities Media Watch editor Jon Lewis reported that the present drew simply 50,000 viewers for a late February episode and was outdrawn by a first-round Dubai Open tennis match between Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Shevchenko, which averaged 54,000 on Tennis Channel.

Fox Sports activities declined to remark.

Sources briefed on the choice stated there was a risk the “Undisputed” identify could be retired and a brand new present would are available place however these discussions are ongoing.

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The Biden-Harris marketing campaign has spoken out towards mannequin and TV character Amber Rose for her endorsement of Donald Trump.

On Monday (July 15), Rose, a former girlfriend of Kanye West, took to the stage on the Republican Nationwide Conference to announce her help for the previous president. She claimed the media “lied to us” about Trump.

In response, the Biden-Harris marketing campaign’s senior spokesperson Sarafina Chitika mentioned in an announcement: “Amber Rose is correct about one factor: analysis is essential.

“Since we’re speaking about information, we introduced receipts: Rose mentioned American households had been higher off when Trump was president – and if she’s speaking about his billionaire donors, she’s proper.

“However for Black communities, it’s the alternative story: Black unemployment, Black uninsured charges, and crime charges skyrocketed beneath Trump’s management, as a result of the reality is straightforward – Donald Trump doesn’t care about us, our lives, or our livelihoods.”

Chitika concluded: “A vote for Donald Trump is a vote to line the pockets of millionaires like Rose on the expense of precise Black communities, and people are the information.”

Rose spoke on day one of many Republican conference, not lengthy after Trump arrived to a raucous welcome with a bandage on his ear after surviving an assassination try on the weekend.

Simply hours earlier, he had introduced Ohio Senator JD Vance as his vice presidential choose.

From the stage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rose, a mom of two, mentioned: “I’m right here tonight to let you know, irrespective of your political background, that the perfect likelihood we have now to provide our infants a greater life is to elect Donald Trump president of america.”

She went on to say that whereas she is “no politician,” she does “care concerning the reality, and the reality is that the media has lied to us about Donald Trump.”

“I do know this as a result of, for a very long time, I believed these lies,” she mentioned, because the digital camera panned to a grinning Trump within the crowd.

Rose defined that she was beforehand important of Trump, saying that she had “believed the left-wing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist” and was shocked when her father had beforehand informed her he was going to vote for him.

Nevertheless, her opinion began to shift when she watched “all of the rallies” and began to satisfy so lots of his “purple hat-wearing supporters.”

“I spotted Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care should you’re Black, white, homosexual or straight. It’s all love,” Rose mentioned. “And that’s when it hit me: These are my individuals. That is the place I belong.”

After letting go of her “concern of judgment” and being “attacked by the left,” the TV character mentioned that’s when she determined to don the “purple hat” too.

Sports activities speak character Skip Bayless is leaving FS1’s “Undisputed” later this summer time, in keeping with a number of stories.

Bayless has been with FOX Sports activities for eight years, becoming a member of the community in 2016 after a 12-year run at ESPN.

The New York Put up was the primary to report the information.

FOX Sports activities didn’t instantly reply to USA TODAY Sports activities’ request for remark.

This may be the second consecutive summer time during which the present had one in every of its key hosts depart. In June 2023, Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer Shannon Sharpe left the present after working alongside Bayless for the reason that present’s inception in 2016. Sharpe then moved on to ESPN’s “First Take,” becoming a member of one other well-known sports activities speak character, Stephen A. Smith. Sharpe lately signed a multiyear contract extension with ESPN.

With Sharpe now not with the present, former NFL gamers Michael Irvin, Keyshawn Johnson and Richard Sherman, in addition to NBA legend Paul Pierce, stuffed the void on “Undisputed” alongside Bayless.

The 72-year-old Bayless began his media profession within the mid-Nineteen Seventies overlaying sports activities for newspapers such because the Miami Herald, Los Angeles Occasions and Dallas Morning Information.

Bianca Censori’s most ‘excessive’ outfit but is the most recent in an extended listing of outraging public decency incidents around the globe – and has seen her teetering on the very fringe of the legislation. 

Her choice to go topless in LA raises but extra questions on whether or not on the orders of husband Kanye West due to a PR conflict together with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.

And specialists have informed MailOnline that she is going to maintain going additional as her ‘determined try for publicity’ continues.

From LA to Tokyo and Berlin to Paris and Venice, Bianca’s more and more stunning and shrinking outfits have been getting her in troubles with the authorities around the globe.

She might now face jail time, a positive and obligatory registration as a intercourse offender for her newest X-rated stunt in Los Angeles on Monday. 

Mark Borkowski, arguably Britain’s main PR guru, informed MailOnline: ‘The place does it finish. She clearly could be very snug along with her public picture and demonstrates it with this excessive vogue assertion. I can solely assume this can be a thought-about act. It feels to be a determined try for publicity. It looks like a dwelling embodiment of the Empress has no garments’.

Bianca has continued to push the boundaries of vogue to the very restrict since she received along with Kanye – and there are questions on whether or not she is the supply of the concepts or just West’s muse.

Listed here are Bianca’s most outrageous outfits and the warmth they’ve introduced around the globe.

Venice, August 2023 

The couple, who have been first pictured collectively in January 2023, sparked scandal after scandal, not least due to the extremely raunchy outfits that the 28-year-old architect was seen sporting in the course of the couple’s journey to Italy.

They additional enraged Italians throughout a current journey to Venice after they have been caught allegedly partaking in a lewd act on a ship, with the 46-year-old rapper baring his bare buttocks in public. 

Now, a supply has solely revealed to DailyMail.com that involved mates have been desperately making an attempt to succeed in out to the Australian magnificence – solely to be informed they need to ‘f**okay off’ once they lastly managed to attach along with her.

Police requested photographers at hand over the photographs that went around the globe.

A Venice police supply informed DailyMail.com: ‘There are requirements of public decorum that must be adopted by vacationers and locals alike and any breaches are severely punished.’

Tuscany: August 2023 

The chaos and circus surrounding Bianca Censori and Kanye West started final summer season.

The couple went on a European vacation and Bianca started sporting daring outfit after daring outfit.

Controversial rapper Kanye was seen together with his spouse, who rocked a see by means of outfit whereas out in Tuscany.

Florence, September 2023 

Kanye and Bianca placed on a weird show in Italy.

Censori, who has worn a slew of eccentric outfits in the course of the couple’s Italian getaway, was noticed strolling the streets of Florence nearly topless whereas holding a purple cushion over her chest to cowl up her breasts.

West, 46, in the meantime strolled beside the Australian architect in an all-black ensemble together with an odd scarf and sock-like slippers.

In a humiliating twist, images of have emerged of onlookers laughing on the pair behind their again as they made their approach down the cobblestone footpath.

On-line critics have additionally mocked West and Censori for trying to look edgy, but failing so spectacularly.

London, September 2023 

In London final September, she coated up (a bit).

The 46-year-old rapper’s companion donned a quite avant-garde look as she headed to a London Trend Week Present hosted by Tom Brady’s girlfriend and Kanye’s ex Irina Shayk on Friday night.

Maybe essentially the most head-turning component of Bianca’s look was a large white wig that she sported which featured fringe which utterly coated her eyes ala Sia on the Mowalola SS24 catwalk present.

Regardless of being extra coated up than her newer outings, she nonetheless managed to showcase her gorgeous determine in a clinging white crocheted bodysuit.

One factor that the stunner needed to implement in her ensemble was her signature sweaty perspex pumps as she strutted her stuff right down to the entrance row of the style present.

Berlin, September 2023 

Kanye West and Bianca confirmed no indicators of ending their months-long European trip with a kebab-filled break to Berlin.

The journey was stuffed with controversy due to her revealing outfits and their outrageous public antics.

The odd couple – who has been holidaying in Italy all through August and into September – have been pictured standing in line at a well-liked kebab store in Berlin, Germany on Thursday, with Bianca sporting one more eyebrow-raising ensemble.

Kanye, 46, who additionally goes by ‘Ye,’ had his face coated balaclava-style with a bit of black material, whereas Bianca, believed to be 28, confirmed off her massive cleavage in a Spanx-assisted garment, as they stood in step with most people for the roasted meat deal with.

Florence, September 2023 

Kanye West and his then new ‘spouse’ Bianca Censori brought on a significant frenzy whereas procuring within the tourist-heavy Through dei Calzaiuoli in Florence, Italy.

West went into photographer mode as he directed the busty bombshell as she posed with excited locals in one other one in every of her daring nude seems to be.

Surrounded by adoring followers, Censori confirmed off her sensational determine in a skintight leotard styled with sheeny pantyhose and pointy kitten heels.

Between takes, West stopped to regulate the Yeezy architect’s flesh-flashing outfit to make sure the absolute best shot on his iPhone.

Two weeks earlier, the couple sparked main controversy within the metropolis of Venice after they have been caught placing on a graphic show behind a river taxi.

DailyMail.com solely reported on the time that police have been investigating the couple over the ‘disrespectful’ incident that included West exposing his naked buttocks in public as Censori curiously knelt earlier than him along with her head in his lap.

Miami, December 2023 

Kanye West’s spouse Bianca Censori bared all once more for an evening in town in Miami as she donned an eyepopping silver string ensemble whereas stepping out with the rapper.

Censori, 28, flaunted her toned legs and pert posterior in a glittering silver string bodysuit paired with a 20s-inspired headpiece.

She sported a glamorous palette of make-up with smoky shadow and nude lipgloss. 

She protected her modesty as soon as once more with a creepy toy teddy bear clutched to her chest as she strolled alongside a bizarrely attired West, 46.

West wore a black masking over his head paired with a leather-based coat, black tee and slouchy boots.

LA, February 2024

Bianca Censori was on a mission to show the standard rain poncho is also 2024’s hottest new vogue development as she made a showstopping arrival to a Los Angeles music studio. 

Proving that far much less is extra, the 29-year-old Australian architect wore completely nothing beneath her cagoule, going utterly bare bar a pair of knee excessive black boots. 

Branding throughout the entrance of the coat helped protect her ample chest, but she was compelled to put her hand over her groin to guard her modesty. 

Her different hand was firmly grasped by husband Kanye West, who additionally seemed to be taking no probabilities with the Pineapple Categorical storm pummelling the West Coast, as he donned an outsized khaki poncho with black rain boots. 

Paris, February 2024 

Bianca Censori was warned she might face jail or a positive of €15,000 after testing the legal guidelines of exhibitionism in Paris.

The Yeezy architect, 29, wore her most specific outfit thus far as she went underwear free beneath a pair of sheer stockings throughout a public outing with husband Kanye West.

Bianca didn’t try to hide her genitals or naked bottom within the garment as crowds of shocked onlookers rushed to take footage.

She additionally didn’t look like sporting a shirt or bra below a cropped fur coat as she returned to the Ritz Resort with hoodie-clad Kanye after having fun with dinner at Ferdi.

French officers have been stated to have been taking a look at whether or not she was in breach of their decency legal guidelines.

Chatting with MailOnline on Friday some Parisians deemed her outfits to be ‘worrying’ and claimed Kanye’s ‘publicity stunts’ have been each ‘unusual’ and ‘harmful.’

Sarra Sean, a 20-year-old linguist, stated: ‘She’s free to do what she needs along with her personal physique, however it’s a bit bizarre.

‘I’m not that into celebrities, however there clearly needs to be some concern if a well-known individual is appearing surprisingly. A few of Kanye’s political statements have been very worrying currently.’

San Zaya, 18, a scholar, stated each Bianca Censori and Kanya West had a duty to ‘be a great instance to younger folks.’

Paris, June 2024 

Bianca was again in Paris having not heeded warnings of potential arrest. 

She ‘paraded’ with new bubblegum pink hair and her most ‘excessive’ outfit but on the orders of husband Kanye West, it was claimed.

Though Kanye arrived individually on the unique Italian restaurant Gigi, Bianca’s new hair and gown has all of the hallmarks of a stunt by the rapper in response to Kim Kardashian’s new white-blonde hair.

Bianca’s outfit, made out of such flimsy sticky tape it started falling aside, additionally appeared remarkably like Kim’s 2016 outfit that additionally barely coated her breasts.

Tokyo, June 2024 

Japanese locals have been left outraged after Kanye West’s spouse Bianca Censori placed on one other stunning show throughout a procuring journey in Tokyo this week.

Censori, 29, flaunted her bottom in a ribbed cream G-string leotard as she walked by means of a public shopping center with West, 47.

She additionally went braless within the sheer ensemble, showing to depart store assistants shocked over her apparel.

Critics have slammed Censori’s show, with one arguing it needs to be thought-about ‘public indecency’, a cost which comes with a positive of as much as 300,000 yen (AU$2,878), in accordance with The Penal Code of Japan.

‘As a Japanese nationwide I’m disgusted. That is dangerous behaviour. I do not perceive the necessity to blatantly expose your self like this. It’s unacceptable,’ one individual stated.

Los Angeles, July 2024 

Bianca Censori might face jail time, a positive and obligatory registration as a intercourse offender for her newest X-rated stunt in Los Angeles on Monday.

The Australian architect, 29, shocked onlookers as she totally uncovered her breasts in a very see-through netted high on her solution to the Melrose Tanning Firm salon.

Bianca, who is understood for her barely-there seems to be, opted to not put on a bra and solely added a pair of tiny beige underwear, heels and a camouflage print hat.

Regardless of repeatedly stepping out in racy ensembles, her newest look might have gone too far nevertheless, because it might doubtlessly be thought-about indecent publicity below California legislation. 

California Penal Code Part 314(1) makes it a crime to deliberately expose your genitals or bare physique in a public place, or wherever else the place somebody might be offended or irritated.