No Deal Brexit planning reportedly started in secret this week amid fears that trade talks with the EU will collapse bringing about a so-called 'disorderly December'. The Whitehall EU Exit Operations committee met to prepare for the possibility that no agreement is reached with Brussels by the end of the year, a minister claimed. The […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. lawmakers managing the impeachment case against Donald Trump filed a brief on Saturday laying out their arguments supporting charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress against the president. The Democratic House of Representatives impeachment managers faced a deadline of 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) on Saturday to file […]
Labour has nominated former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow for a peerage. He has been selected alongside former Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson and Jeremy Corbyn ’s former chief of staff Karie Murphy of the Scottish Labour Party. She led the party’s disastrous general election campaign. All three appear on Corbyn’s […]
And the final hour before the country’s formal exit at 11pm on January 31 will be counted down second-by-second on a massive digital clock projected onto the facade of 10 Downing Street. Details of the package measures to mark Brexit Day were released by Mr Johnson’s officials yesterday in an attempt to quell the row over […]
Politics is actually quite simple – the problem is politicians complicate it. So let me be as clear as I can be. The case for committing the next Labour government to putting UK manufacturing and domestic steel first, couldn’t be clearer. It will create the decent jobs across the whole of the UK we desperately […]
Northern Ireland’s return to democracy is the silver lining in a black cloud election. Voters fed up with political deadlock gave the two main parties a kicking in the ballot box. Support for Sinn Fein and the so-called Democratic Unionist Party fell, bringing the moderate SDLP and non-sectarian Alliance to Westminster. The DUP lost two […]
Momentum today announced it will back Rebecca Long-Bailey for the Labour leadership. The announcement by the Corbyn-backing campaign group will surprise few – but could prove a major boost to the left-wing hopeful. Momentum, set up in 2015 to support Mr Corbyn, has tens of thousands of members who could have an influential role in […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – The mystery of what presidential rivals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders said to each other in a heated exchange after Tuesday night’s Democratic debate has been solved, with debate host CNN revealing that Warren accused Sanders of calling her a liar on national television. In an exchange caught on camera […]
Richard Tice caused a stir at the EU Parliament when he called on the other 27 countries to “follow the UK’s lead” and exit the union. The Brexit Party chairman spoke about the “bright” future opportunities now that Brexit is due to happen at the end of January. The Parliament was debating their position on […]
An overwhelming majority of those surveyed believe the famous bell should ring out “loud and clear” in London to celebrate Britain’s historic exit from the European Union. On Monday, the House of Commons Commission ruled out the idea after it was revealed costs could soar to £500,000 for every chime – up from the original […]