WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump goes on trial in the U.S. Senate this week on charges he abused his office and obstructed Congress, with one of the most contentious questions still unresolved – should senators hear from witnesses? Senate Democrats in the Republican-controlled chamber want four current and former Trump administration officials to testify. […]
Gordon Brown has called for sweeping constitutional changes including a “council of the north” to avoid the break-up of the United Kingdom. The former prime minister criticised what he called “cosmetic gestures” by Boris Johnson, who has suggested moving the House of Lords to York in a bid to burst the Westminster bubble. But Mr […]
The UK is set to leave the trade bloc on January 31 and according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), there were a total of 1,441 company applicants to enter Britain between 2018 and 2019. Under the temporary permission regime, European companies will be allowed to operate in Britain after Brexit but they will eventually […]
Labour leadership challenger Jess Phillips has urged men to “pass the mic” on the top job arguing it would be “embarrassing” if Labour failed to elect a woman. The prominent backbencher warned it would “look bad” and also hand “ammunition” to political opponents, who were “laughing at us”. Unlike the Conservatives, Labour has never had […]
The claims suggest that the Government’s radical immigration plans will be brought forward by two years, this would remove a temporary extension of the current rules until 2023 that had been demanded by business groups and promised by Theresa May. Mr Johnson is planning to introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system. During the election campaign, […]
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 […]