Booing crowds threatened to drown out Boris Johnson's desperate Downing Street speech, as he made a last-ditch bid to convince MPs not to delay Brexit. Protesters chanted "stop the coup" as the PM gave opposition MPs an ultimatum – urging them to back his plan to crash Britain out of the EU on October 31. […]
U.S. Attorney General William Barr has drafted legislation that would speed the death penalty for people who have committed mass murder, a White House official said on Monday. Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, told reporters on Air Force 2 that the measure would be part of a package of gun […]
Meanwhile Labour’s Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer has accused the Prime Minister of “rank hypocrisy”, while former Tory-turned-independent Nick Boles has branded him Britain’s Trump”. The increasingly febrile atmosphere swirling around Parliament has seen plotters draw up plans to table legislation which would require the Government to seek a further extension to Article 50, which if […]
Boris Johnson is not Prime Minister. Jeremy Corbyn won the vote of no confidence in Theresa May that was called on January 15, 2019, and entered government without a general election. John McDonnell put him in a taxi and sent him to Buckingham Palace, where a bemused Queen and an even-more bemused Corbyn agreed he […]
SINGAPORE – National water agency PUB is greasing drain walls to trap midges when they land to rest, and placing an extra kilometre of netting on reservoir dykes to capture adult midges that might be blown into residential estates. These measures, which are being introduced in local reservoirs here, are in addition to the PUB’s […]
We just need more women. Through Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, Carly Fiorina and Michele Bachmann, that’s the argument that strategists, political scientists and pollsters focusing on female candidates make about the race for the White House. More women means less attention on pantsuits and more on political strategy. More women means a candidate is […]
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A decline in economic activity in the U.S. Midwest, apparent in a little-noticed report on Friday from the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, adds to evidence of slowing growth in factory-heavy corners of the country key to next year’s U.S. presidential election. Republican U.S. President Donald Trump won the White House three […]
Boris Johnson’s government has been branded an “elective dictatorship” after one of his top ministers raised the prospect of ignoring legislation passed by MPs aimed at blocking a no-deal Brexit. MPs opposed to a no-deal departure are expected to begin efforts on Tuesday – when parliament returns from its summer break – aimed at forcing […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A month after a white gunman targeting Latinos killed 22 people in El Paso, Texas, the Democratic-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee will consider new legislation to address rising fears about a convergence of mass shootings and hate crimes. Democrats who control the House of Representatives passed gun bills meant to tighten background […]
Mr Davis was a prominent Brexiteer and spent three years as Europe Minister in the John Major Government under Douglas Hurd and Malcolm Rifkind. He was the first Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union but resigned due to opposition to the Chequers agreement, with the role since held by Dominic Raab and Stephen Barclay. […]