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Brexit news latest: Is general election way to save Brexit DEADLOCK? Latest bookies odds

Prime Minister Theresa May faces another tough week as she battles to keep her Brexit plan alive while fending off revolts from senior ministers. MPs will once again try to back alternative suggestions to the Prime Minister’s existing EU withdrawal agreement on Monday in the second round of indicative votes. Not one single option was backed by […]

Joe Biden Says He Did Not Act Inappropriately With Lucy Flores

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., under pressure to respond to allegations that he touched and kissed a former Nevada assemblywoman, Lucy Flores, went on the defensive Sunday morning with a sweeping statement saying he did not believe he acted inappropriately but acknowledging that he had made “expressions of affection” during his years on […]

Tories warn May against calling snap election to end Brexit crisis

Tory MPs on both sides of the Brexit debate have told Theresa May they will resist any attempt by her to call a snap general election in a bid to end the crisis engulfing the party. Leavers and Remainers fear the party is in no state to fight an election if she goes to the country […]

Gordon Brown says Brexit should be DELAYED to hold citizens’ assemblies across UK

Former British Prime Minister Mr Brown said the UK needs a one-year long extension to “reunite a divided country”. During this time, the former Labour leader believes, the Government should hold citizens’ assemblies and ask British citizens face to face what type of relationship they want to have with the EU in the future. He […]

Joe Biden Accused of Touching and Kissing Nevada Assemblywoman in 2014

A former Nevada state assemblywoman has accused Joseph R. Biden Jr. of touching and kissing her at a 2014 campaign event for Democrats in what she called a mortifying episode that left her feeling “powerless to do anything about it.’’ In an essay published on Friday by New York Magazine’s The Cut, the former assemblywoman, […]

Remain MP Dominic Grieve suffers no confidence vote

Prominent Conservative Remainer Dominic Grieve has suffered a vote of no confidence in his constituency by 182 to 131 votes. The former attorney general was one of the MPs behind the cross-party move to seize control of House of Commons business to stage a series of indicative votes on alternatives to Theresa May’s deal. He backs […]

Merkel and Macron to demand a Border plan

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron will heap pressure on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar over plans for a no-deal Brexit border in crunch talks next week. Renewed chaos broke out after Westminster once again rejected British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement with the EU. The move prompted the European Commission to say […]

White House Blames Fed for Slowing Economic Growth

President Trump and his top economic adviser criticized the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate increases again on Friday, blaming the central bank for hindering economic growth while denying any suggestion of a looming slowdown. Just one day after the Commerce Department said the economy slowed more sharply at the end of last year than previously […]