The Prime Minister made the announcement on Wednesday evening at a meeting of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers. She told the gathering she knew Tory MPs did not want her to lead the next phase of Brexit negotiations “and I won’t stand in the way of that”. The move is a last-ditch attempt to […]
A survey undertaken by Ipsos MORI shows Theresa May’s Government has the worst public satisfaction ratings in comparison to David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, John Major and Margaret Thatcher’s Governments. Another survey of 1050 British adults saw them firmly place the blame of a no deal Brexit (should it happen) on the UK Government […]
More than 5.75million people signed the petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked. But in its official response to the petition, the Department for Exiting the EU said it “remains the Government’s firm policy not to revoke Article 50”. The Department for Exiting the EU said: “We will honour the outcome of the 2016 referendum and […]
Tory MP Suella Braverman has been slammed by anti-racism charities and Jewish groups for using the 'anti-Semitic trope' Cultural Marxism. The Brexiteer told a meeting of the eurosceptic Bruges Group on Tuesday that her party was engaged in "a fight against cultural Marxism" being led by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn . She used the term […]
WASHINGTON — When President Trump’s trade team presented Chinese officials with a list of bold economic demands in Beijing last May, one of China’s state-controlled news outlets, Global Times, panned the request and blared a curious headline: “Is it now 1840?” Five months later, China’s national news agency, Xinhua, accused Vice President Mike Pence of […]
His fellow hard-liner Boris Johnson was also expected to capitulate and fall in line with Theresa May today. The volte-face has boosted the Prime Minister’s chances of winning a third vote on the withdrawal agreement. Mr Rees-Mogg, who chairs the Eurosceptic European Research Group, said he will support the deal if the Democratic Unionist Party […]
MPs have seized control of Brexit from Theresa May – and will now vote on options to "test the will of Parliament". They made the decision in a historic vote on Monday night, upturning the convention that the Prime Minister decides how time is split up in the House of Commons. MPs defeated the PM […]
Good Wednesday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. _____________________ • A new fight over the Affordable Care Act broke out on Tuesday, as Democrats denounced the Trump administration for asking a federal appeals court to invalidate it. The surprise decision, which could leave 21 million people without […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution directing the Justice Department to give Congress all records on FBI obstruction of justice or counterintelligence probes against President Donald Trump. In a surprising show of bipartisanship, days after U.S. Attorney General William Barr told Congress he did not find an […]
Amid ongoing talks between the Ontario government and the City of Toronto about uploading the TTC’s subway system, newly released documents from the province raise the possibility of major changes to several transit projects. Toronto city council is set to vote during its meeting on Wednesday on whether to spend $2 million towards hiring additional […]