The Conservative Party is heading for a SPLIT, a top MP has warned after more than half of backbenchers voted no confidence in Theresa May. Nicky Morgan, a Remain-backer and chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, sounded the alert after 117 MPs revolted against the PM. Mrs May has faced Brexiteer demands to quit after […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bob Goodlatte, outgoing chair of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, pressed the Justice Department’s Makan Delrahim on Wednesday to support legislation that would make it easier for the U.S. government to sue to stop OPEC members from pushing up oil prices. Goodlatte, a Republican, noted that the Organization of the Petroleum […]
BRITISH Prime Minister Theresa May has secured enough votes to stay on as Conservative party leader after fighting off an attempt to oust her through a confidence vote. Conservative MPs voted by 200 to 117 in the secret ballot in Westminster, Conservative 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady announced. Failure in the ballot would have […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon is being “a little bit disingenuous” when it says that Congress would be putting the armed forces at risk if it did not approve an increased defense budget, a key U.S. congressman said on Wednesday. The Pentagon’s pick to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command said last week […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would intervene in the Justice Department’s case against a top executive at China’s Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] if it would serve national security interests or help close a trade deal with China. Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada Dec. 1 and […]
Owen Paterson, the former Northern Ireland and environment secretary, sent his letter to the chairman of the 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady, which was published in The Daily Telegraph. He said Mrs May failed to prepare for a “no-deal” Brexit and that the UK approached talks like a “feeble and unworthy supplicant”. Here is his […]
A Tory MP compared Theresa May to Adolf Hitler and suggested the Prime Minister would end up killing herself. During a debate on Brexit, Nadine Dorries turned on her own party leader, saying: "The Prime Minister I think is being very badly advised by third-rate advisers in Number 10. "I saw our Whips office being […]
Jeremy Corbyn being put under pressure to call a no confidence vote in Theresa May’s government. The SNP, Lib Dems and some of his own MPs want him to act after the shameless PM pulled a vote on her Brexit deal. Labour’s leader insists he will force a no confidence vote – but not yet. […]
City of Kawartha Lakes Mayor Andy Letham said he had a “great conversation” with Premier Doug Ford on a number of issues on Monday. Letham was invited to a one-on-one meeting with Ford at Queen’s Park, one of seven meetings Ford held with mayors from across the province. Letham said the issues discussed included providing […]
Guelph Mayor Cam Guthrie says Premier Doug Ford was eager to hear the issues affecting the Royal City after the two met on Monday morning at Queen’s Park. Guthrie was one of seven southern Ontario mayors who received an invite from Ford for a one-on-one chat. “I definitely jumped at the opportunity to bring the […]