Brexit will be delayed by at least a fortnight, after EU leaders agreed last night that they didn’t want Britain to face a cliff-edge in a week’s time. They told Theresa May that if MPs back her deal next week the UK would leave on 22 May. If she fails to get the Commons’ backing, she would have until 12 April to decide on what to do next.
Mike Galsworthy, a behavioural genetics doctor and pro-EU activist, and Steven Edginton, chief digital strategist at Leave Means Leave, discuss the Article 50 e-petition.
People can sign from all over the world, and there doesn’t appear to be a way of definitively checking their nationality or residency.
In southern Africa, the first reports are emerging of an outbreak of cholera as conditions worsen for those affected by Cyclone Idai. We report from Beira, the port city in the centre of Mozambique which has been isolated by the flood.
A convicted IRA terrorist has told a court the names of four men he claims were responsible for the Birmingham pub bombings, 45 years ago.
Officials took issue with his claim that he’d become a Christian because it was a peaceful religion. A rejection letter from the Home Office quoted violent passages from the Bible.
For the people who were forced out, the campaign to return home has been painful and long drawn out – with the British government fighting every step of the way.
New Zealand stopped to reflect today, a week after the killing of 50 people at mosques in Christchurch. The country’s Prime Minister stood with those affected by the shootings as the Muslim call to prayer was broadcast across the country.
Independent Group MP Anna Soubry discusses the Brexit process – and the threats she has received because of her pro-EU views.
Children’s Minister Nadhim Zahawi discusses the Brexit process.
We spoke to the Belgian MEP, Philippe Lamberts who is on Brexit Steering Group in the European Parliament, and asked him if European leaders have now given up on Theresa May getting her deal through.
Gary Gibbon
At his end of summit press conference in Brussels, France’s President Macron has been explaining why he didn’t want an “crisis summit next week” as it could land the EU with “responsibility” for a No Deal Brexit and the EU27 would’ve lost the “blame game”.
Trade Unions and CBI joined forces today to warn that the UK is facing a “national emergency”. The have written to the Prime Minister demanding that a Plan B is drawn up to avoid a No-Deal departure in eight day’s time. Carolyn Fairbairn, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry and Frances O’Grady the General…
Many believe the Prime Minister may have worsened her chances of winning a meaningful vote next week.
Flooding destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes and officials in Mozambique say 15,000 people still need to be rescued from floodwaters. Many are still clinging to trees without food or clean water.
Two protests have taken place outside primary schools in Birmingham today as some Muslim parents attempted to stop diversity lessons which teach LGBT tolerance and acceptance.
When it comes to meeting its targets, the NHS in England has had one of the worst winters on record. And that’s prompting hospitals to look at different ways of dealing with patients.
We speak to former Chancellor and Father of the House of Commons Ken Clarke.
The scene is set for a crisis: MPs indicating they still won’t back the PM’s deal, Theresa May insisting she won’t ask for a long extension, and the EU currently saying nothing except that they might convene an emergency summit next week.
Gary Gibbon
The Government has revised plans for a vote next Thursday and is now contemplating holding it earlier in the week but “everything is fluid,” one source said. Plans are being made for an emergency sitting on Friday 29th March to respond to whatever the EU Council says on Thursday 28th about what is on offer…
Maryyum Mehmood is a research associate at the University of Oxford, looking at prejudice against Muslims and Jews, and Chris Allen is an expert on the far right in Britain and Europe.
Conservative MP Mark Francois is an ERG member who favours a no-deal Brexit.
Control over what happens next in the Brexit process appears to have shifted to Brussels.
Prisons Minister Rory Stewart discusses Brexit.
Today, New Zealand’s Prime Minister called for a global fight to “weed” out extremism.
