Two government sources suggest the Meaningful Vote “take 3” might happen on Thursday of next week. Of course, like everything else right now, that could change. But if it did pan out that way it would mean that we were voting on the eve of the 11pm 29th March departure time that is still in UK law.…
Theresa May’s attempt to get parliament to agree to her Brexit deal suffered another major setback today, after the Commons Speaker said he might stop the government from calling another meaningful vote.
In Mozambique, President Filipe Nyusi says more than 1,000 people may have been killed by Cyclone Idai, which devastated the port city of Beira last week.
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He told the Commons that precedent required him to set a high bar for allowing the government to bring back the Brexit divorce which Theresa May is hoping will pass at the third attempt.
Her cabinet has backed a ban on semi-automatic weapons, and the Prime Minister has urged owners to hand such guns in to the police.
The country’s head of counter-terrorism earlier said the incident “appears to be a terrorist attack”.
Two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old died, while another 16-year-old girl remains in hospital.
Britain’s most acclaimed portrait photographer is a craftsman who can force a rare laugh out of the Queen, and his photos defined London’s swinging sixties.
According to a report being released tomorrow, the number of children with a parent in prison has been hugely under-estimated.
The gunman alleged to have live-streamed the attacks has been identified as Brenton Tarrant, who describes himself online as an ordinary, white, working-class man, with a regular childhood.
We spoke to former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, and began by asking for her reaction to what had happened.
It is New Zealand’s deadliest terror attack: 49 people have died in mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has described this as one of the country’s “darkest days”, while around the world political and religious leaders have expressed their condemnation of the attack. One man has been charged with murder,…
We spoke to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, and began by asking what assurances he can give to communities in London concerned about the mosque attacks.
In Syria, Kurdish-led forces continue their push to remove the last few hundred Islamic State militants from the east of the country.
In the first of four court cases, a High Court judge described a culture of “secrecy and excessive confidentiality” at the Post Office.
It’s part of a renewed effort to get the DUP to back Theresa May’s Brexit deal.
Listen and subscribe to Politics: Where Next? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other good apps. On this week’s episode: In a moment to talk about where Brexit is heading and where it might be dragging our political parties – we welcome back Labour MP Jess Phillips and the Conservative MP and former minister Nick Boles to the…
She promised Conservative MPs that she would step down before the 2022 General Election. Now Theresa May’s former policy adviser George Freeman has called for her to resign straight away in order to “unite the country”. But if she does go, who will take over? Various Conservative leadership contenders have been jockeying for position. Our…
Our reporter Anja Popp is in Christchurch.
It is a harrowing recording: a 999 call made by a 77 year old woman after a burglary in North London. It was the last time Maureen Whale spoke.
The Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is in Washington DC, where he has been meeting leaders, including President Trump.
It’s nearly half a century since one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland’s Troubles.
Jon Snow went to Egham to find out what voters think of the government’s handling of Brexit.
371 Boeing airliners are sitting idle on the tarmac tonight, after the aviation giant grounded its 737 MAX model. It follows the decision by the US Federal Aviation Administration to temporarily ban the jet from US airspace – joining more than 50 countries which had already done the same. Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines crash claimed 157 lives, including nine…
