Politics

We’ve just lived through the four warmest years on record, say scientists. And in Switzerland, temperature rises are twice the global mean. In fact, if nothing is done to tackle climate change, all the glaciers in the Alps could vanish by the end of the century. A move to make Switzerland carbon neutral by 2050…

President Trump has declared the United States is “locked and loaded” and ready to respond over the drone strikes on two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, as US officials blamed Iran for the attack, revealing satellite images they claimed contained evidence to support it. Iran has continued to deny any involvement The price of…

After getting her party’s support for a pledge to cancel Brexit altogether, the Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has declared she wouldn’t enter into a coalition with Labour or the Conservatives if there was a hung parliament after a general election, saying neither Boris Johnson nor Jeremy Corbyn was fit for the top job.

Boris Johnson abruptly pulled out of a joint press conference with the Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettel, amid noisy anti-Brexit protests.

 Tobias Ellwood is the Conservative MP for Bournemouth East.

Former Conservative MP Sam Gyimah joined the Liberal Democrats yesterday.

No Brexit at all: that’s the Liberal Democrats new policy – after delegates at the party conference here in Bournemouth voted to back Jo Swinson’s pledge to stop Britain leaving the European Union.

The funeral wake for Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe, which was due to be held today – has been postponed.

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iran for yesterday’s drone attacks on two key Saudi oilfields – calling it an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply. 

Zimbabwean journalist Violet Gonda who has been in exile from Zimbabwe for the last 20 years, after she escaped former President Mugabe’s rule.

At the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth the new party leader Jo Swinson wants one thing above all – to cancel Brexit altogether, without holding a second referendum.

The former Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted he feels desperately worried about Britain’s future – saying he thinks about the consequences of losing the referendum ‘every single day’.

For well over a year, police have been investigating allegations the Brexit campaign group Leave.EU broke electoral law during the 2016 referendum. But today Scotland Yard announced that there is “insufficient evidence” to justify further criminal inquiry.

Boris Johnson was confronted by a woman in Doncaster who told him “people had died due to austerity” and ” he had a cheek coming to her town” .

Splits at the top of the Labour Party burst into the open today as deputy leader Tom Watson openly defied Jeremy Corbyn by saying that there should be another referendum before a general election. The Labour leader wants to have a general election first, but Mr Watson said a new referendum was the only way…