Ulrike Ester Franke, from the European Council on Foreign Affairs, discusses Theresa May’s speech.
Not everyone in Germany was following today’s Brexit speech, and they can be excused for not doing so, with their own distraction in the form of Sunday’s election. However policymakers, businessmen and anyone involved with Britain were listening. While many may have been reassured by Theresa May’s emollient words about paying divorce bills and a smooth transition forging a special partnership…
Michael Crick discusses the reaction at Westminster to Theresa May’s EU speech in Florence.
Theresa Villiers, Conservative MP and former Northern Ireland Secretary, who campaigned for Leave, and Labour MP Ben Bradshaw, who campaigned for Remain, discuss Theresa May’s speech in Florence.
Can it be a new partnership? In her speech in Italy, Theresa May set out how the government wants to leave the EU. She offered new ways to develop the UK’s relationship with Europe, among them a two-year transition period, a “creative” approach to trade, and payments into the EU budget until 2021. Will it be…
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May has spelt out that Britain is formally requesting a status quo transition period of around two years and is willing to pay for that. It will mean just about nothing will change in terms of relations with the EU until five years after the referendum. That’s quite a pill for some voters to…
The Prime Minister briefed her cabinet today on how she hopes to break the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations.
In Barcelona thousands of protesters gathered outside a courthouse to demand the release of a dozen regional officials detained for their part in organising a Catalonian independence referendum. Now the constitutional court is planning to fine 22 electoral officials up to 12,000 euros a day for their defiance.
Gary Gibbon
There’s more than a little concern in No. 10 that Boris Johnson’s intervention in The Telegraph last week has rather raised expectations for Theresa May’s speech.
The statistics watchdog criticises Boris Johnson for a “clear misuse” of official figures – after he repeated the claim that £350m a week could go to the NHS after Brexit. Mr Johnson’s aides say the complaint was only about the headline on his article – rather than his own words. The Foreign Secretary was a…
We speak to the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson Ed Davey who is at his party’s annual conference which has just got underway in Bournemouth.
We speak to David Cameron’s former director of communications Sir Craig Oliver about whether Boris Johnson’s article is an attempt to rally the troops for Mrs May ahead of her big Brexit speech next week, or a tilt at the leadership.
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has insisted he is “all behind Theresa for a glorious Brexit” – after his article about Britain’s future outside the EU that’s been widely seen as a Tory leadership challenge.
Armed police have raided a house in Sunbury-on-Thames – while detectives are scouring CCTV to “chase down” suspects – after a teenager was arrested earlier today in connection with the Parsons Green tube bombing.
Gary Gibbon
Boris Johnson’s Telegraph article is clearly the speech he had hoped to give about now but was told by a No 10 emissary he should not. Instead he has burst on to the scene in print, albeit unhelpfully behind a paywall and on a day when the threat level has been raised and eyes are…
