Gary Gibbon
EU summit – Barnier calls for calm
Theresa May has 30 minutes to outline her case to EU leaders tonight. She will not be coming with “new concrete proposals” as Donald Tusk requested.
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David Duguid MP on Brexit: ‘I couldn’t vote for withdrawal agreement that doesn’t advance interests of Scottish fishermen’
Theresa May’s beleaguered Brexit plan is facing yet more opposition from within her own ranks, this time from Scottish Tories, who’ve rejected any moves to delay Britain’s departure from the Common Fisheries Policy. Scottish Secretary David Mundell said the policy had been “bad for Scotland and bad for the UK”, and had influenced many people to vote…
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Gary Gibbon
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What’s it like living on universal credit?
The clamour from all sides to intervene in the national rollout of Universal Credit is rising. Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, faces calls to open the country’s chequebook ahead of his budget at the end of the month. Yesterday, Esther McVey, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said she accepts many people would be significantly worse off. Today the Times reported…
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George Osborne: Theresa May is ‘putting off the hard decisions’ over Brexit
Channel 4 News podcast: Former Chancellor says there will be no Brexit bonus – and admits mistakes on immigration
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Gary Gibbon
Theresa May summons Ministers for special Brexit meeting
A special Downing Street meeting on Brexit for Cabinet Ministers tomorrow. As talks reach a crucial phase, what does Theresa May want to tell them?
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Sturgeon says SNP would back a new referendum on the Brexit deal
The third largest party in the United Kingdom, the Scottish National Party, begins its annual conference in Glasgow today. Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, has said her MPs would back a new referendum on the Brexit deal, the so-called People’s Vote. Scotland Correspondent Ciaran Jenkins reports from Glasgow.
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Toynbee Hall renovation: the fight against Britain’s poverty
At the forefront of the battle against poverty for more than a century: Toynbee Hall in London’s East End has helped to pioneer social reform. And with a recent report finding more than one in ten people in the UK live in persistent poverty – its work has never been more crucial. The Victorian building…
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US Senate readies for final vote on Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination
The sexual assault allegations encircling President Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court Judge haven’t stopped his progress to the benches of America’s highest court. He denies the allegations. Last night a number of key Senators backed Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment for the lifetime job. He’s set to be confirmed in a Senate vote later this evening.…
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Living with disability and denied benefits, a former civil servant speaks out
A former senior civil servant has said that assessments for disability benefits need to be completely overhauled. Andrew McDonald, who now chairs the disability charity Scope, has experienced the process first hand – despite having Parkinson’s and terminal prostate cancer he was deemed not eligible for Personal Independence Payments (PIP). He said he was “shocked”…
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Interview with Yuval Noah Harari inside a South London school
He’s the Israeli historian best known as the author of “Sapiens”, which looked at the evolution of humankind – and now Yuval Harari has published “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” a book warning us how to harness the greatest global revolution to date: the rise of artificial intelligence. Cathy Newman went to meet him…
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FactCheck: Theresa May’s claims about Labour and the Conservatives
“The deficit is down by four-fifths” This is similar to a claim Theresa May made in 2017, when she said that since the Conservatives took office in 2010, “the deficit [had] fallen by three quarters as a share of GDP.” In her speech this week, the Prime Minister wasn’t quite so specific, but we’ll assume…
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Gary Gibbon
May jiggles her hips before plunging into her speech
The truth is that this moment was a necessary moment of challenge, but not a decisive one. Politics could all look very different in a few weeks’ time if Theresa May comes back with a deal from Brussels.
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Brexit clashes on day one of Tory Party conference
It’s day one of the Conservative Party conference and the Prime Minister is calling on her party to unite for Brexit but that hasn’t stopped Boris Johnson calling her Chequers plan ‘deranged’. We’re in Birmingham to speak to former Home Secretary Amber Rudd about her party’s Brexit worries.
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Gary Gibbon
Tory leadership hope to avoid conference brusing ahead of crucial EU talks
EU officials were braced for some EU bashing at this week’s Tory Conference. Jeremy Hunt certainly delivered that. The born again Leaver compared the EU to the old Soviet bloc countries that built walls to keep their people in. It’s hard to imagine a line of argument that could be more guaranteed to offend many EU…
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Kavanaugh confirmation moves ahead to full Senate vote
After a flurry of last-minute negotiations, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court following a late call from Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona for a one-week investigation into sexual assault allegations against President Trump’s nominee. It comes after emotional testimony from Dr Christine Blasey Ford, who says she was assaulted…
