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Vice-President of the European Parliament and Irish MEP, Mairead McGuinness, discusses Brexit.
The government chief whip faces calls to resign over allegations he used underhand tactics to win crucial Brexit votes – and then tried to cover it up. On Tuesday’s knife edge Brexit vote in the Commons, the Conservative Party Chairman Brandon Lewis was paired with the Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson who’s away after having…
Theresa May has begun a two day visit to Northern Ireland, with her first visit to the Irish border since the Brexit vote. The Prime Minister went to Belleek, in County Fermanagh, to meet local businesses and political leaders concerned about what will happen with issues like trade and free movement after Britain leaves the…
Gary Gibbon
“We are on a cliff edge, leaning right forward, losing our centre of gravity and about to fall into the abyss of 20 years in the wilderness. I can’t see anyway round it. We are inviting Jeremy Corbyn to form a government.” One former minister, this morning, on the state of the Conservative Party. The…
The President’s visit started amid controversy after his Sun newspaper interview blasting Theresa May, the London mayor Sadiq Khan – and claiming immigration meant Europe was “losing its culture.” Later came the apology, of sorts: Mr Trump stood side by side with the Prime Minister lavishing praise on her, saying “she’s a terrific woman, she’s doing a…
Gary Gibbon
In searing heat on the lawns of Chequers, Donald Trump laid it on with a trowel to Theresa May. We are becoming used to the sequence of offence given greatly, accusations that he’s been misunderstood and then proclamations that he reveres the individual in question. We got an Olympic class display of those skills today…
Gary Gibbon
How to handle Donald Trump? What tactics work? How do you get the best out of him? Is there any relationship worth pursuing given how quickly he spins round and contradicts himself? If you’re part of the traditional liberal West, will he always undermine you? The grin/grimace and bear it approach has been tested to…
Almost a week after Theresa May’s showdown at Chequers that led to David Davis, Boris Johnson and various others you probably haven’t heard of quitting, the Government’s Brexit White Paper has been revealed, detailing Britain’s negotiating position for life after we leave the EU. Theresa May declared it “absolutely delivers on the Brexit we…
Labour have dismissed the government’s new plan for the NHS, but it’s actually more generous than the one Labour put forward at the last Election.
Gary Gibbon
Nearly one hour into Dominic Raab’s statement on the government’s Brexit negotiating strategy a Tory MP got up and did something unusual. Vicky Ford, former MEP, was the first Tory to say anything supportive of the policy.
Jacob Rees-Mogg chairs the European Research Group of Eurosceptic Conservative MPs.
Britain’s data protection watchdog intends to fine Facebook £500,000 for failing to safeguard users’ information – the maximum amount it can levy.
Ken Clarke served as a minister when Lord Carrington was foreign secretary in a government led by Margaret Thatcher. How did the seasoned aristocrat get on with her?
He served in Churchill’s government and held many major offices of state, famously resigning as foreign secretary over the Falklands invasion. Former prime ministers have led the tributes to Lord Carrington, who’s died at the age of 99. Sir John Major said he felt “immensely privileged” to have known him, while David Cameron described his…
Theresa May has been hit by more resignations over her Brexit plan, just hours after appealing for Tory unity at the first meeting of her new-look cabinet. Ben Bradley and Maria Caulfield stepped down as vice chairs of the Conservative Party, one calling the plan as “the worst of all worlds”. The PM didn’t get…
