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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Gary Gibbon
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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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Gary Gibbon
Theresa May doggedly works through the Brexit puzzle
On flights, aides say, she occasionally relaxes with Sudoku puzzles. While some of her colleagues in the Tory Party come with broad approaches, ideologies in some cases, Theresa May doggedly works through the puzzle.
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Gary Gibbon
No deal Brexit papers published amid buzz over ‘deal lite’
The real buzz amongst ministers and officials in the last couple of weeks has been talk of how a “no deal” might be avoided with a “deal lite”.
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Arron Banks denies allegation of bribery over mining interest
In part two of our investigation into Arron Banks’ mining interests in Southern Africa, Channel 4 News details the transfer of thousands of pounds to a Lesotho cabinet minister and the subsequent issuing of a mining licence.
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What is Brexit? Government sets out most detailed plan
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…
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Jacob Rees-Mogg MP: Chequers deal ‘an unfortunate u-turn’
Jacob Rees-Mogg chairs the European Research Group of Eurosceptic Conservative MPs.
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Trump urges Nato members to double defence spending
The coffee had barely been poured at breakfast when Donald Trump launched his first blistering attack on his allies. They were expecting him to lambaste them for how little he feels they are contributing to NATO’s military might compared to the United States. More of a surprise was when he said Germany was “totally controlled…
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Ivo Daalder: Trump must confront Putin over Skripal “chemical weapon attack”
Former US Ambassador to Nato, Ivo Daalder, discusses President Trump’s approach to the summit. Are Donald Trump’s calls on NATO to spend 4 per cent of GDP on defence realistic?
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Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl on Trump and migration
Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl discusses President Trump and her country’s attitude to migration.
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Mairead McGuinness MEP on Chequers cabinet agreement: ‘First time UK will come to table with something substantive to negotiate on’
Vice President of the European Parliament, Mairead McGuinness, and German conservative MEP, Hans-Olaf Henkel, discuss Brexit and Theresa May’s Chequers summit.
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Gary Gibbon
Will the Brexiteers walk after crunch talks at Chequers?
Aston actually went out of business a while ago but the surviving local cab firm is run by a passionate pro-Remain boss who said she would happily drive any pro-Brexit minister out of government.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg MP: Soft Brexit deal would “cheat on the British people”
Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg discusses the government’s EU negotiations.
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Gary Gibbon
Attitudes to immigration haven’t softened since EU referendum, poll suggests
Nigel Farage says “the Tory posh boys” sang his song on immigration in the latter stages of the referendum campaign and are now running away from the issue and talking of a “liberal Brexit”.
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Ship with 900 migrants on board docks in Sicily
Italy’s controversial new interior minister has hit back at criticism of his migrants policy by the French government after he refused to allow 629 people on a charity ship to come ashore in Sicily. Matteo Salvini accused France of turning back 10,000 migrants on its border with Italy. The migrant ship Aquarius is now headed…
