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Labour and its cross-party alliance has lost its bid to block a no-deal Brexit by barring the next PM from suspending parliament. The numbrs of yes votes was 298 and the number of no votes was 309, a majority of 11. The motion had the backing of former Conservative minister Oliver Letwin and the leaders of the Scottish National party, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens. Labour MP Gareth Snell said he "made a mistake" voting against withdrawal...

Mahdi Mohamud, 25, is alleged to have knifed the victims at Victoria station in Manchester around 9pm on New Year's Eve.

A team from Australia were able to turn the waste into a replacement for industrial flooring - which opens the door for new uses for old glass.

As Boris Johnson makes his leadership race speech a leaked cabinet note indicates that the UK is not ready for a no-deal Brexit. Johnson told the crowd that the UK will leave on October 31st if there is no other option. However, the note says that it will take “six to eight months” to build up medical supplies, vital to the nation. The urgent warning says the pharmaceutical industry needs this period of help from the government “to ensure adequate arrangements are...

A video of a Brexit Party MEP trying to vote with his finger rather than ID card has gone viral. Lance Forman, MEP for London, posted a video of him attempting to press the 'no' button on a voting machine yesterday. The Brexiteer said in the tweet: "Just practicing voting 'No'. From what I am finding it seems that legislation proposed by the unelected commission always passes. Have only been here a day, but it's very clear, there is no...

Humans are ingesting the equivalent of one credit card per week from water, food and the air they breathe. A new WWF study called 'Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People' reports that people consume 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic each week, on average, which is the equivalent of eating a teaspoon of plastic — or a credit card — every week. Carried out by Australia's University of Newcastle the research found that water, both bottled and tap, was the...

The average employee reckons they waste almost 15 weeks a year - carrying out “pointless” tasks at work, according to research. The study of 2,000 workers found typically 142 minutes a day - more than two hours - are spent doing admin, paperwork and attending meetings when they could be getting on with more important jobs. That equates to a staggering 76 working days across a 48 week year, assuming workers take four weeks annual leave. It also emerged at...

The Labour Party has tabled a motion that would prevent a future Tory Prime Minister from forcing through a 'no deal' Brexit on 31 October. Up for debate in parliament tomorrow the cross-party motion would hand control of the parliamentary agenda to MPs on Tuesday 25th June. If it passes MPs will have the chance to introduce measures, including legislation, that could help avoid a no deal Brexit. The intervention has come after several contenders for the Tory leadership have...

Dominic Grieve called Boris Johnson a “shallow populist” who would bring doom to the Conservative Party in a scathing interview published today. The Tory MP for Beaconsfield told The New European that Johnson would be “manifestly unsuitable for high office” if he won the leadership race – which he is widely tipped to do. He said he abhors the kind of “pub patriotism” that Johnson and some of his fellow Brextremists, such as Nigel Farage, have come to embody, saying...