Theresa May was asked “What did you do to help the release of Nelson Mandela?” ahead of her visit to Robben Island yesterday. The prime minister came under scrutiny over her stance on apartheid as she prepared to visit a prison that held captive political campaigners during a period of ...
If it’s her awkward dance moves in a Cape Town school that cause embarrassment as Theresa May kicks off her tour of Africa, it’s a welcome distraction from a more awkward dance to the tune of her party – bitterly divided on the consequences of a No Deal Brexit. Shuffling ...
This is because families still have the final say and presuming consent means they are much less likely to think this is what their loved ones would have wanted.
The Conservatives have no way out of their own Brexit trap, Robert Shrimsley wrote in the Financial Times this week. Either they appease powerful party members crying betrayal over her attempts to shift negotiations into soft Brexit mode or she goes hard in spite of the well documented repercussions. It's ...
Naa’Imur Rahman, 20, wanted to detonate a bomb at the Downing Street security gates before storming the front door of No. 10 armed with a knife or a gun
Labour have opened up a five point gap over the Conservatives in the polls. According to the latest Westminster voting intention 41 per cent of Brits would vote for Jeremy Corbyn's party if there was an election tomorrow. Just 36 per cent said they would vote for the Conservatives and ...
Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and his predecessor Tim Farron have been criticised for missing key votes on Brexit last night, despite pedalling an anti-Brexit agenda. According to party sources Cable was "off the parliamentary estate at an important meeting” and his absence was “approved by LibDem whips” - because the party ...
Theresa May is officially stuck between a rock and a hard place. With one of the most divisive issues in a generation on the table she has somehow managed to make compromises on both sides and yet end up pleasing no one. Treasury PPS Scott Mann and Witney MP Robert Courts ...
Theresa May has today revealed what Donald Trump's elusive nugget of advice was over the EU. The US president told reporters at a press conference on Friday that he had told May how to deal with Union. He said his suggestion was found to be "too brutal" by the Prime ...