Chairman of the 1922 backbench committee Sir Graham Brady says the threshold of 48 letters of no confidence in Theresa May's leadership of the Conservative Party has been reached triggering a ballot which will take place tonight between 6pm and 8pm. If theresa May loses the vote, a leadership contest ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel watched bemused as the beleagured British Prime Minister arrived for crunch talks to save her Brexit deal - and failed to exit her own car. Making a clean exit from her locked car proved tricky for Theresa May who appeared unable to negotiate her child lock. ...
"These Tories are using public money to subvert democracy"
“If we look at the alternative to that deal with the European Union, we see that it will either be more uncertainty and more division, or it could risk no Brexit at all.”
The Conservatives have been dubbed a "zombie party" after they were defeated in the House of Commons for the third day in a row. Not a single Tory voted to support the government in an appeal to change the horse racing betting levy order in a joint regulatory reform committee. ...
UN Rapporteur Philip Aston’s damning report into poverty in the UK was no surprise to those who had been keeping up with events. Anyone who hadn’t developed serious social myopia over the years last eight years of grinding austerity couldn’t fail to see the results of a deliberate government policy ...
"The British public just want us to get on with it" the Prime Minister told a hastily assembled press conference, this evening, looking exhausted and shaken. Yes, a Sky Data poll today revealed that of the three options that Theresa May yesterday said are open to the country, staying in ...
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Three-in-four Brits, including both Remainers (by five-to-one) and Leavers (by three-to-one), think Brexit is distracting too much attention from "more pressing" issues like automation and the future of the NHS & social care, according to a new report. Ideas for a 21st Century Enlightenment, by the Royal Society for the encouragement of ...