Politics

Solicitor Onasanya, who left prison on February 26 after serving less than four weeks for perverting the course of justice, made the plea in a bizarre video posted on her Twitter page

The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow has ruled that the Prime Minister is not allowed to ask MPs to vote on her Brexit deal a third time unless it has “substantially” changed. It had been reported that Theresa May would make a last ditch attempt to get her deal through this week, but that's unlikely to be the case now. Bercow said: “If the government wishes to bring forward a new proposition that is neither the same...

French politician Nathalie Loiseau reckons her cat is similar to the UK’s Brexit position. Speaking to French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, the government minister said: "He wakes me up every morning miaowing to death because he wants to go out. "And then when I open the door he stays in the middle, undecided, and then gives me evil looks when I put him out." Loiseau is one of the leading French Brexit politicians and has not been impressed, at all,...

The Brexit Betrayal march got stuck in a bit of bother yesterday after attempting to cross the River Tees on the Transporter Bridge before realising it is closed on a Sunday. Protesters were forced to walk an extra five miles to get over the river at Newport Bridge, according to reports. It was hoped that the iconic Tees Transporter Bridge would make for a picture-perfect background for the marchers, but it ended up providing a symbolic Brexit metaphor instead. With...

Another day another humiliation for Theresa May, this time from the Dutch PM. The Dutch PM, Mark Rutte, compared the struggling British PM to the knight from comedy classic film, Monty Phyton and the Holy Grail. The hapless knight is attacked and bits of him are sliced off, but continues to think he is winning the fight. In the cult classic film, the character has all four of his limbs cut off but wants to keep on fighting telling his...

Whatever happens next, Brexit has inflicted unprecedented damage on the UK’s financial services industry, the founder and CEO of one of the world's largest independent financial advisory organisations has warned. The finance sector, which makes up about 6.5 per cent of Britain’s GDP, is heavily reliant on Britain's connections with the EU's single market and could face significant disruption in the event of a no deal Brexit. But regardless of how the negotiations pan out, Nigel Green of deVere Group says...

The BBC has been accused of allowing its Comic Relief TV appeal to become ‘an advert for Jeremy Corbyn’ because it painted a bleak picture of deprivation in the UK. Tory MPs lambasted BBC bosses for peddling ‘socialist nonsense’ and making ‘absurd’ claims about the scale of poverty in Britain in this year's six-hour broadcast. They say celebrities painted a bleak picture of hunger, deprivation and homelessness in the UK, which MPs say amounted to a political attack on Theresa May’s...

Theresa May has issued a last-ditch plea to MPs, warning that a failure to vote through her deal when it comes before the Commons this week would mean "we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever". In an article for the Sunday Telegraph, she said a third rejection of her blueprint would mean would leave the UK in a “Hotel California Brexit” where “you can check out, but you can never leave”. The Government will ask for...

Chris Grayling could face a bill of up to £28 million from two ferry companies hired to help cope with a no-deal Brexit if the UK does not leave the EU at the end of March. The FT has reported that if parliament decides to postpone the UK's departure from the European Union this week then the government will need to rewrite contracts with DFDS and Brittany Ferries to provide more capacity in a no-deal Brexit. Whitehall aides say the two...