Politics

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...

A letter to Nigel Farage published in the Sunderland Echo the day before a Brexit Betrayal march got underway in the region is garnering viral traction on social media. The piece, entitled "Nigel Farage is not a friend to the people of Sunderland", vents that the city is "isolated because of him" as he spends more time on LBC or FOX than he does "doing his job advancing the UK's interests" in Europe. Robin Tudge writes: "He doesn’t come here...

Far-right Australian lawmaker Fraser Anning found himself, literally, with egg on his face yesterday after a protester smashed one on the side of his head at a Melbourne news conference. The Aussie senator had blamed the slaughter at two Christchurch mosques on immigration policies that "allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place", provoking outrage across the world. And yesterday he felt the public's angst first hand after a teenager delivered an egg to his head as...

Nigel Farage has confirmed he will not complete the Brexit Betrayal march as just 350 protesters turned up to trek from North East England to Westminster. The former UKIP leader had tweeted "We're marching from Sunderland to London... get your walking boots on!" last month as he rallied supporters to join him on a "Brexit Betrayal march". Yet today he admitted he will only walk "some of it" as campaigners, who have been sponsored by supporters of his Leave Means...