Politics

A letter sent to Boris Johnson's dad during his time at Eton explains a lot.

Academics say long-term decline forecast for large areas of the UK Significant parts of Britain will experience a decline in economic growth over the next twenty years, a study says. The 2019 edition of the UK Competitiveness Index is compiled by researchers at Cardiff University and Nottingham Business School. As well as assessing the competitiveness of localities in England, Wales and Scotland today, forecasts have been compiled data to predict how they will fare in the years to come. By...

John Murphy, 31, waited for the Labour Party leader to walk from Finsbury Park mosque in north London to launch his political attack.

Sentiment and volumes are deteriorating sharply in the financial services sector, with various indicators at their lowest since the Financial Crisis of 2008, according to the latest CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey. The quarterly survey of 84 firms found that optimism about the overall business situation in the financial services sector plunged sharply, falling at the quickest pace since December 2008. Optimism has now been flat or falling for over three years. Business volumes fell for a second consecutive quarter, and...

Theresa May is facing unprecedented pressure to announce a resignation date – even by her standards. The beleaguered PM who not long ago fought an election with the slogan “strong and stable” has been significantly weakened now the government has admitted it may not be try to push her Brexit deal through the House of Commons next week after all. The government is looking unlikely to command a majority of MPs if such a vote was forced on MPs a...

MPs could vote on as many as seven alternatives if Theresa May's deal gets defeated for the third time in parliament next week. HuffPost UK has reported that the Prime Minister's deputy, David Lidington has floated the idea of holding so-called ‘indicative votes’ on a string of Brexit plans under the alternative vote (AV) system. They could include revoking Article 50, a second referendum or going with a no deal. Other potential options to be tabled are thought to be...

A remain-supporting MP has blamed Theresa May after he was attacked in the street the day after the PM blamed MPs for the failure of Brexit. The PM had “whipped up fear and division” in the country, said the MP attacked in the street on Thursday afternoon. Lloyd Russell-Moyle was attacked on the street by a man calling him “traitor,” damaging his glasses and trying to hit him as the Brighton Kemptown MP was with an ITV News news crew....

A petition calling for the government to revoke Article 50 has hit three million signatures and is set to surpass the previous record by the end of the day today. Millions of people have added their name to the petition in the last 48 hours after Theresa May delivered a disheartening speech to the nation earlier this week. Nine in ten Brits now say her handling of the Brexit negotiations a “national humiliation", with just seven per cent saying it...

Odds on a three year delay to Brexit have plummeted with bookmakers now pricing it at 9/4. April-June 2019 is still the most likely Brexit date at just 11/10, with the much trumpeted official leaving date of 29th March now a very unlikely 10/1. But according to Betway the second favourite is now for no Brexit before 2022. Alan Alger said: “Theresa May’s last gasp trip to Europe for a crisis summit has offered a chance of an extension, but...