Politics

The government is preparing for "riots on the streets" in a No Deal Brexit , the former head of the UK civil service has declared. Lord Kerslake also said the UK is not ready to leave the European Union and pleaded for Article 50 to be delayed. He told the BBC: "It's unnecessary. "The government could stop this now. "I think they could say we think, as many of the cabinet have already said privately, that no deal Brexit is simply not a realistic...

The Bank of England seems to be losing faith in Britain’s economic strength and has slashed its outlook for the country yesterday as it opted to leave interest rates on hold. The bank expects growth this year to be just 1.2% - the slowest since 2009 when the economy was in recession. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said: "The fog of Brexit is causing short term volatility in the economic data, and more fundamentally, it is creating a series...

The Bank of England has downgraded its growth forecast for 2019 growth to 1.2%, which would be the smallest rise since 2009. Sterling tumbled on the news and was trading 0.6% down versus the US dollar at $1.285. Against the euro, the pound was down 0.3% at €1.134. The PM flew to Brussels today to push for concessions from EU leaders on the divorce deal agreed with them last year, which has been rejected by Parliament. Both Mr Tusk and...

The broadcaster reported claims from “authoritative" sources that President Petro Poroshenko’s aides had paid the US president’s then personal lawyer Michael Cohen to arrange the meeting.

Lies... there have been loads of them. And not all on the side of a bus. Banning bendy bananas... renaming Bombay Mix to make the snack politically correct... rolling out a one-size-fits-all “euro condom” - a certain section of the British press have shamelessly misrepresented the EU to invent the kind of myths that fueled the Brexit campaign. We reported this giant list of Euromyths last year. And now, with just 50 days left to avoid Britain leaving the EU in...

The Group - made up entirely of predominantly Tory backbenchers including Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nicky Morgan has been meeting in the Cabinet Office aided by Whitehall mandarins

Donald Tusk has said there is a "special place in hell" for "those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely". The European Council President was speaking after talks Irish premier Leo Varadkar in Brussels in which he emphasised that there were 50 days to go until the UK's exit from the European Union with no agreement yet reached. https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1093123941877641217 He said he believed "a common solution" over the Irish backstop is possible,...

Labour officially calls for Brexit to be delayed. Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary – standing in for Jeremy Corbyn– said: “The sensible, cautious thing to do at this late stage is to seek a temporary extension of Article 50 so we time to see if the negotiations succeed or, if they do not, to pursue a different plan.” The reason they have made the move is because the PM has ran out of time to get her deal through the Commons before...

The Secretary General of NATO has just announced that the next meeting of NATO heads of state is to be in London in December. It will be NATO’s 70th anniversary year and there may well be a repeat of the tensions of the last NATO meeting where Donald Trump berated other bemused heads of state. He has repeatedly criticised NATO and demanded more funding from other NATO states. Even in his State of the Union address on Tuesday he insisted...