Politics

Cabinet sources have told the BBC the Brexit deal vote planned for tomorrow has been pulled just hours after ministers confirmed it was "definitely on". Earlier this morning Michael Gove insisted Tuesday’s crunch Commons vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal will take place as the prime minister made a final push for MPs’ support. But last minute revelations seem to have scuppered the Prime Minister's plans. BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has said two cabinet sources have told her the vote...

The European Court of Justice has ruled the UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members. The ruling comes as MPs prepare to vote on Theresa May's deal for leaving the EU, which is expected to end in a crushing defeat for the beleaguered PM. It comes after a senior ECJ official - the advocate general - said last week he agreed the UK should be able to change its mind about leaving. Political commentators in...

Half of employers say Brexit will harm young people’s economic prospects in the short-term – twice the number that think it will be helpful, according to a YouGov survey for the charity Young Women’s Trust.  Many employers also expressed concern about the longer-term financial impact on young people of the UK leaving the EU. 50 per cent of those with responsibility for hiring staff say that the economic implications of Brexit will negatively affect 18 to 30 year-olds in the long-term. This compares to 33 per cent who think it will have a positive effect. One in four (27...

Caroline Lucas, arguing in favour of a People's Vote in a live Brexit debate broadcast on Channel 4, looks to have walked away with the plaudits after a fiercely contested battle with senior politicians. The Green MP lined up against Jacob Rees-Mogg, who campaigned for a hard Brexit, James Cleverly, who was backing Theresa May's deal, and Labour MP Barry Gardiner who called for a General Election in the debate, which replaced the Prime Minister's head-to-head with Jeremy Corbyn after the respective...

"These Tories are using public money to subvert democracy"

Disgraced former minister Priti Patel is in hot water again today – for gleefully suggesting that the threat of food shortages in a no deal Brexit could be used to encourage Ireland to drop their insistence on a backstop to prevent a hard border across Ireland. The former Tory Minister for International Development was reacting to a government report leaked to theTimes newspaper that outlined food shortages would be worse for Ireland than the UK in a no deal Brexit....

One of the world's leading experts in computational propaganda has concluded Vote Leave's illegal overspending was "very likely" to have been sufficient to swing the result of the referendum. Professor Philip Howard, director of the Oxford Internet Institute, has presented exhaustive analysis of the campaign’s digital strategy to the High Court which concludes it reached “tens of millions of people” in its last crucial days after its spending limit had been breached. It is more than plausible that the reach was...

Boris Johnson has found himself in hot water again. Only a few weeks after his water cannons were sold off at a huge loss. Now he has been told to apologise, in Parliament, after he repeatedly failed to register payments from his newspaper column and books.The totals involved with the nine late-registered payments was £52,722.80 In a report, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, said that Boris admitted he had failed to register payments in time on nine occasions in...

Conservative promises to build a Northern Powerhouse lay in tatters today after new research found spending in the north of England has fallen by £6.3 billion while the south-east and south-west of England have seen an increase of £3.2 billion since 2009-10. Analysis of official figures by thinktank IPPR North showed that the north of England continued to see bigger cuts in public spending than any other region. Spending per head in London has increased by twice as much as spending...