Politics

A Conservative MP yesterday made one of the best arguments for a People’s Vote yet, without even knowing he did it. Royston Smith, MP for Southampton Itchen who campaigned to leave the EU, took to social media to bemoan Theresa May's Brexit deal which seems to have united people on both sides of the Brexit divide in opposition of it. But as Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder pointed out, instead of venting his anger he seems to have presented one of the best arguments...

The Government has accepted the LPC's recommendations for future minimum wage rates. The rates below will apply from 1 April 2019. Responding to today’s Low Pay Commission report on wages, Young Women’s Trust chief executive Dr Carole Easton OBE said:“The Government should go further than adopting the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations and extend the ‘national living wage’ to all workers. Allowing employers to pay young people lower wages for no other reason than their age, as the Government is doing,...

Donald Trump dealt a blow to post-Brexit free trade ambitions after suggesting Theresa May's agreement could threaten a US-UK deal. The President had said the UK would be "better off" outside of the European Union during his presidential campaign, but his latest comments indicate he has seriously backtracked on the country's prospects. Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Mr Trump said: "Right now if you look at the deal, may not be able to trade with us. And that wouldn't be a...

There’s no denying that Theresa May’s letter appealing for the nation to unite around her Brexit deal has not had the response she had hoped for.  But perhaps the best reply we have seen so far has come from comic, presenter and veteran folk singer Mike Harding.  The Prime Minister’s letter on Saturday called for Brits to “come together as one people,” “getting behind this deal." Mike Harding’s near perfect response to the PM has been shared 33,516 times so far...

An Old Bailey jury could not agree on whether Peterborough MP Fiona Onasanya had lied about who was driving a speeding car.

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Theresa May returned from Brussels today with the blessing of 27 EU leaders after they approved the terms of the UK's exit at a summit on Sunday. The UK Parliament is expected to vote on the deal on 12 December, but its approval is far from guaranteed. More than 90 Tory MPs have suggested publicly they will not vote for it; so has the DUP; and the opposition parties are committed to voting against, which means she simply doesn’t have...

Theresa May's Brexit deal will leave the UK £100 billion worse off a year by 2030 than if it had remained in the EU, a study by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has found. The study revealed GDP would be 3.9 per cent lower over the next decade, which is the equivalent of losing the economic output of Wales or the City of London, the report authors noted. This would leave people on average £1,000 worse off each...

Jeremy Hunt had a blunt warning for the Conservative Government, if it doesn’t back May’s deal it could end up in the collapse of the party. He urged his colleagues to back the PM’s deal, which has been accepted by the other EU states. Hunt was speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, telling the interviewer that the deal “mitigates most of the negative impacts” of leaving the EU. However he would not be drawn into answering a question on whether...