Politics

EU leaders announced a flexible delay until October 31, Donald Tusk, president of the European Council imploring “our British friends” not to “waste this time.” The deadline is flexible, giving the UK just about enough time to change its Brexit strategy, hold an election, a referendum, or revoke Article 50. But if the UK is still in the EU on June 1, Britain will have to participate in the May European Parliament elections like all other EU countries – which...

Brexit uncertainty continued to subdue the London housing market in March, according to the RICS UK Residential Market Survey, March 2019.  Looking ahead, the lack of momentum is likely to persist for a while longer, although respondents still envisage modest improvements in activity twelve months ahead. In March, enquiries from new buyers saw the seventh negative reading in a row, with 16% of respondents seeing a fall rather than a rise in buyer demand in London. Significantly, demand fell across...

Britain's most notorious stink-bomber Bill Phillips, 80, was fined £10 in 1973 after a smelly joke bomb he threw at then PM Ted Heath missed – and hit the Queen.

As Brexit chaos continues onto another day it appears that Labour have pulled ahead in the polls. A new voting intention poll shows the Conservatives have dropped 9 points since March to 32 per cent of the vote, while Labour has gained 4 points to 35 per cent.  Kantar’s research finds that remaining in the EU/ Revoking Article 50 is the most popular outcome for the public, with one in three saying this is their most favourable scenario. Leaving the...

Former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq burst into tears as she spoke at an event calling for a second Brexit referendum yesterday. The prominent campaigner admitted she ‘couldn’t believe’ she was crying during a passionate speech at the People’s Vote Rally in Church House, Westminster. Huq said Brexit will be an "unforgivable betrayal" as she campaigned alongside politicians including Baroness Betty Boothroyd. A video of the ex-Commons speaker has gone viral on social media as she made an emotional plea...

Stephen Fry has performed another fact-based assessment of what Britain really wants in his latest Brexit video. Calling out mainstream politicians for peddling inaccurate polling data he takes aim at Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Ian Duncan Smith in an honest appraisal of the current political landscape. The majority of polls suggest that Britain has changed its mind on Brexit since the referendum, yet that hasn’t stopped Brexiteers using polling data to support their cause. Fry calls Ian Duncan Smith...

Mental health charity Mind has issued wellbeing advice to all 650 MPs sitting in Westminster and their staff, following a series of parliamentarians revealing the effect Brexit is having on their mental health. Those who have spoken out include Tim Loughton, MP for East Worthing & Shoreham, who said: “I have never seen more frazzled MPs, physically and mentally, and I do seriously fear for the mental health of some of my colleagues.” Another anonymous MP described Westminster as “a...

As the UK struggles to decide anything regarding Brexit a stark warning had been handed to the British Isles. In the case of a no-deal Brexit the UK would slump into a two-year recession, claims the IMF (the International Monetary Fund). A no-deal outcome that led to severe border disruptions and a quick erection of tariffs would cause UK GDP to fall by 1.4 per cent and 0.8 per cent in the first and second years The total negative effect...

Revoking Article 50 could have become the government’s default Brexit position, ITV political editor Robert Peston has revealed. Following Sunday’s sofa chat in which the Prime Minister revealed the choice over Brexit is a binary one between some version of her negotiated deal and not leaving at all, she could have laid the groundwork for cancelling Brexit to become the “de facto Brexit default”. Peston said: “The point is that she has no power to prevent a no-deal Brexit on...