What was significant about the Brady amendment passed two weeks ago is that it managed to unite the Conservative party behind a Brexit proposition. Only eight Tories voted against. But managing to come up with a Brexit stance acceptable to remainers...
10.16am EST10:16 Corbyn has finished. Ken Clarke, the Tory pro-European and former chancellor, goes next. He always gets called in this slot as father of the House (the longest serving MPs). Facebook Twitter 10.14am EST10:14 Corbyn says Labou...
We’re making initial decisions on issues such as medicine, medical devices and clinical consumables stockpiling, emergency transportation, support for supply chains, diversion of local produce and a host of other issues. All of this activity has bec...
Planning for a no-deal Brexit is expected to be ramped up this week with up to £2bn to be allocated to government departments after the cabinet signs off on the contingency plans at its weekly meeting on Tuesday. Theresa May wants the increasingly s...
Theresa May is running away from the scrutiny of a head to head debate with Jeremy Corbyn, as she did in the 2017 general election campaign. When Number Ten told the media she wanted a head to head debate on her botched Brexit deal, Jeremy Corbyn im...
Boris Johnson called on Theresa May to “junk the backstop” in a barnstorming speech at the Democratic Unionist party conference. The former foreign secretaryJohnson told the party’s conference in Belfast on Saturday that the backstop, a measure inte...
Theresa May has given way to Madrid’s demands over the future of Gibraltar after the Spanish prime minister threatened to “veto” the Brexit deal due to be signed off by EU leaders on Sunday. On the eve of Sunday’s special Brexit summit, the British...
Channelling the spirit of Monty Python, Father Ted and Oscar Wilde, the voice trolls the Brexit process with a tone that is whimsical, sometimes surreal and always pointed. “I dislike Brexit but, speaking as a border, I do admire its ability to comp...
Theresa May’s attempts to get her Brexit deal through cabinet this week are facing another hurdle after the leading Tory Brexiter Andrea Leadsom said she was “sticking in government” to make sure the UK did not end up trapped in a customs arrangemen...
Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal would be rejected in the House of Commons, the Democratic Unionist party’s Brexit spokesman has said, after his party reacted angrily to a letter from the prime minister detailing her plans. Sammy Wilson said sugge...
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, says a deal with Britain might not come before November after talks hit an impasse over the weekend. Speaking on the eve of an EU leaders’ summit in Brussels, Barnier said several issues...
EU leaders have scrapped plans to discuss and publish a draft declaration this week on the bloc’s future trade deal with the UK after the derailment of the talks over the Irish border, in a blow to Theresa May. An outline of an agreement was due to...
Theresa May’s top military adviser has asked for Germany’s head of state to be invited to attend this year’s Remembrance Day commemorations at the Cenotaph in London, a memo photographed in Downing Street reveals. The German president, Frank-Walter...
The author of a new plan for Brexit backed by senior pro-leave Conservatives has urged the government to abandon the Chequers proposal, saying it would leave a post-departure UK unable to benefit economically from its new place in the world. Shanke...
On 27 April this year, Michal Iwanowski left his house in Cardiff to walk to his home village of Mokrzeszów in Poland. Carrying British and Polish passports and wearing a T-shirt bearing the word “Polska”, he began his 1,200-mile journey east, stick...