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...
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...
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...
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...
Downing Street is poised to announce that it will lift the cap on visas for skilled migrants that has led to more than a thousand doctors being denied entry to the UK, after the home secretary, Sajid Javid, said he was “taking a fresh look” at the p...
Britain has been accused of “caving in” to pressure from the governments of Commonwealth states which criminalise homosexuality after doubts emerged over a planned UK effort to promote gay rights at the bloc’s upcoming summit in London. A guide on...
Britain has been accused of “caving in” to pressure from the governments of Commonwealth states which criminalise homosexuality after doubts emerged over a planned UK effort to promote gay rights at the bloc’s upcoming summit in London. A guide on...