Vital education, health and housing reforms in Northern Ireland are being thwarted by the power vacuum at Stormont, the province’s top civil servant has said. The devolved power sharing Government of Northern Ireland collapsed in January last year after a row between the two main parties. With the Westminster government unwilling to reimpose direct rule, […]
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Parliament will have to decide what to do next if MPs do not approve Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the EU, one of her ministers said today. International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox said its only chance of getting through a Commons vote was if the Irish border backstop issue was resolved first. […]
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British travellers will have to pay a fee to visit EU countries after Brexit, it was confirmed today. The £6.30 (€7) levy will be payable every three years under the new European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) from 2021. But there will be no visa requirements for British citizens travelling to EU countries for […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May arrives in Brussels today seeking new guarantees over her Brexit withdrawal deal after surviving a Tory confidence vote in her leadership. Last night’s vote was triggered by Mrs May’s decision to cancel Tuesday’s vote in Parliament on the agreement she had struck with the EU. MPs voted 200-117 in favour of […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May said today that she will contest an imminent vote of no confidence in her leadership ‘with everything I have got.’ She issued a defiant message to Tory rebels outside 10 Downing Street after it was confirmed that the 48 letters necessary to trigger a vote had been received. This is the […]
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The UK can unilaterally cancel Brexit without any changes to the terms of its membership, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed yesterday. They confirmed the opinion of ECJ advocate general Manuel Campos Sanchez-Bordona that the UK could do so without approval from the EU’s 27 member states. Their ruling is a victory for a […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May was accused of presiding over ‘a shambles’ after calling off tomorrow’s crunch vote on her Brexit withdrawal deal. She will now go back to the EU to seek changes that will make it more palatable to MPs on all sides who were set to vote it down by a huge margin […]
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There are viable alternatives if Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal deal is rejected by Parliament on Tuesday, one of her ministers has said. Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that ‘anything could happen’ if MPs vote the plan down as expected. But she broke ranks with her […]
Continue ReadingThe EU’s austerity policies have hurt ordinary people and could encourage the rise of the far right, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told an audience of Euro-socialists. Corbyn also told the Congress of European Socialists in Lisbon that Labour believed in respecting the result of the UK’s 2016 EU referendum. He said it was the left’s […]
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The future re-nationalisation of Britain’s railways cannot be ruled out, says the man leading a review into the future of the industry. Former British Airways chief executive Keith Williams says that ‘all options are on the table’ as part of his year-long review. Williams, who was also deputy chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, will […]
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