Scotland will be left worse off if the UK government’s draft Brexit agreement is passed by Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said. She said the SNP’s 35 Westminster MPs would vote against Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal when it comes before The Commons on December 11. The withdrawal agreement and political declaration that accompanies […]
Continue Reading
Prime Minister Theresa May has dismissed President Donald Trump’s claim that her Brexit deal will make a trade agreement with the UK more unlikely. She told an audience in Wales that the country would be able to agree new deals after leaving the EU – and that trade talks were progressing with American officials. But […]
Continue Reading
Firms looking to stockpile extra food supplies to insure against a hard Brexit are finding that warehouses are fully booked, MPs have been told. Ian Wright, head of the Food and Drink Federation, said storage facilities for chilled and frozen food are at capacity and space for other goods is limited in certain areas. He […]
Continue Reading
The number of homeless people in Britain has shot up over the past year to 320,000, a new study from the housing charity Shelter claims. This represents a rise of 13,000 – or four per cent – on the previous year, with an estimated 36 people becoming homeless daily across the country. Shelter says its […]
Continue Reading
EU leaders warned Theresa May’s government that there will be no renegotiation of the Brexit deal they approved at a special summit today. This means that if the UK Parliament votes the deal down – as it is forecast to do – Mrs May’s options will not include attempting to secure further EU concessions. The […]
Continue Reading
Labour has not ruled out a second Brexit referendum – but it would almost certainly end in the same result, the party’s shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said. She warned those pushing for a ‘People’s Vote’ on UK membership of the EU to ‘be careful what you wish for’ as Leave would probably win. Ms […]
Continue Reading
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said today that the party’s appointment of Tommy Robinson as an adviser drags the party in a ‘shameful direction.’ Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has been brought in by current leader Gerard Batten to advise the party on prison reform and child grooming gangs. He is a convicted criminal and […]
Continue Reading
Prime Minister Theresa May clinched a draft agreement with Brussels on the UK’s departure from the EU and claimed a full deal is ‘within our grasp.’ She said the political declaration setting out a framework for the future relationship between the UK and EU was ‘right for the whole of the UK.’ But she walked […]
Continue Reading
The new Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd walked into a row over poverty with a United Nations expert within days of taking up her post. She had criticised a report by UN expert Philip Alston that blamed Government austerity policies for inflicting “misery” on thousands of UK citizens. Mr Alston, the UN special rapporteur […]
Continue Reading
Rebel Tory MPs seeking to oust Theresa May were still struggling to get enough letters to force a confidence vote on her leadership today. The Prime Minister would face a mandatory vote if 48 of her MPs wrote letters of no confidence to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the back bench 1922 committee. But despite […]
Continue Reading