Prime Minister Theresa May appears to have lost the support of the party that has kept her Government in power since last year’s general election. The ten MPs of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) abstained on Monday in a crunch vote over the Budget in what was described as a ‘warning shot’ to Mrs May. […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May hit back at her critics over the weekend, telling them: ‘Getting rid of me won’t make a Brexit deal any easier.’ She called for unity in what she said was a ‘crucial’ week for the country as her proposed withdrawal agreement with the EU came under renewed fire from all sides. […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May came out fighting tonight to insist that her Brexit deal was the right one for the country and its people. After a day of ministerial resignations and amid growing clamour for a leadership challenge, she told a press conference: “I am going to see this through.” Mrs May was speaking after […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May will chair a make or break meeting of her cabinet this afternoon as she fights to win backing for an outline agreement on Brexit with the EU. As a prelude to the 2pm meeting, ministers were summoned individually to Downing Street to be briefed by Mrs May and read the 500-page […]
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At least 11 people wrongly deported from the UK in the Windrush scandal have since died, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has admitted. The toll may be even higher, campaigners fear, after Mr javid said his officials had been unable to contact many people caught up in the deportations. Javid supplied the new figures to the […]
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A drop in the number of migrants coming to the UK is giving companies a recruitment headache, according to new findings. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which represents HR professionals, says there is a shortage of workers from inside and outside the EU. Vacancies are becoming increasingly more difficult to fill, forcing […]
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Labour’s shadow Brexit Secretary insisted today that a hard Brexit could be stopped – directly contradicting his leader Jeremy Corbyn’s claim that it could not. Sir Keir Starmer said MPs could “absolutely” act to prevent the UK from crashing out of the EU without a deal after the departure date of March 29 next year. […]
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Theresa May’s Brexit plans are under new pressure today, with allies and opponents reportedly united in expressing concern that it is ‘the worst of both worlds’. The Prime Minister’s Chequers proposals were dealt another blow last week when Transport Minister Jo Johnson resigned. He demanded a ‘People’s Vote’ on Brexit as he did, saying the […]
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Former Brexit Secretary David Davis says departing the European Union without a deal in place is “not as frightening as people think.” Mr Davis, who resigned earlier this year over Prime Minister Theresa May’s ‘Chequers plan” for Brexit, said there might be “hiccups” at first. But he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that no […]
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Chemotherapy treatment is to be scrapped at one of the country’s largest health trusts because of a shortage of cancer nurses. The measure takes effect next week at King George Hospital’s specialist cancer unit the Cedar Centre in Ilford, Essex. Managers say they were left with no other choice after four cancer nurses at the […]
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