The Conservative Party conference started in Birmingham this week with deep divisions over Brexit threatening to dominate the annual event. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy came under fire on the opening day with former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson launching an attack on her in a Sunday newspaper. Backbench MP and leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg […]
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The Government spent £40,000 of taxpayer cash on a two-year fight to cover up how little its Northern Powerhouse minister visited the north of England. Its attempt to hide embarrassing details of James Wharton’s infrequent trips out of London came to light after a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by The Guardian. Mr Wharton had […]
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A new minister has been appointed to ensure that UK food supplies are protected in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Conservative MP David Rutley has been given the brief at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He is a former food industry executive who ran home shopping and e-commerce businesses for Asda […]
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Campaigners calling for a second referendum on Britain’s departure from the EU have set out six scenarios under which Parliament could legislate for it. Pressure is growing for a ‘People’s Vote’ as the prospect of a hard Brexit grows after the EU27 rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s ‘Chequers plan’ in Salzburg this week. Mrs May […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May is returning home empty-handed from Austria after her plans for Britain’s post-Brexit economic relationship with the EU were rejected. European Council President Donald Tusk said the proposal was “unworkable” echoing the previous stance taken by the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier. Mrs May started the day at the informal summit […]
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Environment Secretary Michael Gove has been criticised after he refused to condemn Conservative MEPs who opposed aEuropean Parliament censure motion against Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Mr Orbán’s ruling Fidesz Party have taken the country down an increasingly right-wing route and the European Parliament had initiated a disciplinary procedure against Hungary for potentially […]
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A hard Brexit would cost car maker Honda tens of millions of pounds in extra tariffs, the company warned today. Honda, which employs 3,500 people at its plant in Swindon, Wiltshire, predicted that its costs would go up by around ten per cent if the UK cannot secure an exit deal with the EU. Despite […]
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New Government proposals to redraw constituency boundaries for the House of Commons would have given the Conservatives a comfortable majority at the last election. The number of seats would fall from 650 to 600 under the plans, with the constituencies of some leading MPs disappearing. The proposed new-look constituency map is an attempt to even […]
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The UKIP leader Gerard Batten appeared to signal that his party was shifting further to the right when he joined an anti-Islam demonstration alongside a federation of football fans. There were three arrests at the weekend demo in Sunderland, according to Sky News, as the Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) scuffled with police who were […]
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The poor reputation of Britain’s railways took a further dip when new figures revealed the worst punctuality figures for more than 12 years. They showed that 14 per cent of trains were late in the 12 months to August this year, as defined by the Industry’s Public Performance Measure (PPM) tables – the worst showing […]
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