Brexit: When will MPs vote on Boris Johnson’s deal? October 19, 2019 Parliament will gather today for its first Saturday sitting in 37 years as MPs meet for a crunch vote on Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. What time will Parliament sit? The House of Commons will sit at 09:30 BST with the finish time currently unknown. Peers will sit in the House of Lords at 10:00 with [...]
Three charts that show how MPs could vote on Brexit deal October 18, 2019 The House of Commons will sit on a Saturday tomorrow for the first time since the Falklands War, as MPs face a crunch vote on whether to back Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. The Prime Minister may have got the deal past European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker, but his support in Parliament is on a [...]
Emmanuel Macron says he will veto Brexit delay October 18, 2019 Emmanuel Macron has vowed to veto a Brexit delay if MPs fail to pass Boris Johnson’s proposed deal in a crunch vote tomorrow. The French President today told MPs to back the deal, saying it was the result of “real leaders with real strategic thoughts”. Read more: Interest rates could rise after Brexit deal, BoE [...]
Brits prefer Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal to another delay ahead of crunch MPs’ vote October 18, 2019 Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal may be on a knife edge ahead of tomorrow’s vote in Parliament, but it has found more favour with the rest of the population. A Yougov poll has found 41 per cent of Brits want MPs to vote the new withdrawal deal through, compared to just 24 per cent who are [...]
Boris Johnson’s deal is on a knife edge as Angela Merkel calls on EU to support Brexit delay October 18, 2019 Angela Merkel is said to have told other EU leaders a Brexit extension would be inevitable should MPs reject Boris Johnson’s withdrawal deal. The German Chancellor told fellow European leaders they could not pretend there would be no extension if the UK requested one, according to reports. Read more: PM Johnson scrambles to save Brexit [...]
Kinks aside, the porn block was a puritanical attack on sexual expression October 18, 2019 Farewell to the porn laws, one of the worst thought-through pieces of legislation ever to have been at risk of becoming law. First cooked up in 2015 by David Cameron’s team, the “porn blocker” plan which would supposedly have prevented children from stumbling across adult content on the internet has faced repeated delays, and on [...]
Extinction Rebellion are hurting the climate cause October 18, 2019 The film of the two Extinction Rebellion protesters being pulled off the top of a Tube train in Canning Town on Thursday morning is the moment it all changed. Suddenly, London mayor Sadiq Khan and Labour’s Diane Abbott seemed to be on the wrong side of the argument. In fact, Extinction Rebellion itself seemed on [...]
Debate: Does Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal have a high chance of passing in the House of Commons? October 18, 2019 Does Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal have a high chance of passing in the House of Commons? Yes – Benedict Spence is a freelance writer If MPs have one thing in mind as “Super Saturday” rapidly approaches, it should be this: the public is watching them closely. Boris Johnson has miraculously returned from Europe with a [...]
PM Johnson scrambles to save Brexit deal ahead of key Saturday vote October 17, 2019 The stage is set for a dramatic showdown in parliament this weekend, after a last-minute Brexit deal put the ball in Westminster’s court. Boris Johnson claimed a victory yesterday morning with “a great new deal that takes back control” agreed just minutes before he left London for the European Council in Brussels. The Prime Minister [...]
City of London MP Mark Field quits over Brexit ‘divisions’ October 17, 2019 City of London MP and former minister Mark Field has quit as Conservative MP, citing Brexit “divisions”. Field, who has been elected for the Cities constituency five times, campaigned for Remain during the 2016 referendum. He was suspended as a Foreign Office minister this summer, after a video of him strong-arming a Greenpeace protestor out [...]