UK may not get Brexit deal, says trade secretary Liam Fox after Jo Johnson resignation November 10, 2018 The UK could walk away from the European Union without a deal as the country prepares for Brexit, trade secretary Liam Fox has said. The minister said that Britain would not accept separate treatment for Northern Ireland under a Brexit deal, and dismissed calls for a second referendum. “We may or may not be able to [...]
Donald Trump has labelled French president Emmanuel Macron ‘very insulting’ for EU army comments November 10, 2018 Donald Trump has criticised French President Emmanuel Macron for comments he made about Europe needing an army to protect itself from the US, among other countries. Trump called the comments "very insulting" as he arrived in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war with other world leaders. On Tuesday, Macron called for [...]
Jo Johnson quits as transport minister over Brexit, calling for second referendum November 9, 2018 Jo Johnson resigned from government this afternoon in protest at the Prime Minister’s Brexit strategy, backing calls for a second referendum. Calling Theresa May’s Brexit deal “a terrible mistake”, the minister of state for transport quit his post, claiming the UK economy would suffer from May’s Brexit agreement. “The choice being presented to the British [...]
Police in hospital after car hits convoy carrying Theresa May and Belgian Prime Minister November 9, 2018 A car crashed into a convoy carrying the prime ministers of the UK and Belgium today, injuring two police officers in what appears to have been an accident. The convoy was leaving a British military graveyard where Theresa May and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel had been laying wreaths to soldiers who died in World War [...]
Workers in the capital deserve to be paid the London Living Wage November 9, 2018 Few people would disagree that if you get up, go to work every day, and put in the hard graft, then you deserve to earn an income you can live off. And yet, nearly a fifth of all jobs in our city do not pay a subsistence wage, leaving hundreds of thousands of Londoners struggling [...]
Government will not allow Brexit deal to split Northern Ireland from UK, says minister November 9, 2018 The UK government would not sign a Brexit deal that signs Northern Ireland up to EU rules, a Cabinet minister insisted today. Culture minister Jeremy Wright’s comments come after Prime Minister Theresa May’s Westminster allies threatened to pull support for an agreement if Northern Ireland were separated from the UK via a customs border down [...]
Impeaching Trump would be disastrous for the Democrats November 9, 2018 It took the President mere hours after holding his post-midterms press conference to drop the inevitable bombshell. After months of lambasting Jeff Sessions, the attorney general was being fired, replaced with the more amenable Matthew Whitaker. Why such ire towards Sessions, when he had been one of Donald Trump’s fiercest supporters on the campaign trail? [...]
DEBATE: Should we be concerned that the Brexit secretary didn’t realise the extent to which we rely on Dover-Calais trade? November 9, 2018 Should we be concerned that the Brexit secretary didn’t realise the extent to which we rely on Dover-Calais trade? Richard Angell, director of the think tank Progress, says YES. The admission by Brexit secretary Dominic Raab that he “hadn’t quite understood” how “reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing” the UK is would be funny if it [...]
Women, beware the narrative of victimhood this Equal Pay Day November 9, 2018 Ah, it’s that time of year again. Tomorrow, the Equal Pay Day campaign will tell women that they are now “working for free” until the end of the year. We’ll be told that our male colleagues will receive a full salary, while women are being undervalued and discriminated against in the workplace, and that the fight [...]
London Assembly accuses Sadiq Khan of ‘incompetence’ over Crossrail delay November 9, 2018 London mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of showing "incompetence" in his handling of the delay to the £15.4bn Elizabeth Line. The London Assembly's transport committee branded Khan's response to a letter it wrote in October – in which it accused the mayor of misleading the public about the delay – as "wholly unsatisfactory". On 31 August Crossrail announced [...]