Theresa May defends Brexit deal as threats of leadership challenge mount November 18, 2018 Theresa May appeared defiant this morning, saying she had not considered giving up her leadership despite enduring a tough week of negotiating with the EU on the withdrawal agreement. In her first TV interview since announcing a Brexit deal had been reached, May said that while the past week had been "tough", she had not [...]
Alliance of business leaders urges MPs to scrap May’s Brexit deal November 17, 2018 More than 200 chief executives, founders and entrepreneurs have signed a letter calling on Conservative MPs to vote down Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal, urging them to cast aside their political differences. The document, coordinated by members of the Alliance of British Entrepreneurs (ABE) and seen by City A.M., asks MPs to be subjective in [...]
CIA pins the blame on Saudi Crown Prince for Khashoggi death November 17, 2018 The CIA believes the head of Saudi Arabia's royal family, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is directly responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Reports suggest that sources close to the US intelligence agency have assessed evidence of Khashoggi's murder in detail, and have informed other parts of US government, including Congress, of its [...]
Stephen Barclay replaces Raab as Brexit secretary, as Amber Rudd returns to government as work and pensions secretary November 16, 2018 Stephen Barclay has been confirmed as the new Brexit secretary, while former Home secretary Amber Rudd has been appointed as the Work and Pensions secretary. Barclay, the MP for North East Cambridgeshire, was previously a minister at the Department for Health and Social Care. He takes over from Dominic Raab, who quit his role yesterday [...]
Brexit: These are the MPs who have submitted no confidence letters to the 1922 Committee November 16, 2018 The number of MPs who have admitted to sending no confidence letters in Prime Minister Theresa May surpassed more than 20 today as the threat of a no confidence vote grows. A total of 48 letters must be sent to Sir Graham Brady, chair of the influential backbench 1922 Committee in order to trigger such a [...]
Supreme Court asked to hear government’s appeal against a legal challenge to Brexit process November 16, 2018 The Supreme Court has been asked to consider whether anti-Brexit campaigners can take their case to the European Court of Justice. A group of Scottish politicians, led by Green Party MSP Andy Wightman, want the European court to decide whether Britain can reverse its exit from the European Union without EU approval. In March last year [...]
Gove and Fox to remain in May’s cabinet to work on Brexit’s future November 16, 2018 Michael Gove and Liam Fox have said they will continue serving in Theresa May’s cabinet, after stating they had confidence in the Prime Minister and the future of Brexit. Environment secretary Gove had been widely tipped as the Prime Minister’s next major resignation after eight ministers, MPs and officials quit over Downing Street’s draft Brexit agreement yesterday. He [...]
No confidence vote in Theresa May set to go ahead as Conservative MPs send letters to 1922 Committee November 16, 2018 A confidence vote in the Prime Minister is now reportedly likely, as the number of no confidence letters submitted by Conservatives have reached the limit required to trigger a vote. The forty-eight letters required to force a confidence vote are now with the chairman of the 1922 Committee, according to Brexit Central, which cited an anonymous [...]
Theresa May admits she harbours ‘concerns’ over Brexit deal’s Irish backstop agreement November 16, 2018 Theresa May admitted she has concerns over her Brexit deal’s strategy to avoid a hard border in Ireland as she resisted calls to step down as Prime Minister on LBC today. A string of MPs have resigned so far over her Brexit withdrawal agreement, which puts the UK in a temporary customs union with the [...]
Theresa May has sacrificed herself on the altar of Brexit November 16, 2018 The power of Brexit is infinite. It has broken party lines, destroyed the traditional political order, forced people to reverse ideological positions, challenged the concepts of truth and fact, and sucked every last molecule of oxygen out of Westminster. It also, we have just discovered, has the power to distort time. For months, nothing has [...]