Britain should only allow extended Brexit transition to prevent Irish backstop, says Brexit secretary Dominic Raab October 21, 2018 Brexit minister Dominic Raab has said the UK should reject an extended transition period unless the EU abandons its demand for an Irish backstop. Theresa May's suggestion that the UK could remain attached to the European Union after December 2020 could only be an "alternative" to the backstop suggestion, Raab wrote in the Telegraph. Read [...]
Thousands expected to march for second EU referendum in London October 20, 2018 Thousands of people are expected to march in central London today for a final referendum on the Brexit deal, the so-called people’s vote. Read more: UK ready to agree Irish backstop deal to speed Brexit talks The march started at midday in Park Lane and finishes in Parliament Square where marchers will hear speakers, including TV [...]
UK ready to agree Irish backstop deal to speed Brexit talks October 20, 2018 UK Prime Minister Theresa May is reportedly prepared to agree a backstop deal for the border between the UK and Ireland which does not have a time limit. Bloomberg reported yesterday that May is willing to make the move to help speed Brexit talks. Read more: Varadkar says even with Brexit transition extension Irish ‘backstop’ [...]
Irish premier Varadkar says even with Brexit transition extension Irish ‘backstop’ needed October 19, 2018 Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said today that even if the UK’s post-Brexit transition period were extended Ireland would still need a backstop arranged to prevent a hard border with Northern Ireland. Speaking on the third day of the EU summit meeting in Brussels, Varadkar said without an Irish backstop any withdrawal treaty may fail to [...]
Tory MP says he wouldn’t vote for his own party today October 19, 2018 A Conservative MP has said he wouldn't vote for his party if he wasn't already in parliament, labelling Theresa May's government a "s**tshow". Johnny Mercer, elected in 2015 as the representative for Plymouth Moor View, told the parliament's The House magazine yesterday that there was "absolutely no chance" he would run for a Tory candidacy [...]
Singapore Prime Minister says EU-Singapore trade deal could be extended to UK post-Brexit October 19, 2018 Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said today he would be prepared to extend the terms of Singapore’s recently agreed trade with the European Union to the UK. “We hope we will be able to continue arrangements with Britain whether or not it is inside the EU… And then we have time to work some [...]
Brexit deal is 90 per cent agreed, says Barnier, but Northern Ireland impasse may scupper it October 19, 2018 A Brexit deal between the UK and the EU is very close to completion, politicians on both sides of the table said this morning. However, the prospect of reaching an agreement is still in doubt, said the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier. “Ninety per cent of the accord on the table has been agreed with [...]
How dare MPs be such brazen hypocrites over abuse claims October 19, 2018 Inappropriate touching. Groping. Sexual slurs. Men trying to kiss unwilling women, dragging them into secluded spaces, making derogatory, objectifying comments about their appearance. Telling them to be “sexier”. Similar, though less widespread, harassment of junior men. When the news broke that this toxic behaviour was widespread in Hollywood, it was met with an international outcry and [...]
No one in their right mind wants another year of Brexit transition – except the EU October 19, 2018 Who is smiling on the Prime Minister’s announcement that the transition period after exiting the EU could be extended by an extra year? Not the hardline Brexiteers, many of whom think that the UK should have left the bloc yesterday. Not the ultra-Remainers either – an extension of the transition still leads to the inevitable [...]
UK not heading for derivatives cliff edge after Brexit, say EU officials October 18, 2018 European officials have said there will be no cliff-edge drop for derivatives markets if Britain leaves the EU without a deal. Olivier Guersent, an aide to the bloc’s head of financial services, told a Politico event: “There is no cliff edge." He made the remarks after his boss, Valdis Dombrovskis, had said that derivatives clearing [...]