Theresa May’s Brexit trading plan fails to win over key Tories November 22, 2018 Theresa May's hopes of winning over rebel Tories were dashed on Thursday as a string of MPs spoke out against the latest part of her Brexit plan. A 26-page declaration on the UK and EU’s future trading arrangement was released following late Wednesday night talks between negotiators in Brussels, committing both sides to an “ambitious, [...]
Life under Network Rail offers a glimpse of the future if Corbyn were left in charge November 21, 2018 The shambles that is Network Rail continues to blight our lives. City A.M. readers may have experienced the cancellation of many services into Waterloo on Monday, due to engineering works overrunning. Even the best-laid plans can go astray. But this week was not just a one-off event. It seems to be a permanent feature of [...]
Labour’s childish antics over Brexit are an embarrassment November 20, 2018 The Brexit deal is on the table and the bids to support it, scrap it, or make it utterly redundant are now in full swing. As Theresa May moves forward with her plan to engineer a parliamentary majority for a proposed exit deal, clear political camps have begun to form. The Tory moderates who have [...]
CBI chief calls Labour’s approach to business more ‘command and control than partnership’ November 19, 2018 The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has accused Jeremy Corbyn of offering a "command and control" approach to business rather than partnership after the Labour leader addressed its annual conference earlier today. CBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn said firms had made an offer to Labour to work with business to create a "truly competitive and fair country". [...]
Jeremy Corbyn says a second Brexit referendum is ‘not an option for today’ November 18, 2018 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has distanced himself from calls for a second referendum, saying it was an "option for the future" but not one for "today". Speaking to Sky News, Corbyn said his party would vote against the draft withdrawal agreement because it failed to meet Labour's six tests, one of which is that it must [...]
Brexit deal agreed by cabinet after ‘impassioned’ five-hour meeting November 14, 2018 Theresa May squeaked her Brexit deal through a divided Cabinet on Wednesday in an historic moment for the UK. After a five-hour meeting the Prime Minister emerged from Downing Street at just after 7pm to declare her ministers had backed her controversial proposals on how to withdraw the UK from the EU. The marathon meeting [...]
Labour’s Keir Starmer insists Brexit can be stopped as he defies Jeremy Corbyn November 12, 2018 Labour’s top team is once again at odds over Brexit, with frontbencher Sir Keir Starmer contradicting his leader’s claim the decision to leave the EU cannot be reversed. Speaking on Monday morning, the Shadow Brexit secretary said: “Brexit can be stopped – but the real question is what are the decisions we are going to [...]
Forget Trump, the midterms are about populism November 6, 2018 When the results of the US midterms start to come in this evening, some here in the UK will roll their eyes and think “what a crazy country”. Others will wonder why Britain and America are such anomalies with Brexit and Trump, and wish that we could be more like, say, Germany. The truth is [...]
Watchdog summons Corbyn and McConnell to meeting over misuse of statistics November 4, 2018 The staff of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell have been summoned to a meeting by the UK’s statistics watchdog over the misuse of stats. Statistics Authority chairman David Norgrove has previously written to the Labour Party over a “lack of published information on sources, assumptions and methods to support statements”. In February [...]
Corbyn’s tipping tirade lays bare his anti-business agenda November 1, 2018 Jeremy Corbyn has had another brainwave. The Labour leader wants to make it illegal for businesses to “pocket” tips and optional service charges. Some restaurants and hospitality firms currently collectivise what we add to our bills or give to waiters and waitresses. They might directly pool tips to redistribute them through a common fund system [...]