The European Union has outlined three reasons for allowing Brexit to be delayed. In a memo obtained by BuzzFeed News EU leaders will be advised that delaying Brexit will make sense in only three scenarios: to give more time to prepare for no deal, to complete ratification of the withdrawal...
The expression “it could be worse” has officially fallen into disuse after Britain hit rock bottom. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Sayings the current political impasse has left the UK in such disarray that there is literally no way things could be worse as things stand. As such expressions...
An armed forces team which includes veterans with life-changing injuries is preparing to compete in one of the world’s toughest off-road rallies. The military personnel, part of Future Terrain charity, will be thrashing Dacia Duster 4x4s through the Atlas Mountains and Sahara Desert in the grueling Carta Rallye. This means...
DUP sources have said the party cannot support the Prime Minister’s deal in tonight’s vote, which effectively kills off any chance of it getting Commons' backing. Sky News correspondent David Blevins confirmed that a source close to the party said they did not see how the party could support the...
Scottish Labour delegates packed into a fringe event on democratic reform this weekend to hear bold proposals for a ‘new constitutional settlement’ under a Labour government. The meeting, co-sponsored by Unison Labour Link, the Red Paper Collective and Politics for the Many, saw Corbyn’s constitutional adviser launch key proposals (dubbed...
The owner of Domino's first UK store in Luton will celebrate his 20th anniversary by opening the 1,100th store in Birmingham this week. Pizza tycoon Arshad Yasin, who started out as a delivery driver and now owns Domino’s first UK store, added the new store in Birmingham’s Star City to...
People living in Britain have one and a half years slashed from their life expectancy due to air pollution, warns new research. Dirty air also causes double the number of deaths than previously thought, according to the study. The findings suggest that an estimated 8.8 million people died globally from...
Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed suspicions aired in the Commons last night that nothing has fundamentally changed in relation to the backstop in the withdrawal agreement. Labour's Shadow Brexit Secretary waved a fat wad of legal papers in the chambers last night and asked: "Is a single word of the...
Up to 1,000 car repair companies could collapse within two weeks of a no-deal Brexit, according to leaked minutes from a meeting of leading industry figures seen by Business Insider. Demonstrating how a lack of trade deals would put a sledgehammer to supply chains the meeting notes show industries which...