After seeing the shambolic lack of agreement on Brexit in parliament, worried EU figures have started discussing allowing Brexit to be put back until 2020 to let Britain make its mind up. European Union officials had discussed delaying Brexit by three months until this summer, but concerned that this time frame will not be long enough for Britain to sort out its political differences on withdrawal from the EU, there are high-level discussions on extending the time frame now with...
There were dramatic scenes in the House of Commons as tempers frayed and MPs bayed loudly, but the hardline Brexiteers of the ERG party within the Tory Party and her DUP allies who had let the Prime Minister down last night, voted loyally to keep her in power. After suffering the worst parliamentary defeat by a British Prime Minister for at least a hundred years last night, Theresa May scraped through a vote of no confidence called by Jeremy Corbyn...
The Brexit backlash in today's national newspapers was eerily predicted by comedy sketch Little Britain over 15 years ago, TLE can reveal today. Theresa May was roundly lambasted on the front pages this morning, with the Telegraph leading with "A complete humiliation" and the i describing last night's vote as a "historic humiliation". The Guardian ran with "May suffers historic defeat as Tories turn against her", while The Sun called May's Brexit deal "dead as a dodo". It harks back to an early episode of Little Britain in which the...
Up to 100 Labour MPs are set to pivot to a second referendum today, according to Sky News reports. Deputy political editor Beth Rigby posted last night that Labour politicians are set to pile the pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to make a second referendum his Plan B if his vote of no confidence fails. Theresa May is expected to survive this evening's vote with rebel Tory MPs and the DUP coming out in support of the Prime Minister. But she...
The full list of MPs who voted for and against Theresa May's deal with the European Union has been revealed. Some 432 MPs voted against the agreement in total, handing the government the biggest Commons defeat in British political history. The last time a government was defeated by more than 100 votes on the floor of the House of Commons was almost a century ago when the minority Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald went down to a defeat of 166. MPs...
More than 400 MPs rejected Theresa May's deal with the European Union in tonight's meaningful vote. It is an unprecedented defeat in British political history. The last time a government was defeated by more than 100 votes on the floor of the House of Commons was almost a century ago when the minority Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald went down to a defeat of 166. Just 202 MPs voted in favour of May's deal in what Jeremy Corbyn described a "catastrophic...
Five were in a black Mercedes B Class car when the teenager was knocked off a stolen moped before three got out and stabbed him “more than seven times"
The fake brand was seized in Hull, East Yorks., and experts are worried it could contain industrial-strength alcohol which could lead to serious health issues.
We become more and more aware of the need to take fast climate action. The demand and need for measures grow deeper since the planet, climate and environment are changing for decades already. However, for proper measures and projects, we need to fully understand and process how the environment is changing and the consequences of global warming. Investigating the finer nuances how these processes take place is mandatory. The past year has been marked by a series of ground-breaking studies...
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