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The UK will concede that there will be no "regulatory divergence" on the island of Ireland, according to a draft text seen by RTE News. Late last week Ireland’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister said he had been in talks with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party on the subject, saying a Brexit deal on the Irish border question is “doable”. The government repeated its demand for an assurance from the UK that there would not be any regulatory divergence between Northern...

There has been a stark warning from Britain’s largest business group about the future of the UK economy. The CBI has said that the UK will face a sluggish period of growth at the same time the global economy will enter a strong and positive economic outlook. The Eurozone will also benefit from a good period of growth. The UK’s GDP is likely to rise 1.5 per cent in 2017 and 2018 and then slowing to 1.3 per cent in...

Hundreds of thousands more children and pensioners have been plunged into poverty over the last four years. A devastating report has today revealed some 400,000 more youngsters and 300,000 more elderly people are now living in poverty compared to 2012/13. The results track the period in which the Conservative's austerity cuts were implemented, highlighting the ruinous impact they have had on British society. Joseph Rowntree Foundation chief executive Campbell Robb said: “These worrying figures suggest that we are at a turning...

The National Rifle Association is expected to score its first big legislative win of the year just two months after the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The new gun bill will force states with strict gun laws to recognise firearms permits from states with lower thresholds - even if they're from states that don’t barre convicted stalkers or people with histories of domestic violence. It has been described as the NRA's "highest legislative priority in Congress", and is expected to...

Survation the most accurate pollster of the General Election in 2017 has indicated that Labour’s lead over the Tories is growing. This will strike fear into the Conservative Party, who are struggling to get to grips with Brexit and have been mired in a number of recent scandals. The poll reads as followed Labour 45 % (+1) Conservatives 37 % (-1) LibDem 6% (-1) UKIP 4 % (-) Green 1% (-) With pressure increasing on Theresa May on a daily...

Villagers have been left seething after the remains of a Grade II-listed church building and its graveyard could be demolished to make way for the HS2 rail line. The threat posed to Heath Church from the HS2 scheme has been labelled 'authorised vandalism'. Church leaders have been further aggrieved that the plans, which are still in the earlier stages, were only brought to light 'incidentally' during a consultation meeting. The church is believed to have been established around 1162 but...

Nigel Farage today defended Donald Trump's retweets of extremists Britain First and told the BBC's Andrew Marr: "I've done more than anyone else to stop the rise of the far right in this country." "I did it by taking away those people who were going and voting for the BNP and holding their nose," insisted Farage. "So when it comes to dealing with the far right I have got a very good track record." The former Ukip leader and LBC...

This is the moment firefighters cut free 11 'illegal immigrants' who were SUPERGLUED into the back of a lorry by traffickers. The ten Iraqis - including six children - and one Afghan national were discovered when the lorry pulled into a lay-by and people in a nearby cafe heard "shouting". Police arrived but were forced to call the fire service for help to open the lorry from Europe because the locks had been glued shut, onlookers said. Fire crews cuttung...

In an astonishingly stupid tweet - even for Donald Trump - the US president tweeted today that he "had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/937007006526959618 It wasn't long before people started pointing out that Trump's tweet technically meant that the President just confessed to obstruction of justice. Soon after firing his national security adviser Michael Flynn, the President had told James Comey, then the head of the FBI to back off...