Politics
MPs approve post-Brexit trade deal, 521 votes to 73
The House of Commons has given its overwhelming approval to Boris Johnson's post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union, passing the bill at its second reading - by 521 votes to 73.
‘Race-to-the-bottom’ – Jeremy Corbyn won’t vote for Brexit deal, full statement
"I cannot vote for this deal, which this Government will use to drive down rights and protections, and step up the sell-off of our vital public services."
Brexiteers ‘can lower spears’ but only 17% of Britons think PM’s deal is good for country
"I think it is time to end the constitutional Kama Sutra that has left us all bruised, exhausted and distracted from our families, from our friends, from our community. "
Quoting Mel Gibson and Nigel Farage, Mark Francois hails victory in ‘Battle for Brexit’
"Perhaps I and my Spartan friends should now lower our spears," Francois proclaimed.
Watch – May takes ‘flame thrower to parliament’ claiming her deal better than PM’s and Starmer didn’t back it
"Theresa May essentially takes a flame thrower to parliament, arguing that her deal was "better" than Boris Johnson's and Keir Starmer should have voted for it."
‘Enormous con job’ – Blackford slams Brexit fisheries plan as as Holyrood to vote against deal
“The fact is that the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) at the moment is a better deal than what we’re going to get with this, but the failure of the UK Government has been to prioritise fishing over a long number of decades."
Watch: Hancock denies dormant Nightingale hospitals being ‘dismantled’
The Nightingale hospitals remain "on standby", the health secretary said.
Brexit deal contains copy-and-pasted references to decades-old software
The document recommends systems now considered extremely vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
Brexit deal is thin and disappointing as Government accused of ‘cultural vandalism’
“The failure to include access to the Single Market for UK services, means businesses will have to rely on 27 different sets of national rules to trade across the EU, where they have one today."