Politics

Pro-independence campaigners had their claws out as Boris headed to the remote Orkney islands.

He said that the UK’s principles in these areas ‘are not simple negotiating positions’.

On a personal and professional level, it has been a remarkable year for the man who is probably the most polarising person to occupy Downing Street since Thatcher.

It comes after the ISC published its long-awaited report into Russian interference in British democracy this week, warning that Russian influence in the UK is “the new normal”.

MPs voted down amendments to the bill earlier this week, one of which would have prevented the NHS from being included in any post-Brexit trade deal.

A crowdfunded legal fund established to support Jeremy Corbyn has raised more than £25,000 in under 24 hours. The GoFundMe page was set up by a Corbyn supporter after it emerged that Panorama reporter John Ware plans to take legal action against the former Labour leader. Ware’s lawyer confirmed the possible libel action after Corbyn released a statement on Wednesday, which said that Labour agreeing to settle the party’s case against Panorama “risks giving credibility to misleading and inaccurate allegations”...

Sturgeon said Johnson's presence in Scotland shows how the country's future is being decided by "politicians we didn't vote for, taking us down a path we haven't chosen".

After winning 45 per cent of votes in Great Britain on election day the party went to even dizzier heights in the polls. Then it all changed.

The figures "sink the claims made by the UK Government that people want to see an end to free movement".