Politics
No-deal Brexit ‘the central assumption’ as Ireland unveils budget
“This is a budget developed in the shadow of Brexit and the context for Brexit has shifted to no deal as our central assumption", the Finance Minster said.
Donald Tusk tells Boris Johnson: “You don’t want a deal”
“You don’t want a deal, you don’t want an extension, you don’t want to revoke, quo vadis?”, he said.
Former Tory and Change UK MP Heidi Allen joins Liberal Democrats
The South Cambridgeshire MP warned that the Conservative Party "had become utterly unrecognisable, uncompassionate and willing to wreck the economy and peace in Ireland by not just contemplating, but actively courting a No Deal Brexit."
Jeremy Corbyn packed out another rally this weekend – but you wouldn’t have heard about it in the media
People queued around the blocks to hear the Labour leader talk at a packed-to-the-rafters rally.
Conservative peer in money fight with estranged wife given suspended jail term
A judge handed Lord Magan, 73, a one-week jail term suspended for six weeks after ruling that he was in contempt of court.
Legal action aimed at forcing PM to send Brexit extension request dismissed
Judge Lord Pentland said he was satisfied with assurances from Number 10 that it would comply with the so-called Benn Act.
Irish leader presses for extension rather than no-deal Brexit
He said was ‘time was tight’.
Brussels deals blow to PM’s Brexit proposals as talks pushed back
Talks between the two sides had been thought likely to continue on Saturday after the Prime Minister set out his plan to replace the backstop.
Brexit – New car market down 2.5% in 2019
Some 1.86 million new cars were registered between January and September, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.