The House of Commons will be given the first opportunity to vote for a second referendum today. The speaker, John Bercow, selected an amemndment from Sarah Wollaston, who recently left the Tories to join the Independent group. This was not, as you would expect, met with universal approval. The speaker ...
The expression “it could be worse” has officially fallen into disuse after Britain hit rock bottom. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Sayings the current political impasse has left the UK in such disarray that there is literally no way things could be worse as things stand. As such expressions ...
The government was defeated by 149 votes over the PM revised Brexit deal. The result was 242 who approved and 391 who rejected her plan. The PM lost by 230 votes in her original Brexit vote. Jeremy Corbyn asked for No-deal to be taken out off the table. He said: ...
DUP sources have said the party cannot support the Prime Minister’s deal in tonight’s vote, which effectively kills off any chance of it getting Commons' backing. Sky News correspondent David Blevins confirmed that a source close to the party said they did not see how the party could support the ...
Geoffrey Cox seems to be so busy tying himself in knots over Theresa May’s bad Brexit he’s forgotten his own constituents says GMB Union Geoffrey Cox MP has been accused of a dereliction of duty as the famous Appledore shipyard looks set to close in his constituency. The North Devon ...
Scottish Labour delegates packed into a fringe event on democratic reform this weekend to hear bold proposals for a ‘new constitutional settlement’ under a Labour government. The meeting, co-sponsored by Unison Labour Link, the Red Paper Collective and Politics for the Many, saw Corbyn’s constitutional adviser launch key proposals (dubbed ...
Attorney general says May's new deal can still leave UK in backstop against its will. In a huge blow to the PM the Attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, has indicated that the UK could still be trapped in the backstop, even after the concessions May negotiaited last night. The government’s top ...
But he says it all hinges on Attorney General's legal advice
Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed suspicions aired in the Commons last night that nothing has fundamentally changed in relation to the backstop in the withdrawal agreement. Labour's Shadow Brexit Secretary waved a fat wad of legal papers in the chambers last night and asked: "Is a single word of the ...