Michel Barnier warns Theresa May's plans for the UK to leave the single market and customs union means “border checks are unavoidable” Barnier insists under Conservative government’s new plans a new border in Ireland will be necessary too. Barnier warns the EU may not agree to a transitional period to ...
Every region of the UK is set to become poorer whichever Brexit scenario occurs according to the Government’s own figures it has emerged. As the Government finally caved into MP’s demands to see the official impact assessment report kept hidden from the public but leaked to Buzzfeed last week, it ...
Theresa May accused of giving Donald Trump "green light to get his hands on our NHS” PM refuses to answer questions days after Trump attacks Britain's NHS May in crunch talks with hardline Brexiteer Tories MP's demand assurances British hospitals not open for trade deal carve up Jeremy Hunt asked ...
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have clashed over crime figures and police funding at PMQs, with Corbyn telling May: “You can’t have public safety on the cheap.” “With crime rising does the Prime Minister regret cutting 21,000 police officers,” asked the Labour leader, launching a fractious Prime Minister’s Questions exchange ...
Big change is needed, change that is backed up by law and proper penalties for breaking those laws, says union. GMB, Britain’s general union, has branded the Government’s response to the Taylor Review as ‘trying to put out a forest fire with a water pistol.’ The long-awaited review to Matthew ...
After tens of thousands of Brits descended on the capital to march through central London to Westminster to demand the NHS is protected from cuts and privatisation this weekend, the US President rounded on the march to attack Democrats fighting him for universal healthcare for Americans. Donald Trump tweeted: "The ...
Theresa May has put safeguarding her position from hardline Tory Brexiters above safeguarding a good outcome in Brexit negotiations by committing to taking Britain out of any prospect of a customs union with the EU - however impossible a position that may be. A Number 10 source insisted: “it is ...
Labour MP Sharon Hodgson delivered this incredibly moving speech this week and fought back tears to describe what happened when her third child Lucy was born. The MP for Washington and Sunderland West described how if her stillborn daughter had been born alive “she would have had a birth certificate, ...
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of central London today to call on the government to invest more money in the NHS. NHS staff, union workers, activists, MPs, and celebrities took part in the march from Gower Street to Downing Street to call on Theresa May and ...