Boris Johnson has announced that he will try again to trigger an early general election, which he wants to hold on Thursday 12th December – in just seven weeks’ time.
This was the same time-frame Teresa May allowed for the 2017 General Election , so who knows if the outcome will be wildly dif [...]
Katy Clark made the following comments regarding her decision to stand and be considered for the Labour candidacy in Vauxhall at the general election, in place of the present Labour MP and veteran Brexit-campaigner Kate Hoey:
"I am delighted to be on the shortlist for selection in Vauxhall, wh [...]
The House of Commons voted in favour of Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill at its second reading tonight by a majority of 30, with 329 votes to 299. This win for the Prime Minister is supposed to allow the withdrawal agreement legislation to proceed to the next stage.
But MPs have also voted to reje [...]
The government says it will push ahead with efforts to pass its Brexit deal, despite a major setback to its plans.Boris Johnson had to ask the EU for an extension to the UK's 31 October exit date after MPs backed a move to delay approval of the deal on Saturday. But Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab s [...]
New data from ComRes, commissioned by Britain Elects, has suggested tactical voting may play a decisive part come the next general election, with a significant proportion of Leave voters indicating they’d be willing to change their vote depending on which Brexit-supporting candidate is endorsed by [...]
Boris Johnson is in a race against time to sell the Brexit deal he has struck with the EU to MPs ahead of a Commons vote on Saturday.The prime minister insists he is "very confident" of getting the majority he needs to "get Brexit done" by his 31 October deadline.But the DUP and every opposition par [...]
There is a "narrow path" to a Brexit deal this week, but the two sides have to agree the details by the end of Tuesday, the EU's negotiator has said.
Michel Barnier said it was "time to turn good intentions into legal text" if EU leaders were to back the terms of the UK's exit at a summit on Thursd [...]
Should’ve gone to Brex savers?
When Boris Johnson got his first pair of glasses a few years back, he admitted his vanity prevented him from wearing them regularly. “It’s a point of machismo... I use them [only] if I have to,” he said. A year later, he finally confessed: “I’m now so sho [...]
Boris Johnson has accepted that he has until the end of the week to save his Brexit plan, it is understood.
If a no deal scenario is avoided, it is more likely that the PM will get parliament to accept his call for an early General Election. If not, then it is anyone's guess, depending on [...]
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