A legal dispute over the suspension of Parliament by the government this week has raised the prospect that Prime Minister Boris Johnson may have lied to the Queen, a claim which he strongly denies.
The British government has released the much-discussed ‘Yellowhammer’ documents, but refused to hand over the private messages of civil servants in response to demands made by Parliament over Brexit.
A spokesman for the government has called Nigel Farage a “not fit and proper” person who shouldn’t be allowed near government, rebuking in the strongest terms the offer of an electoral pact given by the Brexit leader in recent weeks.
A Scottish judge ruled Wednesday that the government suspending Parliament for five weeks until mid-October is illegal, leading to Downing Street questioning the impartiality of the ruling judge, and Scottish politicians in turn accusing the government of acting dictatorially.
The United Kingdom faces another humiliating symbol of its political class having failed — by accident or design — to deliver the Brexit decision made by the British people in 2016 as it faces being forced to nominate a new European Commissioner.
The economic picture for the United Kingdom continues to look positive while indications for the European Union progressively worsen, with the latest figures showing another rise in the number of people in employment, and wage rises in Britain.
The United Kingdom will not face fresh national elections in the short term after Parliament voted against submitting itself to the approval or otherwise of the British people for the second time.
A former Labour member who quit his own party over the anti-Semitism scandals surrounding leader Jeremy Corbyn unexpectedly turned Monday’s Brexit debate around, roasting the Labour leader for failing to uphold the same standards he accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson over.
John Bercow will resign his position before the end of next month, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts himself on a collision course with the nation’s predominantly anti-Brexit Parliament, as he prepared to end the longest Parliamentary session in modern history Monday.
“There is no electricity, there is no water. I do blame Mugabe for that because he’s the one who drove all the white farmers out of the country. If it wasn’t for him, we would be in a better state by now.”
Boris Johnson’s government will use all legal means available to deliver Brexit on time, according to reports, as the tug of war over Brexit between Britain’s anti-referendum result Parliament and the minority, pro-result government rages on.
The High Court has rejected a legal appeal launched by anti-Brexit lawfare activist Gina Miller and supported by former Prime Minister John Major, after they attempted to block Boris Johnson from proroguing Parliament this month.
London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan apparently hadn’t received the day’s talking points from Labour head office Wednesday, as he expressed his disappointment at there not having been a general election recently just hours before Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sensationally blocked one from taking place.
The team around Boris Johnson already considers the general election campaign underway despite Wednesday’s failure to pass a motion enabling the vote, with the government expected to try again on Monday.
British Prime Minister mocked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for refusing to support a general election, taunting the hard-left figure for being the first opposition leader in British history to vote in favour of the government not being dissolved.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to call a snap general election on Wednesday if Parliament votes to ban the United Kingdom from fully leaving the European Union, but the same Parliament now has the right to block that election, saving their own jobs while leaving British political life in a damaging state of limbo.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson followed through on his threat to expel anti-Brexit rebels from the governing Conservative Party Tuesday night, exiling 21 predominantly ex-minister Members of Parliament for voting against the government.
Vice President Mike Pence and the Irish Prime Minister met Tuesday, with the U.S. leader calling on Ireland to be more cooperative with Britain on Brexit and urging the nation to adopt a position of “good faith”.
While polling suggests a general election without Brexit having been delivered would be a fatal blow to the Conservatives, the Brexit Party’s Nigel Farage has said he would give Boris Johnson a clean run at victory on the condition he scrapped Theresa May’s hated Brexit deal.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused Parliament rebels plotting to vote against the government and Brexit on Tuesday of working to cut the legs out from beneath the national interest, and told the nation he did not want to see a general election.
Sir John Major, the former British Prime Minister who was accused of proroguing Parliament in 1997 for cynical political reasons has himself joined a legal effort against Boris Johnson for using the same constitutional mechanism.
Boris Johnson’s plan to suspend Parliament was leaked to the press hours before it was meant to take place, despite the trip only being known to a small handful of senior cabinet ministers and civil servants, a British newspaper has claimed.
U.S. President Donald Trump wrote of his support for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday, just hours after the British leader announced he would be suspending Parliament in September and October, a move which has outraged anti-Brexit campaigners.
The longest-standing Parliament in modern British political history will come to an end in September, a decision which has outraged anti-democracy politicians in the United Kingdom because it gives them less time to plot against the Brexit process.
Boris Johnson’s government is activating the constitutional mechanism to suspend Parliament on Wednesday, a move which has outraged Remainers because it limits the amount of Parliamentary time available to them to sabotage Brexit taking place at the end of October.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has invited British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to be courageous and to do “the right thing” and deliver a full, World Trade Organisation-rules Brexit, promising his support in a “non-aggression pact” if he did so.
The number of failed asylum seekers who should be deported from the United Kingdom has near doubled in five years, and new refugees are arriving into the country every week with 28 individuals known to have landed in Kent overnight.
Boris Johnson has said his optimism over getting an agreement for Brexit signed between the United Kingdom and the European Union has grown but stands by earlier remarks that suspending Parliament would be an acceptable option to make sure Brexit is delivered.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was seen shaking his fists in victory Thursday evening as he returned to London from two days of talks in Europe, but top Brexiteers have warned him the insignificant changes he is trying to achieve to Theresa May’s disastrous withdrawal deal are not enough.
French President Emmanuel Macron has poured doubt over the possibility of any progress on renegotiations of Theresa May’s failed withdrawal deal.
President Trump criticised wealthy northern European state Denmark for its insufficient support of the NATO alliance in comments that follow a war of words over the nation’s mocking dismissal of the President’s interest in Greenland.
While European leaders rebuff UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s attempts to achieve a last-minute Brexit deal, the French government now expects the United Kingdom to depart the European Union without any deal at all on October 31st.
President Trump has cancelled a trip to the small European state Denmark, after Danish leaders ridiculed his offer to consider negotiations over the purchase of semi-autonomous territory Greenland from the state.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will receive full military honours when he arrives in Berlin Wednesday evening.
An English police force is to become the first in the country to issue every officer with electric stun-guns known as Tasers, news that comes days after a police officer was murdered by criminals and among a sharp rise in violence against officers overall.
Boris Johnson wrote a four-page letter to European leaders before a week of meetings with top EU officials and heads of state, only to see his proposals immediately rejected.
The hard-left leader of Britain’s Labour party has called on a coalition of anti-freedom members of Parliament to back him in bringing down the government to prevent what he called a “Trump deal Brexit” from taking place later this year.
The junior coalition partner in Italy’s left-right populist government is pushing the country towards fresh elections as the pro-border control League party led by Matteo Salvini continues to dominate in the polls, and relations between the two governing parties collapse.
Some 34 per cent of Europeans said immigration was one of their top concerns in 2019, putting the issue comfortably ahead of the competition for another year.
British voters are less likely to trust the European Union than their counterparts on the continent and have experienced their sharpest increase in Euroscepticism since before the 2016 Brexit Referendum according to the EU’s own figures.
