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.
Reports have revealed that the Labour Party is planning to vote down the Queen’s speech next month and attempt to topple the Conservative government with a confidence vote, whilst the rabidly pro-Remain Liberal Democrats plan to rally behind revoking Article 50, cancelling Brexit altogether.
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.
The future president of the European Council has expressed concern about Britain politically drifting away from Europe and towards America, the comments coming as the UK reportedly threatened to pull out of EU defence commitments.
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 Conservatives are set to break Commons tradition and field a candidate in John Bercow’s constituency at the next election over the Speaker’s pro-Remain bias.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that he is “100 per cent sincere” about a non-aggression pact with the Conservatives and has pledged to not stand candidates against the 28 Tory “Spartans” in the European Research Group (ERG) who opposed Theresa May’s soft-Brexit deal.
‘How are we going to cope without Amber Rudd?’ Said no one, ever.
Dominic Raab has said that Boris Johnson is “sticking to his guns” on his Brexit plans, saying that despite the efforts of Jeremy Corbyn’s “surrender bill” to stop no deal Brexit, the UK will leave the EU on October 31st “come
LONDON (AP) — A British Cabinet minister has quit Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government, saying she disagrees with his Brexit strategy.
Members of the Conservative Party’s European Research Group (ERG) are reportedly holding “very tentative” talks with the Brexit Party over striking an election pact.
Boris Johnson has said that he “will not” ask the EU for a further Brexit delay even if anti-Brexit legislation is passed, with Remainers planning to take the prime minister to court if he refuses.
Beneficiaries of the status quo of UK’s membership in the EU will not yield to popular will for Brexit without a fight, said Henry Olsen.
Boris Johnson has drained the swamp of the Conservative parliamentary party so thoroughly that even his own brother Jo Johnson MP has slunk off to spend more time – as the joke has it – away from his family.
Britain’s opposition parties say they won’t support Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s call for an election when it comes to a vote next week.
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.
American Vice President Mike Pence met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, conveying that the United States “supports the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union”.
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.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s divide over Brexit has cost Prime Minister Boris Johnson another member of his embattled government — his own brother.
Like all Americans, I’ve been deeply moved and horrified by the recent spate of mass shootings. Surely, I thought, there must be some commonsense gun regulations that could put an end to the carnage — red-flag laws, longer waiting periods, age limits, something!
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.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s House of Commons has approved an attempt by lawmakers to stop the country leaving the European Union in October without a divorce deal, sending it to Parliament’s unelected upper chamber for debate.
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.
An attempt by British lawmakers to stop the country leaving the European Union in October without a divorce deal has passed its first major hurdle in Parliament.
After Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost a vote to the Remainer-dominated House of Commons, the Europeans have said that a no deal Brexit is now more likely than ever.
My prediction is that in a few weeks’ or months’ time we’ll look back on this era in our political history as of one of unfathomable lunacy and near-total irrelevance.
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.
The highest court in Scotland found Wednesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s planned prorogation of Parliament is lawful and can proceed unhindered.
Steve Baker MP has called for an election pact between his Conservative Party and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in the event of a snap election, saying otherwise there will be a victory for the “Remain coalition”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Britain’s Parliament is “on the brink of wrecking any deal” his government might be able to make with the European Union on Brexit terms.
Brexiteers have called out the “betrayal” of MPs voting to take over Commons business in order to push a bill that could make a no deal Brexit illegal.
MPs have voted to seize control of the agenda and have a vote on stopping no deal Brexit, with Prime Minister Johnson confirming the government will table a motion to hold a General Election.
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”.
Philip Lee has crossed the floor during Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s speech in the House of Commons to join the Liberal Democrats, wiping out the Conservative government’s majority.
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.
Remainer MPs will try to take over the House of Commons this week and pass a bill to stop the UK leaving the EU on October 31st in a no deal, and Boris Johnson has reportedly threatened an October 14th election if Tories defy him and thwart his Brexit plans.
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott advised Britain on Monday to set a cap on skilled migration to avoid being “swamped” in a post-Brexit world.
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.
