Britain’s House of Commons is voting on Theresa May’s so-called Withdrawal Agreement just hours before the nation was supposed to leave the European Union, with or without a deal — a deadline betrayed this week by Parliament after they voted to postpone Brexit months or even years into the future.
Brexiteers have reacted to the failure of the Conservative Party establishment to deliver Brexit on the day the country was scheduled to leave the EU, warning that if MPs vote to pass Prime Minister Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement it would “simply not be Brexit at all.”
One of the most respected figures in British economics has made a last-minute appeal for Brexit sanity, pointing the way forward to a managed no-deal full Brexit while dismissing politicians suffering from collective “nervous breakdown” and project fear claims that don’t reflect reality.
On the day when the United Kingdom was supposed to be leaving the European Union, deal or no deal, at 11 p.m., MPs are instead preparing for a third and final vote on Theresa May’s deal with the bloc. What happens next?
The European Union has reportedly offered April Fools’ Day 2020 as a new Brexit date should Theresa May’s deal fail to succeed on a mooted third attempt to get it through Parliament, assuming Remain MPs move to stop a No Deal on exit on April 12th.
Theresa May is reportedly considering splitting the Withdrawal Agreement vote to get around House of Commons Speaker John Bercow’s ruling that MPs could not vote on the same deal three times.
This morning I had a taste of Britain at its best when I joined about 100 Brexiteers on a leg of the ‘March to Leave’ from Sunderland in the North East of England down to London. The march has come
Having persistently failed to deliver Brexit almost three years after the 2016 vote, members of the British Parliament are voting on a series of potential Brexit options to determine how they want to take Brexit forwards.
Britain’s embattled Prime Minister Theresa May has offered herself as a sacrifice to dissatisfied members of her own Parliamentary Conservative party, promising to resign once she’s got her deeply controversial Brexit ‘deal’ with the European Union through.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has told the EU that unless they want to see his return and want their business dominated by Brexit for years to come, they must reject any Article 50 extension and “get Britain out!”
Britain’s government in name only has been warned by anti-Brexit cabinet ministers that it will face further resignations if it does not give them a free hand to vote against Britain leaving the European Union today.
Tory Brexiteers have reportedly said that they will back Theresa May’s controversial Withdrawal Agreement if she names a date for her departure and hands over the rest of the negotiating process to the next prime minister.
One by one the last true blue Tory diehards are caving on Brexit. Even Jacob Rees-Mogg now concedes that the time has come to give up the fight and accept that Theresa May’s glitter-dipped turd of a Withdrawal Agreement is still preferable to no Brexit at all.
A poll by ComRes has revealed that a majority of voters believe Parliament is trying to stop the UK leaving the EU, the results coming after the Remain-dominated House of Commons succeeded in a power-grab to take control of the Brexit process from the government.
Britain’s predominantly anti-Brexit Members of Parliament voted Monday evening to take control of the Brexit process from Theresa May, but a spokesman has said the government is not necessarily going to accept what Parliament says.
British celebrities took to the streets of London to demand a second referendum on the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, including Game of Thornes actress Lena Headey.
The House of Commons voted on a series of Brexit amendments to a Government motion, intended to indicate whether MPs should take control of Brexit if the Prime Minister’s deal with the EU cannot be passed.
LONDON (AP) – Prime Minister Theresa May says she will not lead Britain out of the European Union without a deal unless Parliament agrees to it — effectively taking that option off the table.
Brexiteer heavyweight Boris Johnson has slammed the Government’s lack of “gumption”, accusing it of having “chickened out” on Brexit and urging the Prime Minister to “channel the spirit of Moses in Exodus, and say to Pharaoh in Brussels – LET MY PEOPLE GO.”
The European Commission has announced that all of its preparatory work for a clean, no-deal Brexit is complete — four days before the UK was officially scheduled to leave the bloc.
The far left of the Labour Party and Chancellor Philip Hammond, a Remain-voting member of the Tory establishment, are backing different forms of a second referendum on Brexit, in efforts to frustrate the UK’s exit from the EU.
Senior officers in the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force have warned that the United Kingdom is being entangled in the European Union’s military integration schemes, and that the Prime Minister’s proposed Brexit deal with the bloc will undermine national security long into the future.
Police have vowed they “will be prosecuting” British truckers who staged a “go slow” protest after the Government broke its promise to deliver Brexit on March 29th and asked the EU to push the date back.
Theresa May could survive the palace coup which appeared to be unfolding at breakneck speed on Saturday night, as the Cabinet ministers who were frontrunners to take over as “caretaker” leaders publicly disavow the plot.
A full-scale Cabinet coup against Prime Minister Theresa May is now underway, according to insiders, with one senior minister claiming she will be “gone in ten days”.
BERLIN (AP) – Tens of thousands of people have marched in cities across Germany to protest planned European Union copyright reforms that they fear will lead to online censorship.
Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage has addressed hundreds of Leave supporters on the March for Brexit from Sunderland to London, reminding them that “we are the majority”.
LONDON (AP) – British Prime Minister Theresa May has told lawmakers she may not seek passage of her troubled Brexit withdrawal plan in Parliament next week.
Manfred Weber has said he does not want the UK to stay in the EU long enough to take part in the bloc’s elections because he fears the disruption caused by Nigel Farage and British Eurosceptics.
Monty Python star Eric Idle made a risible plea to the European Union to allow Britain back into the bloc, saying that the country “would much rather” be in an alliance with European countries than one with “mad f*ck” Donald Trump.
Theresa May is considering giving MPs a vote on seven Brexit options, including revoking Article 50, over fears her Withdrawal Agreement will not pass in the House of Commons, according to Sky News sources.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lizz Truss MP has backed a No Deal Brexit over a long extension to the Article 50 negotiations with the European Union — pushing Brexit day far into the future, and possibly preparing the way for its ultimate cancellation — indicating she does not believe the more lurid scare stories peddled by Project Fear.
Remainer Tory ministers are holding Brexit hostage by threatening to resign over a vote that could force the UK into a long Brexit delay and possibly into a second referendum.
The chief executive of popular fashion retailer Next has said there is “no evidence” the Brexit vote has hit consumer spending, and even indicated that the company will be able to make savings which is can pass on to customers in the event of No Deal.
Nigel Farage has announced that he will be standing as leader of the Brexit Party, after Prime Minister Theresa May succeeded in cancelling Brexit Day.
European leaders meeting late into the evening Thursday rejected the British Prime Minister’s request for a three month Brexit delay, agreeing to give her three weeks instead.
British actor Hugh Grant has demanded that the British government cancel their decision to leave the European Union, saying only “sane” people support remaining as the prospect of the country leaving the EU bloc without a formal withdraw agreement continues to rise.
Prime Minister Theresa May is under fire from all sides after writing to the European Union to request a three-month delay to Brexit, and blaming Parliament for the impasse.
Government ministers are preparing to launch No Deal exit plans on Monday if the EU27 reject a Brexit delay.
Nigel Farage has condemned Theresa May for her handling of Brexit, after the prime minister blamed Parliament for Brexit Day being cancelled because MPs refused to make a choice — the choice of accepting her unpopular Withdrawal Agreement.
