Outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May has vowed to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal by aligning with Remainers in the Tory Party including Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Amber Rudd and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond.
Boris Johnson is serious about delivering Brexit but he’ll probably only be able to do this by calling an early General Election in October and by reaching an accommodation with The Brexit Party’s leader Nigel Farage.
Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is maintaining its position as the number one party favoured by the public should the country face a general election to choose its next government, even as the traditional governing parties continue to slip down the rankings.
Chuka Umunna has joined his third political party of the year, as he defected to the Liberal Democrats Thursday night.
Reviving the campaign to prevent Britain making a clean break from the European Union after an attempt to use parliament to outlaw a full Brexit failed on Tuesday night, rebel members of the governing Conservative Party have said they would move to bring down the government altogether to stop Brexit.
Tory leadership contender Rory Stewart has sensationally issued a warning to the frontrunner Boris Johnson and other candidates against shutting down parliament as a last-resort measure to prevent Brexit being frustrated.
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are leading the pack to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after the governing Conservative Party held an internal poll of Parliamentarians Wednesday to whittle the list of ten runners down to seven candidates who will go through to a second round.
British opposition lawmakers failed Wednesday in their latest attempt to ensure the U.K. can’t leave the European Union without a divorce deal.
Boris Johnson launched his leadership campaign Wednesday by promising to deliver Brexit as a prelude to healing “divisions” in the country, but made clear he was absolutely opposed to taking Britain fully out of the European Union in a no-strings-attached “hard” withdrawal.
The Brexit Party could gain 252 seats in the House of Commons if remain-voting Rory Stewart becomes prime minister, while Boris Johnson is the only Conservative Party candidate capable of winning in a General Election with a majority, according to analysis of polling data.
Front-runner Boris Johnson is officially launching his campaign to be Britain’s next prime minister, telling fellow Conservatives they must take the U.K. out of the European Union or see the party wiped out by angry voters.
“Do these people inhabit the same planet as their voters? Do they have any idea what a second betrayal will do to their party?”, said Nigel Farage as Tory leadership candidates talked up delaying Brexit again.
Every credulous pillock in the world is jumping on the Extinction Rebellion bandwagon, the latest being Labour’s Marxist shadow chancellor John McDonnell and, unfortunately, my favourite band Radiohead.
Conservative leadership contender Dominic Raab has vowed to create a cabinet of Brexiteers, refusing to give a government job to any member of Parliament who wouldn’t accept that Britain is leaving the European Union in October.
Sajid Javid has announced plans to abandon the Conservative Party’s pledged immigration target if he becomes Prime Minister.
Seeing their poll ratings plummet and being all but wiped out in the recent European Parliament elections, Britain’s governing Conservative Party is considering whether more of the same may be the answer to their troubles as they work to pick a new leader.
Nominations are closing in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister, with almost a dozen contenders already battling it out over Brexit, tax policy and past drug use.
Tory Party leadership candidate Esther McVey has vowed to take the UK out of the EU in a clean break on October 31st, ditching outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May’s unpopular withdrawal treaty altogether. While other candidates, including Boris Johnson and
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has told Tory Party leadership hopefuls that they cannot renegotiate the withdrawal treaty to improve the backstop, saying the one agreed by Theresa May is “the only one possible”.
Local Conservative activists have asked Dominic Grieve to apply for re-adoption as the party’s 2022 General Election candidate, in their latest attempt to oust the MP over his anti-Brexit stance.
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Theresa May stepped down Friday as leader of Britain’s Conservative Party after admitting failure in her attempt to withdraw the country from the European Union. She will remain as a caretaker prime minister for a few weeks while the party picks a successor.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has summed up Prime Minister Theresa May’s legacy on her last day as party leader: “failure”.
Nigel Farage has delivered a letter to Number 10, demanding the Brexit Party have a seat at the Brussels negotiating table.
Reports of Theresa May’s political demise may have been exaggerated, with her spokesman revealing that, while her time as Conservative Party leader is set to come to an end on Friday, she will remain as prime minister until she “believes that someone else can command the confidence” of MPs.
Boris Johnson has warned that the Conservative Party faces extinction if it does not deliver Brexit.
Tory leadership hopeful Boris Johnson has reportedly snubbed a one-on-one meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, despite the American leader’s warm words about his potential as a possible prime minister.
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton has said that President Donald J Trump is a “strong supporter of Brexit” and is looking forward to negotiating with Brexit Britain.
The Confederation of British Industry has warned candidates for the leadership of Britain’s Conservative Party that leaving the European Union without a deal would devastate the nation’s economy.
Tory baroness Patience Wheatcroft has said her party should turn against Brexit supporters “because they’re wrong”, “very disgruntled with life in general”, and “very uncomfortable with the situation in this country and in their own skins”.
U.S. President Donald Trump is due to make an official State Visit to the United Kingdom next week, and has teased he “may” meet with prominent non-government figures Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson while he is in the country.
Analysis by the Peston show has assessed that the new Brexit Party would wipe out the establishment parties if its European Parliament election victory were translated into General Election constituency seats.
In a feat of astonishing timing, leader of the pack of hopefuls to replace Prime Minister Theresa May as the leader of the Conservative party Boris Johnson has been summoned to court over a ‘”political stunt” crowdfunded private prosecution against him over the Brexit referendum.
The majority (53 per cent) of those who voted for the Conservative Party in the 2017 General Election voted for the Brexit Party in Thursday’s EU election, a poll has revealed.
Two new contenders have joined the race to be the next Conservative Party leader, home secretary Sajid Javid and housing minister Kit Malthouse.
David Cameron is reportedly seeking to make what he hopes would be a dramatic return to party politics and is said to be considering standing as an MP, possibly at the next general election.
Tory leadership contender and Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt stood to attention for the Islamic call to prayer at a Ramadan feast in Whitehall on May 23rd.
Michael Gove has announced that, as in 2016, he will contest the Tory leadership election against, among others, his key ally in the Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson.
Leading Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned of a parliamentary “stitch-up” in the election process of the next leader of the kind that resulted in Theresa May, a Remainer, becoming prime minister of Brexit Britain.
Theresa May has finally conceded that she can no longer remain in Downing Street, announcing she will resign as prime minister on June 7th, and reactions are rolli
Prime Minister Theresa May announced her resignation from outside 10 Downing Street Friday morning, stating she would be officially stepping down in two weeks time.
