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Mounting that evidence that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is willing to sign up to Theresa May’s withdrawal treaty with the European Union minus its contentious “backstop” may lead to a showdown with Tory Brexiteers on his backbenches. 

DUP leader Arlene Foster has accused the European Union of using the stalemate over renegotiating the UK’s withdrawal treaty to “break up the United Kingdom”. The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, a conservative, Northern Irish party which holds up

London (AFP) – A no-deal Brexit could lead to a united Ireland as more people in Northern Ireland would “come to question the Union” with Great Britain, Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has said.

Boris Johnson, Theresa May’s expected successor as Prime Minister, has said Britain must approach Brexit with the same “can-do” spirit as 1960s America.

A UK judge has ordered that an abortion be performed on a pregnant woman with developmental disabilities despite the opposition of the woman and her mother, who are Catholic.

A new leaked document shows that Theresa May’s plans for a ‘new’ Brexit withdrawal agreement contains no new ideas or any substantial changes that are likely to see it passed in the Commons.

Senior Conservative Party backbenchers are calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to limit the controversial Irish backstop by one year or remove it completely from her withdrawal agreement.

Police in Northern Ireland said Friday they are searching for multiple suspects in the fatal shooting of a journalist during overnight rioting in the city of Londonderry.

Iraq War architect and former New Labour prime minister Tony Blair has pleaded the case for a second referendum on Brexit in the Irish press, alongside former Irish leader Bertie Ahern.

British military veterans have reacted with anger after prosecutors said they will charge ‘Soldier F’ with the murder of two men and the attempted murders of four others during the ‘Bloody Sunday’ protest in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.

The Democratic Unionist Party has slammed the EU’s “degrading proposal” to allow Britain to leave the “backstop” envisioned in Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal without their permission — as long as Northern Ireland is left behind.

Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Gregory Campbell has accused arch remainers John Major and Tony Blair of “playing on the fears” of people living along the Irish border as they campaign to stop the UK making a clean break of the EU.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is set to meet with Northern Ireland’s main political parties as she seeks to break the impasse over her European Union divorce deal.

Prime Minister Theresa May has ruled out removing the Irish backstop from the Withdrawal Agreement, claiming the “insurance policy” prevents a “hard border.” Mrs May described her commitment to maintaining the Good Friday Agreement and avoiding a hard border as “unshakeable,”

Veteran Northern Irish politician David Trimble is backing a court challenge to the British Government over the Withdrawal Agreement which he says could threaten the Good Friday Agreement.

Two men in the thirties have been shot in separate “paramilitary-style” attacks in the Ballymagroarty area of Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Brexit architect Nigel Farage has said that Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar, is playing “the Brussels game of threatening the British” over the Irish border.

Leading Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sammy Wilson has said now is the time to “exploit the cracks” appearing in the EU to win a better Brexit deal — and warned the Irish they will be tossed aside by the bloc when they can no longer be used as leverage.

Pro-EU activists erected a Berlin-style wall manned by menacing armed “soldiers” on the border between Ireland and British Ulster to scare people about the supposed consequences of a No Deal Brexit.

Democratic Unionist Party MP Gregory Campbell has said Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar must “dial down the rhetoric” after the Taoiseach claimed the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland may need an “army presence” in the result of a no-deal Brexit.

LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator says if Britain withdraws without a deal with the EU, he still wants to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

LONDON (AP) – Northern Ireland police and politicians have condemned a “reckless” car bombing outside a courthouse in the city of Londonderry.

Sammy Wilson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) spokesman on Brexit, has warned the European Union that they will be “in trouble” if Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement is voted down.

Sammy Wilson MP has said that there is no way the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will support Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU Withdrawal Agreement, which Members of Parliament are due to vote on next week.

The European Union’s facade of confidence in the Brexit negotiations is beginning to crack, as the Irish government admits it will need “mega-money” in aid to survive the fallout of “No Deal”.

Brexiteer Labour MP Kate Hoey has said that the Republic of Ireland and the European Union have overblown the Irish backstop issue and “connived” to keep the UK close to the bloc to take its money.

Labour’s Kate Hoey had harsh words for Brussels on Friday, saying the United Kingdom did not spend 30 years battling IRA terrorists in Northern Ireland so “jumped-up EU bureaucrats” could carve off the British province as the price of Brexit.

Pro-Brexit group Labour Leave has demanded a public inquiry into the Brexit negotiations after a customs expert told MPs he suspected HMRC was given a “political instruction” not to discuss alternatives to the contentious “backstop”.

Brussels bureaucrats have rejected suggestions that the withdrawal agreement with the UK can be renegotiated, while the European Union ramps up preparation for a clean Brexit.

London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan has said that Prime Minister Theresa May should halt Brexit if her withdrawal agreement with the European Union is voted down in the House of Commons next week.

The European Union is reportedly plotting an extension of the Article 50 period before Britain’s departure in March 2019 as Theresa May’s “worst deal in history” with the bloc heads for a historic defeat in the House of Commons.

Attorney-General Geoffrey Cox has admitted that the United Kingdom will not be allowed to terminate Theresa May’s “worst deal in history” with the European Union unilaterally, but is refusing to release his full legal advice on the deal.

Former U.S. Secretary of State and Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry is in Northern Ireland threatening that Brexit could trigger a new terror campaign in the Province.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has shot down a key Brexit scare story, confirming there is “nothing” in their rules which would require a so-called “hard” border between EU Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland following a “No Deal” Brexit.

Nigel Dodds, who leads Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in the British Parliament, has warned that Theresa May’s “Brexit in name only” deal risks “the break up of the United Kingdom”.

Northern Irish MP Sammy Wilson has said the Prime Minister has “torn up” her Brexit promises and said the EU was using the Irish border issue to cut off the province from the rest of the UK. The comments to