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Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled. Mr Johnson suspended – or prorogued – Parliament for five weeks earlier this month, but judges said it was wrong to stop MPs carrying out duties in the run-up to Brexit on 31 October. Supreme Court president Lady Hale said […]
David Cameron has admited he is “truly sorry” at the divisions caused by the EU referendum – but insisted he has no regrets about calling it. The Conservative former prime minister, 52, said he thinks about the consequences of the vote to leave the EU “every single day” and worries “desperately” about what will happen […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has lost a bid to call an early general election to break the Brexit deadlock. The Prime Minister suffered a third major blow in less than 24 hours when lawmakers rejected his motion to dissolve Parliament and call an early election. Fifty-six lawmakers voted against the motion but with only 298 […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has lost his working majority after a Tory MP defected to the Liberal Democrats. Conservative MP Phillip Lee crossed the floor of the House of Commons and joined the Lib Dem benches just as Mr Johnson began giving a statement on last month’s G7 summit. It came ahead of an attempt tonight […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation from Downing Street after 6 pm after chairing a meeting of the Cabinet. He said there were “no circumstances” in which he would ask the EU to further delay Brexit. Boris Johnson said it would “hold us back” if Brussels believed MPs would back a “pointless delay”. […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering seeking an early general election if Members of Parliament wanting to block a no-deal Brexit defeat the government this week. Report Focus News understands “live discussions” are going on in No 10 about asking Parliament to approve a snap poll. Political editor Brilliant Pongo said it could happen […]
London – British lawmakers wrested control of the parliamentary agenda from the government for a day in a highly unusual bid to find a way through the Brexit impasse after Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU divorce deal was rejected again. Lawmakers will now vote on a range of Brexit options on Wednesday, giving parliament a […]
The rejection of Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a second time leaves the country in turmoil. Events over the next two days will have a major impact on how, when – and if – the UK leaves the European Union.
In his legal advice on Theresa May’s Strasbourg agreement, Cox said that new provisions “reduce the risk” of the UK being “indefinitely and involuntarily” held in the backstop, but said that “the legal risk remains unchanged” that the UK would have no legal means of exiting without EU agreement. “I now consider that the legally […]
LONDON: British consumers reined in their spending in February ahead of Brexit and shoppers focused on buying food, including for stock-piling, rather than non-essential items, data released on Tuesday showed. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said total sales edged up by an annual 0.5 percent, a sharp slowdown from growth of 2.2 percent in January. […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday delayed a vote on her Brexit deal in the Parliament, saying it should take place by March 12, a little more than two weeks before the U.K. is due to leave the European Union. The move has the potential to further sow discord within her Cabinet. Three senior […]
Bank of England has warned that Britain Faces its weakest economic growth in a decade The Bank of England announced that Britain faced its weakest economic growth in 10 years in 2019, the bank cited mounting Brexit uncertainty and the global slowdown. But the bank stuck to its message that interest rates will rise, if […]
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