The Uncertain Kingdom; a closer watch over extremism; electric alliance. Here’s our Daily Briefing for January 16, 2019. Golden age. (Source: Bloomberg) After Theresa May’s record failure to push through her Brexit deal in Westminster, Germans are caught between sympathy and irritation. Either way, they’re battening down the hatches. Germany’s chancellor says it’s up to London…
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been rejected in an overwhelming loss by 230 votes in the UK parliament, so what happens next? The UK parliament on Tuesday voted to reject an agreement on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, in the biggest ever defeat of a modern government in the House of Commons. It…
AFP/GETTY IMAGES – The British Parliament voted against a Brexit plan supported by Prime Mininster Theresa May. LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday suffered a humiliating defeat over her plan to withdraw Britain from the European Union, thrusting the country further into political chaos with only 10 weeks to go until it is…
Four Iranians were caught in Huttoft near Mablethorpe on the Lincolnshire Coast Trip is ten times the distance covered by most common route of Calais to Kent Sajid Javid said government should look into patrols in places other than south Migrants are heading to northern England and braving a 200-mile Channel crossing from Belgium to evade…
Theresa May’s Brexit plans have received a major setback after she suffered a second damaging Commons defeat within 24 hours. MPs backed an amendment demanding the Government return within three sitting days with a new plan if it is defeated in next week’s crunch vote on the British Prime Minister’s Brexit deal. The House voted…
LONDON (Reuters) – More Britons want to remain a member of the European Union than leave, according to a survey published on Sunday which also showed voters want to make the final decision themselves. Britain is due leave the EU on March 29, but Prime Minister Theresa May is struggling to get her exit deal…
Getty There’s a certain irony to the fact that migration is yet again making front-page headlines in the UK, with less than 84 days left to run until (deal or no deal) Brexit’s due date. Migration was one of the most polarizing factors behind the UK’s vote to leave the European Union in the first…
Police and Border Force officers where the boat landed on a Kent beach – David Wimble The issue of increasing numbers of migrants trying to cross the Channel in small boats to reach the UK has “no easy answers”, the home secretary says. Sajid Javid is chairing talks in London later after agreeing a joint…
With the March 29 deadline for Great Britain to leave the European Union looming, preparations for a possible “no deal” Brexit have begun. One hundred days now remain until the U.K. is scheduled sever its ties with the EU. The vote on May’s Chequers Plan — which many hardline Brexiteers refer to as a “soft…
Juncker tells PM to tell Europe what she wants in ‘nebulous and imprecise’ debate. EU leaders delivered a devastating knockback to Theresa May after she appealed to them to hold “nothing in reserve” and work with her to salvage her Brexit deal by putting a 12-month limit on the unpopular Irish backstop. The embattled prime minister had…