Xavier Bettel, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, yesterday gave a press conference beside an empty podium intended for Johnson. In one of the more dramatic spectacles of the ongoing political drama, Bettel took the opportunity to express his frustrations at Brexit while gesturing to the empty podium.
The joint press conference between Bettel and Johnson had been due to take...
Prime Minister seeks Brexit consensus to break deadlock
Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will meet MPs over the next few days as she attempts to find a solution to the political impasse over Brexit.
She suffered a heavy Commons defeat in Tuesday's vote on her withdrawal deal and survived a vote of no confidence in...
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Government sees off motion of no confidence by 19 votes
Theresa May’s government survived an attempt to remove them from power by 19 votes in the Commons tonight. MPs who had lined up to vote against the Prime Minister’s Brexit...
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Ruling on Brexit vote puts Speaker in Commons firing line
A row erupted in the Commons last night after Speaker John Bercow broke with precedent to allow MPs to vote on a Brexit amendment and inflict another defeat on...
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MPs demand action over harassment by protestors
More than 115 MPs have demanded an improved police response to abusive protestors targeting politicians outside Parliament. They called on Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick as concerns grew about the...
May fights on as she faces confidence vote
Prime Minister Theresa May said today that she will contest an imminent vote of no confidence in her leadership ‘with everything I have got.’
She issued a defiant message to Tory rebels outside 10 Downing Street after it was confirmed that the 48 letters necessary to trigger a vote had been received.
This is the magic number that must be submitted...
MPs strike back to inflict hat trick of defeats on May
Theresa May endured a hat trick of defeats over Brexit in the Commons yesterday which included her Government being found in contempt of Parliament.
The contempt ruling is the first in history against a Government and means ministers must publish the full legal advice on Mrs May’s Brexit deal instead of a summary.
Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom confirmed shortly...
11 people have died after being wrongly deported from UK
At least 11 people wrongly deported from the UK in the Windrush scandal have since died, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has admitted.
The toll may be even higher, campaigners fear, after Mr javid said his officials had been unable to contact many people caught up in the deportations.
Javid supplied the new figures to the Commons home affairs select committee, admitting...
Retail tycoon Green named over abuse and harassment claims
Billionaire businessman Sir Philip Green was today named in Parliament as the man accused of sexual harassment and racial abuse by a newspaper.
A court injunction had prevented the Daily Telegraph from naming him, but Labour peer Lord Peter Hain used parliamentary privilege to identify him in the Lords.
He said it was his duty to do so, due to the...
‘Cowardly and vile’ abuse of May condemned by all sides
Politicians from all parties have united to condemn anonymous abuse directed at Prime Minister Theresa May by her own MPs.
The comments emerged over the weekend in a Sunday Times article when an unnamed backbench Tory claimed her leadership was nearing the end.
In the article, the MP was quoted as saying: "The moment is coming when the knife gets heated,...
