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The trailer for a new film which focuses on Vote Leave’s involvement in the EU referendum campaign has been released. In the film Benedict Cumberbatch will swap his deerstalker for a balding head to portray Vote Leave boss Dominic Cummings. The two-hour film titled ‘Brexit: The Uncivil War’ has been written by James Graham, the […]

With exactly 100 days to go to the scheduled date of Brexit, supporters of a People’s Vote have warned of crisis unless the correct path is found through the current uncertainty. David Lammy in the House of Commons. Photograph: PA. – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images Labour’s David Lammy said the prime minister was heading for […]

Britain’s five main business groups have issued an urgent warning about a no-deal Brexit, saying many firms are now reaching “the point of no return”. Contingency plans are being put in place for the UK leaving the EU without a deal, which are a “significant drain” on companies’ time and money, the government was told. […]

Health officials lack a clear post-Brexit recruitment plan which could intensify current medical staff shortages, MPs have warned. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it had not been reassured by a Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) “assertion” that there had not been a large exodus of staff since the 2016 referendum. In a […]

Theresa May’s sense of duty will go only get her so far. MURRAY HAWTHORNE says that she needs to show leadership to end the parliamentary stalemate she created. Theresa May won her vote of no confidence – but only just. Her 200 votes comprise a hollow victory; she herself a leader in purgatory on borrowed […]

The government is being ‘deeply irreponsible’ by playing the ‘ultimate game of brinkmanship’ over Brexit, a a Tory Remain MP has warned. Former business minister Anna Soubry added there was no mandate in the country for a hard Brexit. Her comments were echoed by fellow Tory Justine Greening, who said she would be ‘happy to […]

A Tory former minister has threatened to resign the party whip and vote against the government if it adopts a policy of seeking a no-deal Brexit. Grantham and Stamford MP Nick Boles said on Twitter that he would “vote in any way necessary to stop it from happening”. The former skills minister under David Cameron […]

The government is playing the “ultimate game of brinkmanship” over Brexit, a Tory backbencher has warned. Former business minister Anna Soubry branded the delay to Parliament’s meaningful vote on the prime minister’s Brexit deal “deeply irresponsible”. Her comments were echoed by fellow Tory Justine Greening, who said she would be “happy to sit through Christmas […]

Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of being “the midwife of Brexit” after failing to call a no-confidence vote in the government. The Labour leader tabled a motion calling on MPs to declare they have “no confidence in the prime minister due to her failure to allow the House of Commons to have a meaningful vote […]

3,500 troops will be on stand-by to deal with the impact of a no-deal Brexit, it has emerged as Theresa May ramps up her planning. The prime minister’s Brexit deal remains the preferred outcome for the government, she continues to insist, but with just over 100 days until the UK’s departure from the bloc the […]

Pub chain boss Tim Martin has hit out at businesses demanding ‘certainty’ in turbulent times – despite the fact his own business has been rocked by declining share prices. https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1074651490428416000 The Wetherspoon’s boss said that businesses can ‘thrive from uncertainty’ and that it would be ‘pathetic’ to demand assurances from the government. He told the […]

Iain Duncan Smith has claimed – that despite all of the evidence – the impact of Brexit will be ‘short-term’ and has denied it is affecting jobs. In a television interview with Sky News’ All Out Politics, Duncan Smith claimed that he had ‘intelligence’ to suggest the EU were not expecting Britain to increase preparations […]

Britain’s politicians and people have “dropped the vase” over Brexit and left the country in chaos, one of Theresa May’s closest EU allies has said. In an open letter to Dutch voters, Netherlands prime minister Mark Rutte compared the UK to a fragile vase and warned that it could “easily break”. He held up the […]

A Tory MP has said planning for a no-deal Brexit should have started straight after the vote in 2016 – not three months before Britain’s planned exit. Colin Clark, MP for Gordon, said there must be a plan in place in the event of the UK departing the EU without a deal. Prime minister Theresa […]

A caller to James O’Brien’s radio show has claimed he voted for Leave so that he can continue to use three-pin plugs in the UK. Robert from Rochester called the LBC radio phone-in programme to give his verdict on a second referendum. However when it came to asking why the caller was so incensed on […]

European Research Group chair Jacob Rees-Mogg has u-turned on his views on Theresa May – days after he demanded she quit. The Brexiteer appears now to support May through fear that Brexit could be lost altogether through a People’s Vote. He told Sky News: ‘I lost the vote last week and if you lose, that […]

Theresa May will meet with her cabinet to reportedly discuss ramping up no-deal preparations with little more than 100 days to go to Brexit, having effectively dared Jeremy Corbyn to try to bring down her government. Downing Street accused the Labour leader of a political ‘stunt’ after he tabled a long-threatened but non-binding motion of […]

There are still many questions to think about when it comes to another EU referendum. Former Conservative party adviser BARNABY TOWNS argues that anti-Brexit campaigners should be pushing to stop the Article 50 clock first. When the history of the Brexit crisis is written, the decision to trigger the Lisbon Treaty’s Article 50, setting the […]

A colourful anti-Brexit demonstration took place at the Irish border as the ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ bus arrived in town. The distinctive yellow bus rolled into the Irish borderlands on Monday, and stopped at a former checkpoint hut which straddles the boundary. Activist Madeleina Kay posed for photographs dressed as EU Supergirl, alongside Drew Galdron, aka […]

Theresa May has set the timetable for a decisive showdown with MPs over her Brexit deal in January. The prime minister said the Commons would have the chance to debate her Withdrawal Agreement in the week MPs return to Westminster after Christmas on January 7. The crucial vote – which was postponed earlier this month […]

Theresa May has been accused of both ‘not listening’ and stifling debate over Brexit in a powerful speech in the Commons. Tory Remain MP Justine Greening made the claims after the prime minister used her latest statement to the House of Commons to criticise those wanting a second vote. Greening said that the fact MPs […]

Tory Brexiteer MP David Davies was ushered off a television set after the host said he was being ‘patronising’ to a female Labour MP. The Brexiteer appeared to be unwilling to discuss the harsh realities of a hard Brexit with Labour MP Anna Turley in an interview during the Kay Burley Show on Sky News. […]

Jeremy Corbyn is threatening to table a vote of no confidence in the prime minister unless she gets a date for the vote on her Brexit deal. A Labour source indicated the motion would be targeted at Theresa May personally, rather than the government. The move would be symbolic and would not force a change […]

Phillip Lee MP has used a television interview to attack both the prime minister and the Brexiteers in his party for their willful blindness to the mess that has unfolded. Asked on Sky News for his view on Brexiteer Michael Fabricant who appeared on the channel before him to claim that trade deals will open […]

Prominent Brexiteer and Tory MEP Daniel Hannan has said that he believes Brexit will ‘not happen at all’. Echoing the latest front page of The New European, Hannan wrote in the Daily Telegraph that ‘it’s over’. He said: ‘If Brexit happens at all – and for the first time I’m beginning to think it won’t […]

Since the satellite TV revolution, much of football has changed. But much hasn’t. This stunning photo essay chronicles a pivotal era and captures the game’s eternal appeal. Stuart Roy Clarke captures the appeal of football in Rangers. – Credit: Archant John Williams discusses the beauty of Stuart Roy Clarke’s photographs. I first met Stuart Clarke […]

Senior Conservatives – including Lord Heseltine, Dominic Grieve and David Willetts – have written to their party colleagues warning they risk ‘losing young people for good.’ The letter, co-ordinated by the two youth groups of the People’s Vote campaign – For our Future’s Sake (FFS) and Our Future, Our Choice – is a sign of […]

The prime minister has a knack of categorically ruling something out before the opposite happens. BELLA FRIMPONG says a People’s Vote is the only way forward. Looking at the front pages it’s clear there is now only one political issue that is making the running. As a way of distracting from her epic failure at […]

Theresa May is secretly taking advice from the former prime minister David Cameron on how to resolve the current Brexit crisis. Cameron, who is credited with causing Brexit by calling for an EU referendum and then promptly resigning as soon as the result was revealed, wants to make a return to fix the crisis for […]

Theresa May is to head to the Commons to make a speech attacking a People’s Vote – despite reports her own team is trying to win cross-party support for a final say vote to break the impasse. Theresa May will use an address in the House of Commons to say that another national poll on […]

CHARLIE CONNELLY on the life of the last president of Czechoslovakia Václav Havel was in a hurry in the early evening of March 21, 1990. He’d been president of Czechoslovakia for just under three months and this was the first full day of a state visit to Britain that was already behind schedule. After lunch […]

A new poll has found that voters will desert the Labour Party if it pushes through Brexit. A YouGov poll, commissioned by the People’s Vote campaign, has found that support for Jeremy Corbyn’s party could fall from 36% to 22% if they help the Tories pass a Brexit deal like the one that Theresa May […]