10.16am EST10:16 Corbyn has finished. Ken Clarke, the Tory pro-European and former chancellor, goes next. He always gets called in this slot as father of the House (the longest serving MPs). Facebook Twitter 10.14am EST10:14 Corbyn says Labou...
We’re making initial decisions on issues such as medicine, medical devices and clinical consumables stockpiling, emergency transportation, support for supply chains, diversion of local produce and a host of other issues. All of this activity has bec...
Planning for a no-deal Brexit is expected to be ramped up this week with up to £2bn to be allocated to government departments after the cabinet signs off on the contingency plans at its weekly meeting on Tuesday. Theresa May wants the increasingly s...
Theresa May is running away from the scrutiny of a head to head debate with Jeremy Corbyn, as she did in the 2017 general election campaign. When Number Ten told the media she wanted a head to head debate on her botched Brexit deal, Jeremy Corbyn im...
Boris Johnson called on Theresa May to “junk the backstop” in a barnstorming speech at the Democratic Unionist party conference. The former foreign secretaryJohnson told the party’s conference in Belfast on Saturday that the backstop, a measure inte...
Channelling the spirit of Monty Python, Father Ted and Oscar Wilde, the voice trolls the Brexit process with a tone that is whimsical, sometimes surreal and always pointed. “I dislike Brexit but, speaking as a border, I do admire its ability to comp...
It is barely 47 years old, not quite the size of Scotland, and buys nearly £250bn of British-made weapons in a good year. But, despite the long and often strong ties between the UK and the United Arab Emirates, the life sentence given this week to M...
The British government is to invest £50m in an attempt to end female genital mutilation by 2030, claiming it is the single biggest investment to tackle the issue by an international donor. The money, announced on Friday, will go to grassroots progra...
Theresa May’s attempts to get her Brexit deal through cabinet this week are facing another hurdle after the leading Tory Brexiter Andrea Leadsom said she was “sticking in government” to make sure the UK did not end up trapped in a customs arrangemen...
Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal would be rejected in the House of Commons, the Democratic Unionist party’s Brexit spokesman has said, after his party reacted angrily to a letter from the prime minister detailing her plans. Sammy Wilson said sugge...
Theresa May and the Belgian prime minister, Charles Michel, have laid wreaths at the graves of the first and last British soldiers to be killed during the first world war, at the start of a weekend of commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the a...
EU leaders have scrapped plans to discuss and publish a draft declaration this week on the bloc’s future trade deal with the UK after the derailment of the talks over the Irish border, in a blow to Theresa May. An outline of an agreement was due to...
Theresa May’s top military adviser has asked for Germany’s head of state to be invited to attend this year’s Remembrance Day commemorations at the Cenotaph in London, a memo photographed in Downing Street reveals. The German president, Frank-Walter...
The author of a new plan for Brexit backed by senior pro-leave Conservatives has urged the government to abandon the Chequers proposal, saying it would leave a post-departure UK unable to benefit economically from its new place in the world. Shanke...
Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, has implied that the British government was overwhelmed by the hurricanes in the Caribbean last summer, by announcing plans to strengthen the UK response, supplying better equipped ships, a regional co-ordinatio...