What was significant about the Brady amendment passed two weeks ago is that it managed to unite the Conservative party behind a Brexit proposition. Only eight Tories voted against. But managing to come up with a Brexit stance acceptable to remainers...
The security minister, Ben Wallace, has said he would not put officials’ lives at risk to rescue UK citizens who went to Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State, insisting “actions have consequences”. “I’m not putting at risk British people’s lives to...
During Amsterdam’s chaotic rush hour, nine-year-old Lotta Crok cycles to a very busy junction. “Look,” she says. “There’s traffic coming from everywhere. Four trams from four different directions. For a child on a bike that’s really confusing!” Lott...
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...
Main image: Rightwing populist parties are now attracting women. Composite: The Guardian Design Team It was a chastening lesson for any woman tempted to join the cut and thrust of rightwing populism. After Corinna Miazga was elected to the German pa...
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...
Philip Hammond is facing a £12bn hole in the public finances this year after changes to the way student loans are treated on the government’s books, reflecting that many will never be repaid. In a stroke of the pen from the Office for National Stati...
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...
Despite a backdrop of riots against high fuel levies in France, European commission data shows that taxes on all petrol products have actually fallen in the last two years across the eurozone. The level has fallen from almost 70% of the cost for con...
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...
Theresa May has given way to Madrid’s demands over the future of Gibraltar after the Spanish prime minister threatened to “veto” the Brexit deal due to be signed off by EU leaders on Sunday. On the eve of Sunday’s special Brexit summit, the British...
At the Ryuwon shoe factory in Pyongyang, Adidas trainers gleam on a stand beside the production line, a personal gift from dictator Kim Jong-un to inspire workers churning out imitations for the North Korean faithful. “The Great Marshall sent shoes...
In rare footage of the North Korean capital, the Guardian gained an insight into what daily life is like for its citizens. Escorted by government minders at all times we were invited to visit a nursery, zoo, swimming pool, funfair, parks, factories,...
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...