Can Britain still slam the brakes on Brexit?
Could Article 50 be revoked unilaterally by the UK government without having to ask for the EU’s permission?
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The Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in New York to sell his vision of post-Brexit Britain to world leaders as they gather at the United Nations.
We’ll find out early next week whether the Supreme Court believes that Boris Johnson broke the law and misled the Queen when he advised her to suspend Parliament for five weeks. The prime minister could be at the United Nations in New York when the justices rule on his actions. The extraordinary case ended today…
Amid what is now a full-blown constitutional crisis, all eyes will be on the Supreme Court next week, when the country’s top judges will decide whether Scotland’s Court of Session was correct in ruling that the Prime Minister acted in an “improper” and “unlawful” way in suspending parliament for five weeks. Opposition MPs leapt on…
There are just two months to go before we’re due to leave.
Pro-choice demonstrators have held a National Day of Action across America to protest against the growing number of States which are passing laws to restrict women’s access to abortion clinics.
Senators in the US state of Alabama are voting on a bill which would outlaw almost all abortions in any stage of pregnancy.
Rafiki is a love story the Kenyan government didn’t want its people to see.
One of the films shortlisted for an award at this year’s BAFTAs – and Oscars – is the documentary RBG.
Five refugee families, marooned on a British military base in Cyprus for the past 20 years, will finally been allowed to resettle in the UK, Channel 4 News has learned.
Could Article 50 be revoked unilaterally by the UK government without having to ask for the EU’s permission?
After a flurry of last-minute negotiations, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court following a late call from Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona for a one-week investigation into sexual assault allegations against President Trump’s nominee. It comes after emotional testimony from Dr Christine Blasey Ford, who says she was assaulted…
Our guest this week is Gina Miller, the lead claimant in a successful legal battle ensuring that parliament had the final say over triggering Article 50. She’s seen as a defender of the constitution by some, and an “enemy of the people” by others.
Relatives of people in a permanent vegetative state will no longer have to seek legal permission to end their care, the Supreme Court has ruled. When families and doctors agree it’s in the best interests of the patient, medical staff will be able to remove feeding tubes without applying to the Court of Protection. The…
The Israeli parliament has approved a highly controversial law to define the country as a Jewish nation state – and remove Arabic as an official language. Critics called it an “evil law” which turned Arabs and other minorities into second class citizens. It’s likely to face a challenge at the Supreme Court, but Israel’s prime…
Some of those close to David Davis who were urging him to resign over the new direction of Brexit policy were in no doubt what they thought the point of such a resignation would be. “She’s got to go,” one of them told me last week. The same Davis ally thought the hard line Brexiteers…