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Watch the key speeches from the Brexit debate below. We are live streaming the debates every day on our YouTube channel. Each link here will take you to the start of the key speeches. The list is collated by order of appearance.
A British PhD student who was jailed for life in the United Arab Emirates on spying charges has been released after being granted a pardon. The UAE insisted Matthew Hedges had admitted being a member of MI6. His wife said she was absolutely elated, while the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he’d never been shown…
Has the UK Government put its economic interests in the United Arab Emirates above the rights and welfare of Matthew Hedges, the British academic jailed for spying there yesterday?
Gary Gibbon
Cabinet saw “sharp” exchanges on Brexit, according to one who was around the table. Ministers who really don’t like the emerging outline of a deal made forceful arguments against it. They included born again Brexiteers, Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid. But the pithiest attack sounds like it came from the Attorney General Geoffrey Cox. In what…
President Trump says the United States is looking into the disappearance of a Saudi journalist, who is feared to have been murdered. Jamal Khashoggi – who’s written for the Washington Post – vanished a week ago after he went into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Gary Gibbon
EU officials were braced for some EU bashing at this week’s Tory Conference. Jeremy Hunt certainly delivered that. The born again Leaver compared the EU to the old Soviet bloc countries that built walls to keep their people in. It’s hard to imagine a line of argument that could be more guaranteed to offend many EU…
Theresa May took her cabinet on an away day to the north-east this morning – to Gateshead – billed as showing the government’s commitment to regional development. Mrs May wasn’t giving much away when she was asked about the chances of a no deal Brexit, although her Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, on a visit to…
400 White Helmet volunteers and their families have been evacuated from southwest Syria to Jordan via Israel to await new lives in the USA and Europe. Praised today for their “selfless work” by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, they were deemed in need of “immediate protection”. Some are expected to be resettled in the UK.
Gary Gibbon
Don’t expect all the damage on tax rises to fund the NHS in the Budget this Autumn. Philip Hammond is not planning to spell out the full tax bill for Theresa May’s generosity in one sweep. Government sources say that all taxes are on the table for consideration. Mr Hammond faced a not so subtle…
Theresa May says the extra cash she’s promised for the NHS comes from a Brexit dividend. FactCheck investigates.
From banning sweets and chocolate from supermarkets, to stopping two-for-one deals on junk food, the Government is reportedly planning new measures to tackle child obesity. The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt could also impose a 9pm watershed on televison adverts for foods high in sugar and salt. But would any of these moves deter children from…
Around 450,000 women patients in England didn’t undergo a final, routine breast cancer screening because of NHS technical errors. These errors were IT issues which meant the women weren’t sent an invitation for a breast scan. The failings started in 2009 but were only discovered this January. And it’s now thought that up to 270…
Over the last decade the number of students in higher education has risen fast. But the number taking their own lives has risen faster. It’s nearly doubled in ten years, in England and Wales. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants universities to offer students more support. But what can they do?
Donald Trump has triggered a new spat with the British government after he turned to Twitter to vent his fury, this time about the state of the NHS. Early this morning, Mr Trump tweeted that thousands of people had been demonstrating in the UK because the National Health Service was, he said, “broke and not…
Gary Gibbon
Well it wasn’t really worth the drum roll build-up. As reshuffles go this has not been transformatory. There’s more still to come tomorrow with middle and junior ranks outside the Cabinet, but Theresa may has not felt able to shift big irritants from senior jobs and, as I write, has yet to announce any Cabinet sackings.…