Gary Gibbon
Top No. 10 aide pushing for no indyref2 till after 2021
There’s a debate, not completely resolved, over just how hard No. 10 should push back the SNP on their chosen date for a second independence referendum.
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FactCheck Q&A: could tactical voting lead to a progressive majority?
Gina Miller, the pro-EU campaigner, has launched the “biggest tactical voting drive ever,” raising nearly £300,000 to support parliamentary candidates from different parties who want to stop “Extreme Brexit”. But could tactical voting really make a difference to the election on 8 June? Is there any chance we could end up with a “progressive alliance” of…
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Interview with Kezia Dugdale and Derek Mackay
With me now are Kezia Dugdale, leader of the Scottish Labour party and the SNP’s Derek Mackay who is Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Constitution.
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Scottish independence referendum take 2?
Theresa May hit back at Nicola Sturgeon and told her that another referendum on Scottish independence was off the cards…indefinitely. The SNP called it a democratic outrage! May v Sturgeon: the gloves are off but what next?
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Gary Gibbon
Indyref2: match postponed?
Ruth Davidson and David Mundell spelled out what Theresa May stated a little more opaquely: no referendum this side of Brexit. Forget it.
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Gary Gibbon
Sturgeon calls for indy vote 2018/19
Nicola Sturgeon has pressed the button. Scotland’s First Minister wants a second independence referendum potentially as early as next Autumn.
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Gary Gibbon
Bercow: I won’t consent to Trump parliamentary address
The Speaker let rip at the President for “racism” and said he would withhold consent.
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Gary Gibbon
Commons passes Brexit Trigger Bill
Something very big has started and the chances of it being stopped are about nil. The chances of it being substantially refined from the Theresa May plan in any way that Remain supporters would like looks pretty remote too.
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Trump debate: Mhari Black and Mark Burns
One of the MPs taking part in tonight’s demonstration, Mhari Black from the SNP, and Mark Burns, a evangelical pastor who has been vocal in his support of Trump in the past.
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FactCheck Q&A: What does Theresa May’s Brexit statement mean for the UK?
The headline is that we will be pulling out of the EU’s Single Market and will not remain a full member of the Customs Union either.
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Gary Gibbon
Supreme Court Brexit hearing under way
The eleven justices of the Supreme Court have had their first ever morning sitting as 11. Outside, demonstrators from pro and anti-EU campaigns had parked buses with demonstrators on board in front of the court building on Parliament Square.
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Gary Gibbon
Heathrow: a political odyssey as parties shift position
Brexit changed the dynamics of this argument for some ministers. You have to look mad keen for business opportunities, you can’t afford to play into a narrative that Britain is turning inwards.
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Factcheck Q&A: dental tests for child migrants
Should we test the teeth of asylum seekers who claim to be children? How many “child” refugees are lying about their age?
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Gary Gibbon
Nicola Sturgeon: border checks ‘lack all credibility’
Nicola Sturgeon feels that Theresa May has gifted her a priceless argument for the second Scottish independence referendum whenever it comes.
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Gary Gibbon
Does hard Brexit equal Scottish Independence?
There would be a draft second independence bill published on Monday and she would make preparations so Scotland could call a referendum before Britain leaves the EU in 2019.
