Theresa May’s perfect storm
Theresa May says there’s only 5% of the deal still to go. But that 5% is sorting out the Northern Ireland border. And she has to sort it out as patience amongst her backbenchers and cabinet is fraying.
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Theresa May says there’s only 5% of the deal still to go. But that 5% is sorting out the Northern Ireland border. And she has to sort it out as patience amongst her backbenchers and cabinet is fraying.
Theresa May has 30 minutes to outline her case to EU leaders tonight. She will not be coming with “new concrete proposals” as Donald Tusk requested.
Leo Varadkar has just told press he always thought talk of a deal now was a bit optimistic and said “November/December is probably the best opportunity for a deal.”
In a strange echo of when the DUP stalled Theresa May’s last attempt at a breakthrough in Brussels in December of last year, it sounds like the Northern Ireland party might have done the same thing all over again. UTV’s Ken Reid has been told by no less a source than the Prime Minister herself that…
A special Downing Street meeting on Brexit for Cabinet Ministers tomorrow. As talks reach a crucial phase, what does Theresa May want to tell them?
The main public spending watchdogs say the government is still cutting the money it gives to councils. And figures from the Treasury suggest real-terms reductions in councils’ overall spending power will continue until 2020.
The truth is that this moment was a necessary moment of challenge, but not a decisive one. Politics could all look very different in a few weeks’ time if Theresa May comes back with a deal from Brussels.
The Labour leadership decided it had to do a bit of a tactical shift in language to calm down very angry MPs from the North of England with pro-Brexit voting constituencies.
On flights, aides say, she occasionally relaxes with Sudoku puzzles. While some of her colleagues in the Tory Party come with broad approaches, ideologies in some cases, Theresa May doggedly works through the puzzle.
The real buzz amongst ministers and officials in the last couple of weeks has been talk of how a “no deal” might be avoided with a “deal lite”.
President Trump has lashed out at an independent study that concluded an estimated 2,975 people died in Puerto Rico in the five months after Hurricane Maria struck there last year.
Some of the points being raised by official Russian spokesmen are theories that have already been debunked.
The bosses of Facebook and Twitter have appeared in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Another digital giant, Google, was invited to attend, but declined.
Today’s forensic exposure of how GRU agents carried out the Salisbury poisoning is part of the Government’s attempt to hit back at the Russian state.
“Hors de question” was the phrase used by Michel Barnier yesterday when asked by MPs what his view was on the Single Market goods/services split proposed in the Chequers deal. “He couldn’t have been more emphatic,” one MP at the Brussels meeting said.