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Gary Gibbon
“We are on a cliff edge, leaning right forward, losing our centre of gravity and about to fall into the abyss of 20 years in the wilderness. I can’t see anyway round it. We are inviting Jeremy Corbyn to form a government.” One former minister, this morning, on the state of the Conservative Party. The…
Gary Gibbon
In searing heat on the lawns of Chequers, Donald Trump laid it on with a trowel to Theresa May. We are becoming used to the sequence of offence given greatly, accusations that he’s been misunderstood and then proclamations that he reveres the individual in question. We got an Olympic class display of those skills today…
Gary Gibbon
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…
Jackie Long
Today the National Audit Office released a report heavily critical of the Government’s flagship benefit programme Universal Credit – saying it is failing to deliver financial savings or employment benefits, all the while leaving some vulnerable benefit claimants struggling to make ends meet. This is a damning report but mostly because it’s on the back…
Dominic Grieve’s team thinks there’s a compromise amendment they can live with. It was brokered into the night by Oliver Letwin and is now being poured over by DEXEU (the David Davis team) and by the ERG. Yesterday saw some amazing flurries of speculation and briefing. One particularly surprised Remainers as reports flew around that…
President Trump has claimed that Iran is the world’s “leading state sponsor of terror”. But is that fair? Before he became president, Trump said the “world’s biggest funder of terrorism” was Saudi Arabia – not Iran. So is his latest claim is just political rhetoric?
According to previously unseen documents obtained by Channel 4 News, Cambridge Analytica was pitching its “unique” social media data and “psychographic profiling” to multiple Republican election campaigns in the US after harvesting the profiles of up to 87 million mostly American Facebook users.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May has gone to the top end of the diplomatic lexicon to condemn the attack on a Russian spy and his daughter. The Prime Minister said it constituted an “unlawful use of force” and “more extensive measures” would follow. The Russian government has been given until tomorrow night to explain how a nerve agent…
Gary Gibbon
Those around Theresa May are now hopeful that they can kick the draft treaty down the tracks just as they did the original Joint Report on Article 50.
Gary Gibbon
A pro-Remain campaign bus mocking the Brexit slogan from the referendum struggled through back lanes of Westminster for a photo op this morning. Wedged between cars as the bus driver executed a 50 point turn, one campaigner on the bus said: “Oh no, this is going to be the story.” In front, a waiting firing squad of cameras suggested that might be on the money.
Gary Gibbon
So what is it that Cabinet Ministers are going to be asked to sign up to this week on Brexit?
Jeremy Corbyn said a Labour government would “immediately purchase 8,000 properties across the country” to house homeless people. The policy has been effective in other countries, but Labour’s numbers are less convincing.
Gary Gibbon
The sun’s been out all day in Beijing and today you’ve actually been able to see it. Theresa May is having tea with President Xi. A personality cult leader with unchallenged power meets a leader who has lost her majority, her top aides, her deputy, her ability to reshuffle and much more besides in one…
Gary Gibbon
In China they boast that their system allows their leaders to think in terms of decades. Their newly arrived guest of honour, Mrs May, is lucky to plan 24 hours in advance. On the long flight over to China, Mrs May’s team were asked if the PM had internet contact to keep her in touch…
Could Theresa May be on her way out of Number 10? FactCheck takes a look at what could happen next.