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Gary Gibbon
The former Director of Vote Leave Dominic Cummings has tonight broken a period of silence to call Theresa May’s strategy on Brexit “botched ” and “stupid” . For good measure Mr Cummings sprays his customary political machine gun around some fellow Brexiteers too. He reserves his greatest ire for Mrs May, Philip Hammond and senior officials Olly Robbins…
The Prime Minister has agreed to two experts sitting with Judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick for phase two of the investigation into the Grenfell Tower disaster. She had previously rejected calls for additional panel members.
The improbable juxtaposition of Commonwealth heads of government, 12 of them from the Caribbean, being in London on the very day that this vast controversy erupted, has deepened the scale of the row.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May is pushing back against the relatively new convention that governments should always ask Parliament before military action. Jeremy Corbyn wants to go further and make that convention a law.
The Government has already published the detailed legal advice justifying the airstrikes on Syria. This after the Prime Minister defended going ahead without seeking Parliament’s backing. Mrs May held telephone talks with Presidents Trump and Macron this afternoon – with all three leaders hailing the joint bombing campaign as a “success”. A warning, there are some…
As Theresa May weighs up whether to join any possible western military action against Syria, the British public don’t seem to be rallying behind the idea. Latest polls show just 22% of people would support a missile strike. But what about those who’ve experienced life under the Assad government and others with past experience of…
Gary Gibbon
An interesting session from Theresa May at the Liaison Committee this afternoon. Now that’s not a sentence you see very often. Mrs May said there will be additional spending coming for the NHS and you won’t have to wait until the end of the Spending Review next year to hear about it. Mrs May wasn’t asked…
Gary Gibbon
It is now clear that the Brexit Transition deal will be agreed at the European Council on Friday morning. The EU27 judge that sufficient parts of their draft legal text, their attempt to codify what was shaken on in December, are now agreed on.
The war of words between the UK and Russia has escalated as the Prime Minister has been here in Salisbury to see for herself the aftermath of what the UK, France, Germany and the US say is the ‘first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since World War 2’. The Russians described her…
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…
“Friction is an inevitable side-effect of Brexit” said the European Council president Donald Tusk today. As Theresa May convened the cabinet to approve her Brexit plans ahead of a speech tomorrow, Mr Tusk seemed in no mood to accept the Prime Minister’s assertion that the UK could reach a deal that will allow trade to be…
Gary Gibbon
As Theresa May got Cabinet sign off for the “serious” and “ambitious” Brexit policy she’ll set out in her speech tomorrow, EU leaders have warned that her own red lines mean Britain is closing the door on itself.
Theresa May says she wants a “deep and special” partnership with Europe after Brexit to make sure the UK and EU continue to work together on security and defence issues. But as more evidence emerges of Russia’s complex cyber interference in the 2016 U.S. election, what kind of new security arrangements will Britain have to…
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May hopes she’s neutralised the row over Steve Baker’s attacks on the civil service. But that’s a proxy battle for the bigger row over direction of government policy on Brexit phase two. Which way is Theresa May going on that? This morning there were reports swirling that the government was seriously considering staying in something…
Theresa May was treated to an elaborate tea ceremony by China’s President Xi on the second day of her trip to China. The two leaders held talks about trade, the environment and North Korea. Theresa May said Britain and China were both outward looking countries who could work together. She has now taken her delegation of business…