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The Prime Minister has promised a “bold offer” to MPs in a final bid to get her Brexit deal through parliament, but we’re yet to hear the detail of what that could possibly entail. Lib Dem leader Vince Cable says if it means she’s now going to offer the country a confirmatory referendum on her…
Anna Soubry, who resigned from the Conservative party today, is joined by Sir Bill Cash, Conservative chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee, Sir Vince Cable, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, and the former Labour MP Ann Coffey, who has joined the Independent Group.
The government’s attempt to sell its Brexit deal today was more stick than carrot, with warnings that ports could be disrupted for up to six months and traffic flows across the Channel could drop to just 13 per cent, if the UK leaves without a Brexit deal.
The Kremlin has denounced what it called “western meddling” in an election, after Britain and the United States urged the international police agency Interpol not to elect a former Russian interior ministry official as its new chief. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said that if Alexander Prokopchuk was appointed, it would be like turning Interpol into…
President Trump describes them as “the enemy of the people” and purveyors of “fake news”. The US media, particularly TV News, has become central to the story in this presidency. Cable news channels broadcast round-the-clock coverage of politics, much of it partisan. Trump supporters flock to Fox News. Liberals tend to watch MSNBC and its…
The Liberal Democrats have voted to back the idea of cancelling Brexit if there’s no deal by March next year.
Cynical, repellent, despicable – just some of the words used today by a judge to sum up a share fraud that cost investors millions of pounds.
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?
By midnight tonight, every employer with more than 250 staff will have published information on how much men and women in their organisations get paid. Or at least, that’s what the law requires. The firms that have published data so far reveal that 78 per cent pay men more than women, while 13 per cent…
Gary Gibbon
As the European Council meets in Brussels, yet again the Brexit issue is shoved to the moment chairs scrape and attention drifts at the dog end of the evening. Mrs May will have her say – the transition deal is in both our interests, the guidelines for negotiations on the future relationship are welcomed –…
President Trump said that – when the UK reaches a conclusion about the attack on Sergei Skripal – he would “certainly take that finding as fact”. He promised to “condemn Russia or whoever it may be” who’s responsible. But now that Theresa May has said Russia was “culpable for the attempted murder,” has Trump stuck to his word?
A teenager has been sentenced to ten and a half years in jail after a series of acid attacks against moped riders in London in July last year. The judge described Derryck John’s actions as “despicable and cowardly”.
There have been calls for new laws to tackle online abuse. But legislation already rules against everything from threats to harassment and grossly offensive messages. So is the problem in policing, rather than the law?
She’s a singer-songwriter with three Grammys to her name and an activist with an impeccable pedigree. Matt Frei speaks to Angelique Kidjo – ‘Africa’s premier diva’.
A Channel 4 News investigation can reveal how Amazon’s algorithm can guide users to the chemical combinations for producing explosives.