It’s hard to see how we could get out of paying up – even if there’s no deal.
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…
The backstop stops here. Or at least at the end of 2021. Or at least that’s the expectation – after ministers spent the morning in talks about the future of the Irish border. Rumours were flying around all morning that the Brexit secretary David Davis might resign unless the customs arrangement had a clear time limit. But Downing Street…
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May has sent her Brexit sub-Committee ministers a summary of what they agreed at their last meeting last month. Problem is, a few of those Cabinet ministers don’t think this note does summarise the position agreed at Cabinet.
Parliament’s back after the summer and the Brexit bill is on its way through Parliament. Here are four things you need to know.
The latest round of Brexit negotiations have ended with tough talk and signs of irritation on both sides. Europe’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said there had been “no decisive progress” on any of the key issues. David Davis criticised the EU for being neither imaginative nor flexible.
Gary Gibbon
Money is at the heart of the “stressful” Brexit negotiations in Brussels. But if the talks are going to progress one side will have to blink.
The European Union’s chief negotiator said today that there are “fundamental differences” between the bloc and the United Kingdom. The second round of Brexit talks concluded with arguments over the divorce settlement with Michel Barnier warning “accounts must be settled”. But Brexit Secretary David Davis was more upbeat.
Brexit Secretary David Davis has insisted it’s time to “get down to work” as Britain began the second round of negotiations in Brussels. But he only stayed at the talks for a couple of hours, without apparently taking any notes. Theresa May is to warn ministers to stop leaking the contents of Cabinet discussions, after…
The two men leading the Brexit negotiations have exchanged gifts and say they’ve made an encouraging start on the business of extricating Britain from the European Union. The Brexit Secretary, David Davis, and the EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, held a full day of talks in Brussels – focusing first on the issues of the…
Brexit Secretary David Davis dismisses claims that the Prime Minister is too scared to attend a live TV debate with Jeremy Corbyn and other party leaders
One MP’s proposal to stop it being a criminal offence if you don’t pay your TV licence could have worrying implications for the BBC.
Dominic Grieve tells David Davis in House of Commons he is looking into whether his Parliamentary Answer on CPS libel settlements was accurate.
People behave better when they’re being watched. But will fitting all UK police officers with tiny head cameras really improve trust in policing?
Friends of Plebgate MP Andrew Mitchell are piling the pressure on Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe. Was he the source of leaks to journalists over the scandal?