Gary Gibbon
EU summit – Barnier calls for calm
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.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Theresa May summons Ministers for special Brexit meeting
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?
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Brexit clashes on day one of Tory Party conference
It’s day one of the Conservative Party conference and the Prime Minister is calling on her party to unite for Brexit but that hasn’t stopped Boris Johnson calling her Chequers plan ‘deranged’. We’re in Birmingham to speak to former Home Secretary Amber Rudd about her party’s Brexit worries.
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Brexit explained: what happens when the UK leaves the EU?
From hard Brexit and hard borders, to soft Brexit or the Chequers deal – here’s everything you need to know.
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Edinburgh Fringe gets political, as Theresa May meets Nicola Sturgeon to discuss Brexit ‘plan B’
Theresa May meets Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, in Edinburgh.
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Donald Trump UK visit: from criticism to compliments in 24 hours
The President’s visit started amid controversy after his Sun newspaper interview blasting Theresa May, the London mayor Sadiq Khan – and claiming immigration meant Europe was “losing its culture.” Later came the apology, of sorts: Mr Trump stood side by side with the Prime Minister lavishing praise on her, saying “she’s a terrific woman, she’s doing a…
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What is Brexit? Government sets out most detailed plan
Almost a week after Theresa May’s showdown at Chequers that led to David Davis, Boris Johnson and various others you probably haven’t heard of quitting, the Government’s Brexit White Paper has been revealed, detailing Britain’s negotiating position for life after we leave the EU. Theresa May declared it “absolutely delivers on the Brexit we…
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Soft-Brexit sceptic
We speak to the Eurosceptic Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who’s not very happy with the deal Theresa May has got past her Cabinet. Even Boris Johnson agreed to it, after some apparently colourful language at Friday’s Chequers talks.
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Plane speaking: what have Johnson, May and Cameron said about Heathrow expansion?
Mr Johnson said he’d ‘lie down in front of those bulldozers’ to stop a third runway.
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FactCheck: The NHS funding boost is not a Brexit dividend
Theresa May says the extra cash she’s promised for the NHS comes from a Brexit dividend. FactCheck investigates.
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FactCheck: What happened to Brexit in Parliament yesterday?
Mrs May was forced into some embarrassing climb-downs that could come back to haunt her.
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Gary Gibbon
Tempers fraying over Brexit meeting summary
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.
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Gary Gibbon
Government at ‘serious risk of three to four defeats’ in upcoming Brexit votes, Tory MP says
“The next 10 days are going to be tempestuous,” one Conservative MP said. He was talking about the attempt to overturn all the Lords’ amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill on Tuesday next week. One of those defeats might not necessarily be on the substance of Brexit, but on the time allowed for debate (the first vote…
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Grenfell inquiry: Theresa May backs down over calls for more experts
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.
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Grandmother, child of the Windrush, told she can’t stay in UK
The new Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, says he’s rejecting the “hostile environment” policy on immigration, but that isn’t much comfort to those who are already caught up in its net. We’ve been following the case of one 64-year-old grandmother who came here from Jamaica – from her nine-month detention in Yarl’s Wood, to her reunion with her family after her release. And she’s still being told she can’t stay.
