Gary Gibbon
What’s Theresa May taking to Brussels?
Theresa May has gone with some kind of sweetener on EU citizens’ rights which she hopes will break the impasse.
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May says Brexit ‘no deal’ remains on table
Tomorrow Theresa May sets off for her second trip in a week to Brussels, where she will address EU leaders on Brexit. In the Commons today she insisted the option of walking away without a deal must remain on the table. But her visit comes as her government’s EU withdrawal bill, which transfers EU legislation…
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Davis urges Brexit trade talks
Brexit Secretary David Davis has told MPs that the UK is reaching the limits of “what we can achieve” without beginning talks about trade. And he urged EU leaders to give his counterpart Michel Barnier the green light to do so at this week’s EU summit. This followed Theresa May’s EU dinner last night, after…
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Gary Gibbon
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FactCheck: is Theresa May telling the whole story about Labour’s time in office?
The Prime Minister said that under Labour, 1.4 million people spent most of the last decade on out-of-work benefits. But she didn’t mention that many of those people were on disability or illness benefits.
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Limited energy cap to be introduced
A new cap will be imposed on energy bills, at least for some households. The regulator, Ofgem, today said it would introduce the limit for one million vulnerable customers. But it won’t come in until next February and it’s still a far cry from the cap on all standard variable tariff bills, promised by the…
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Racial disparity audit published by government
When Theresa May became PM she pledged to tackle the “burning injustices” in society and demanded that public services “explain or change” racial inequality. Fifteen months on we have her racial disparity audit showing, among many things, that black Caribbean children, for example, are three times more likely to be excluded from school than white…
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Political ping pong in Brexit negotiations
Theresa May has told MPs that the government is preparing for every eventuality in the Brexit negotiations. She published two white papers this afternoon on new customs and trade arrangements that would allow Britain to operate as an “independent trading nation”. But as British and European officials start another round of negotiations in Brussels, both…
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FactCheck: Theresa May’s claim about housing doesn’t give the full picture
Theresa May spoke about house building at the Conservative conference. But the figures she used don’t give the full picture.
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Gary Gibbon
Theresa May’s speech: a ‘horrible experience’ in the name of duty
“What a psycho drama, really sphincter-tightening,” was how one senior Tory put it to me at the end of Theresa May’s speech.
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Gary Gibbon
May’s EU transition plan quite a pill for some voters to swallow
Theresa May has spelt out that Britain is formally requesting a status quo transition period of around two years and is willing to pay for that. It will mean just about nothing will change in terms of relations with the EU until five years after the referendum. That’s quite a pill for some voters to…
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May holds marathon cabinet meeting ahead of Brexit speech
The Prime Minister briefed her cabinet today on how she hopes to break the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations.
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Gary Gibbon
Can Theresa May’s speech break the Brexit impasse?
There’s more than a little concern in No. 10 that Boris Johnson’s intervention in The Telegraph last week has rather raised expectations for Theresa May’s speech.
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Gary Gibbon
What is Boris up to?
Boris Johnson’s Telegraph article is clearly the speech he had hoped to give about now but was told by a No 10 emissary he should not. Instead he has burst on to the scene in print, albeit unhelpfully behind a paywall and on a day when the threat level has been raised and eyes are…
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Theresa May’s misleading claims about police pay
Are police officers really better off now than in 2010? FactCheck investigates.
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Johnson challenged on UK hurricane response
We report from Anguilla as Boris Johnson defends the government’s hurricane relief effort, saying it was “extremely fast” as he arrived on the island of Anguilla to see the aid operation in action.
