The newly elected speaker of the House of Commons has given Brexiteers the Christmas gift they’ve campaigned for by announcing he will allow Big Ben to bong on January 31. Sir Lyndsay Hoyle said he was “not going to stand in the way” of MPs who want the iconic bell to chime at 11pm on […]
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The government has been accused of “cynically timing” the announcement of the £4 billion sale of a UK defence and aerospace company to a US private equity firm “to avoid scrutiny”. The deal had been delayed over national security concerns but business secretary Andrea Leadsom released a statement just before 10pm on Friday night approving […]
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Boris Johnson has been warned his new Brexit bill may have “tragic consequences” for child refugees after the government scrapped a legal commitment to help them. The measure is one of several changes to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill being debated in the House of Commons today and has been slammed by charities and campaigners working […]
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The monarch returned to parliament for the second time in nine weeks to deliver what Boris Johnson claims is the “most radical” Queen’s Speech “in a generation”. Brexit, the NHS and terrorist sentencing – three key issues from the election campaign – dominated the speech which also laid out plans for constitutional reform and measures […]
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In an attempt to break the deadlock and end the political vacuum in Northern Ireland, Stormont talks resumed on Monday. Yesterday, new Northern Ireland MPs took their seats in the House of Commons with both the DUP and Sinn Fein giving way to middle-ground MPs from the Alliance Party and the SDLP. The Northern Ireland […]
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The pound has tumbled as fears of a no-deal Brexit resurfaced wiping out the gains made following Boris Johnson’s comprehensive election victory. Sterling plummeted more than 1.5% against both the dollar and euro after the prime minister announced an amendment to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB) outlawing any extension to the transition period beyond the […]
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MPs return to the Commons today (Monday) following the Conservative’s seismic election victory with a number of the country’s key institutions in the new government’s firing line for reform or facing the scrap altogether. While Boris Johnson will welcome 109 new Tory MPs, the prime minister is set to make the most of his 80 […]
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Following the Conservative Party’s landslide victory, Boris Johnson today (14/12/19) embarked on a tour of northern constituencies. Promising to “repay your trust”, Johnson said that his government would “spread opportunity across the whole of the United Kingdom”. Johnson paid tribute to voters in a number of traditionally Labour constituencies which had returned a Conservative MP. […]
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Boris Johnson’s stunning election win has left the money markets “cock-a-hoop” with sterling surging and the FTSE 250 hitting record highs. The pound rose 2.1% to hit $1.34 against the dollar and €1.20 against the euro – levels not seen since 2016 – as the extent of the Conservative election win became evident. Jeremy Corbyn’s […]
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The UK election results may be surprising to many, but for the Conservative party, it proves that gambling on Boris has paid off. The clarity of his slogan as well as his people skills and smart social media use have earned him the Conservative majority he set out to achieve. Despite his often insensitive and […]
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