The UK has issued a warning to the EU over the future of Northern Ireland at the start of a pivotal week of talks between Brexit minister Lord David Frost and Maroš Šefčovič, vice president of the European Commission. Frost will tell the commission it will be making a “historic misjudgement” if it does not […]
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Downing Street has drawn up plans to try and isolate Scotland’s first minister during Cop26 in Glasgow amid fears Nicola Sturgeon will “steal the limelight” and exploit the event to further Scottish independence. Number 10 has been “wargaming to stop” Sturgeon “using Cop26 as [an] ‘advert’ for Scottish independence”, declares an exclusive in the Independent. […]
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Members of all major political parties on the island of Ireland have united to oppose Boris Johnson’s plans to “draw a line under the Troubles” by ending all prosecutions related to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Victims groups joined politicians from all sides to sign a document rejecting the UK government’s plans for a statue […]
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Dominic Raab’s tenure as foreign secretary is under increasing threat after it emerged he “nobbled” the prime minister into letting him stay in Crete despite being told by advisors to return and deal with the Afghan crisis. It has transpired that not only was the foreign secretary sunning himself on the Greek island, but the […]
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Staff shortages in the UK caused by Brexit has forced the partial closure of Nando’s with warnings from poultry producers that the serious lack of workers means many households may have to go without traditional turkeys for Christmas. The British Poultry Council’s (BPC) chief executive Richard Griffiths said it is still waiting for a reply […]
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Boris Johnson’s decision to go on holiday on Saturday, hours before the fall of Kabul, has been criticised as a “dereliction of duty” by a military commander who said the prime minister should “hang his head in shame”. Foreign secretary Dominic Raab also took his holiday at the same time as Johnson, and like the […]
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England’s so-called ‘Freedom Day’ is a threat to the world according to international health experts who are worried the country will become a petri-dish for new variants of coronavirus that will spread around the globe. Boris Johnson’s plan to lift almost all of the Covid restrictions in England on Monday (July 19) is alarming government […]
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Sir Richard Branson’s Unity 22 space tourism test flight has been delayed by weather conditions at New Mexico’s Spaceport America. Billionaire British celebrity-businessman Branson is now set to take off on-board Unity 22’s four minute space flight on Sunday at 14.30 GMT – 15 months after asking the UK government for a £500 million bail […]
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The murder trial of the only British soldier charged for Bloody Sunday has collapsed after prosecutors deemed key evidence in the form of military police statements was inadmissible. The unnamed former paratrooper referred to as Soldier F was charged with two murders and five attempted murders in Derry on Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972 when […]
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Wales is launching the UK’s first universal basic income (UBI) pilot scheme, first minister Mark Drakeford has announced. The policy will “see whether the promises that basic income hold out are genuinely delivered” for people, said Drakeford, confirming recipients will get a monthly stipend from the Welsh government. Jane Hutt, the newly appointed social justice […]
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