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Conservative hard Brexiteers have released proposals which they believe could allow the UK to leave the EU's single market and customs union without the need for a hard border in Ireland. The European Research Group of Tory backbenchers led by Jacob Rees-Mogg believe the Government has allowed the border question to become a roadblock to achieving a Canada-style Free Trade Agreement with the EU.
Donald Trump's explosive Brexit intervention has received a markedly different response from Leavers to Barack Obama's dalliance in the debate. In the months before the referendum, the then US president faced an angry backlash when he warned that Britain would be at "the back of the queue" for American trade deals if it quit the EU.
Prime Minister Theresa May's chaos-stricken U.K. government risks slowly suffocating investments for car manufacturers desperate for clarity post-Brexit from a party that calls itself pro-business. That's the stark assessment of Mike Hawes, chief executive officer of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, who took a jab at May's widely-debunked promise that there will be extra money to spend from the contributions that Britain stops making to the European Union budget when it leaves the bloc on March 29, 2019.
In a joint letter to the Times , the former MPs say that their introduction would prevent a crisis like the Windrush scandal . Meanwhile, former Conservative Home Secretary, Ken Clarke, told BBC Radio 4's World At One programme that it was "impossible" to control illegal migration without an identity card system.
British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a former banker of South Asian origin as interior minister on Monday, trying to draw a line under an immigration scandal threatening her authority as she negotiates Brexit. Sajid Javid, the son of immigrants from Pakistan, replaces Amber Rudd, who quit as Home Secretary after acknowledging she had "inadvertently misled" parliament by denying the government had targets for the number of illegal migrants Britain deports.
Amber Rudd has faced repeated calls to resign amid claims that her department is "out of control" for using removal targets for illegal immigrants. The Home Secretary said she never agreed to use removal targets for migrants, adding that those used by her department "were not published targets against which performance was assessed".
But in a well-ordered democratic system, those who fight on behalf of competing parties, interests and ideas can usually find some room for mutual esteem and even occasionally try to profit intellectually from each other. It's when politics becomes unhinged that we squander the gift of social learning through reasoned argument.
The SDP's founding 'Gang of Four', Bill Rodgers, Dr David Owen, Roy Jenkins and Shirley Williams, in Perth It's a story which has had more comebacks than Kylie Minogue. It's the old new centrist party ruse.
The 'asset strippers' set to buy British engineering giant GKN could be forced to sign legal agreements promising not to sell its crucial aerospace division, it emerged last night. Melrose narrowly won approval for its controversial A 8billion takeover on Thursday, but the deal is being closely scrutinised by defence chiefs.
The European Union will publish a draft Brexit withdrawal treaty on Wednesday and it's set to be explosive : it will ignore Theresa May's recent requests about the transition and risks prompting a domestic crisis over the sensitive issue of the Irish border. The agreements reached in December to move Brexit talks along to trade have now been written into legal text, Tim Ross and Ian Wishart report.
London: The fire burned for hours, ripping through a 24-story apartment block, in one of London's richest boroughs. Video footage showed desperate residents banging on windows and begging for help.
Are the state institutions joining politicians to thwart the will of the people on both sides of the Atlantic, asks Brian Monteith. Only a year ago Theresa May and Donald Trump had set out their intentions about how "Brexit means Brexit" and how to "Make America great again".
There is only one word required to sum up the agreement announced between the UK government and the European Union and it is to describe it as a "sham", for it is designed to do one thing only and that is to keep Theresa May as Prime Minister, for now. This suits not just Theresa May and most of her Conservative colleagues but the EU - for it leaves them all to fight another day.
It is always satisfying to prove your doubters wrong and, in the case of Jeremy Corbyn , the left-wing leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, there were an awful lot of them. Written off as a hapless loser 12 months ago at his last party conference, Mr. Corbyn can expect a triumphant reception at this year's event , which was to begin on Sunday.
We [Australians and Britons] can talk to each other as we can with no one else, but you can't revert to a world that's now disappeared. To hear Boris Johnson, current Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, is to be subjected to the capsuled calls of another kingdom.
Conservative lawmakers plotting to replace Theresa May must stop being so "self-indulgent" and focus on governing Britain, Brexit Secretary David Davis said on Sunday, amid reports of secret moves to oust the prime minister. Davis said it would be catastrophic to hold a leadership contest now, just as he's trying to negotiate the terms of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
Sorry, Justin Trudeau. DA solA , Emmanuel Macron. You've been replaced as the West's sexiest politicians by a socks-and-sandals retread from the seventies whose young fans never experienced that decade's failed Labour policies, the same ones Jeremy Corbyn, the party's current leader, wants to re-enact.
Democrat Jon Ossoff may have the upper hand over Republican Karen Handel in the closely watched runoff to fill the seat for Georgia's 6th District, according to two newly released surveys. Ossoff holds a 7-point edge, 51 percent to 44 percent, in a live-caller Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll conducted by Abt Associates and released Friday.
Marred by two terror attacks during the campaign, Britain's snap general election on Thursday will decide who shapes the United Kingdom's future as it leaves the European Union. Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who came to power without a national vote last year after David Cameron's resignation, called the election three years early after just one year in charge.
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