Tag: Brexit

4 September 2019

Boris Johnson was right to throw Tory rebels out of the party after their disloyalty over Brexit, according to a ...

Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson in parliament

Corbyn ‘commanding’ in parliament as Johnson’s government goes into freefall

by Ed Sykes

Boris Johnson's government is rapidly going into freefall. Because as the PM was giving a statement in parliament on 3 ...

Tony Blair is concern trolling you. Centrists do not fear a general election because of Brexit.

by James Wright

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Tony Blair and the centrists are essentially concern trolling the Labour leadership, its supporters, and anyone who wants to see ...

Boris Johnson speaking outside Downing Street

There’s an absolutely delicious detail in the small print of Boris Johnson’s plan to fire Tory rebels

by Tracy Keeling

There's a thoroughly delectable detail in Boris Johnson's plan to fire rebel Tory MPs. The PM has threatened to deselect ...

When Arlene Foster says ‘we’re not afraid of elections’ nobody believes her

Following Boris Johnson’s unconvincing announcement outside Downing Street on 2 September, a UK general election could now take place on ...

Brexit protest and hard border checkpoint

25 years since the IRA’s ceasefire and the UK still doesn’t know how to relate to Ireland

On 31 August 1994, the IRA announced the first of two major ceasefires in the 1990s. It ended a 26-year ...

Tory rebels vow to defy PM’s ‘hypocritcal’ threats in no-deal Brexit showdown

Conservative backbenchers had been threatened with having the whip withdrawn if they vote for legislation designed to stop a no-deal ...

With Boris Johnson turning the UK into a dictatorship, the BBC gushes over his new dog

by James Wright

Boris Johnson is mid-way through turning the UK into a "elective dictatorship", in the words of shadow chancellor John McDonnell. ...

A campaign group just made the government’s hypocrisy ‘visible from space’

by Tracy Keeling

The UK government is effectively now telling its citizens that a no-deal Brexit will be a piece of cake. The ...

Michael Gove and almost empty supermarket shelves

Michael Gove’s claim that a no-deal Brexit won’t affect food supplies is ‘categorically untrue’

Michael Gove, the cabinet minister responsible for leading the government's preparations for a no-deal Brexit, appeared on The Andrew Marr ...

Nicola Sturgeon: MPs must prioritise stopping no-deal Brexit

The First Minister of Scotland said that all options must be kept on the table as part of efforts to ...

Johnson is ‘goading’ Tory rebels so he can force an election, says Gauke

The Conservative former justice secretary accused the Prime Minister of trying to purge rebels from the party.

As Swinson goes MIA, Corbyn proves he’s Leader of the Opposition in both name and nature

by Ed Sykes

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On 31 August, thousands of people took to the streets across Britain to oppose Boris Johnson's parliamentary coup. And while ...

The sharing of Johnson’s Brexit tweets raises some interesting questions

Academic Marc Owen Jones studied two of Boris Johnson’s Brexit tweets from 15 and 27 August. He found something, that ...

McDonnell slams the ‘dictatorship’ after Johnson takes his assault on UK democracy to the next level

by James Wright

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell branded Boris Johnson's government an "elective dictatorship" on 1 September after the administration took its assault ...

People protesting against Boris Johnson's proroguing of parliament

No-deal Brexit could cause ‘fatal’ medicine shortages, according to health union leaders

by Afroze Fatima Zaidi