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Research by the Hansard Society found that 54 % of voters want a strong leader who is willing to break the rules while 72 % said the system needs “quite a lot” or “a great deal” of improvement. British voters want a strong leader who is willing to break the rules and force through wide […]
Prime Minister Theresa May has turned to the opposition Labour to help pass the crucial EU withdrawal package, but the party is also riven by differing views on Brexit, with many party MPs opposed to another referendum. Talks between Prime Minister Theresa May’s team and senior Labour leaders continued on Thursday, without any progress, but […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday said the United Kingdom would seek a further short extension from the European Union to try and break the parliamentary logjam over Brexit. After a marathon seven-hour-long Cabinet meeting at Downing Street, May issued a statement to indicate the government’s next steps a day after the House of […]
British lawmakers have voted on eight different possible Brexit options, but none received the majority support that would clarify the UK’s course. Parliament is trying to find an alternative to Prime Minister Theresa May’s twice-rejected EU divorce deal. Lawmakers voted Wednesday on options that included leaving the European Union without a deal, staying in the […]
After three years of tortuous debate, it is still uncertain how, when or even if Brexit will happen as Ms. May tries to plot a way out of the gravest political crisis in at least a generation. Hundreds of thousands of people opposed to Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London on […]
The House of Commons will debate and vote next week on the EU withdrawal deal in Prime Minister Theresa May’s third attempt to secure its passage, after the European Union agreed to a brief, conditional delay to Brexit beyond the due date of March 29. There were questions about May’s longevity in office after Conservative […]
European Union leaders staved off the threat of the UK crashing out of the bloc without a deal next Friday by giving Theresa May an extra two weeks to work out what to do. At a summit in Brussels on Thursday, the leaders told May that if UK lawmakers don’t endorse her Brexit deal next […]
The British PM’s EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs by an overwhelming 149 votes, with just 17 days to go. British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday suffered yet another massive Parliament defeat over Brexit when MPs overwhelmingly rejected her withdrawal agreement by 149 votes, leaving the March 29 deadline for the deal […]
Theresa May is promising a 1.6 billion-pound ($2.1 billion) boost for poorer areas of the UK as she steps up efforts to get her Brexit deal over the line. The Stronger Towns Fund was immediately attacked as an attempt by the prime minister to “buy” the support of opposition politicians in Leave-supporting districts to back […]
Two leading lights in the Brexit debate – House of Commons speaker John Bercow and veteran Conservative MP Ken Clarke – have been dubbed ‘Tandoori traitors’ for meeting in an Indian restaurant and discussing a ‘plot’ to remain in the European Union. Clarke, MP from Rushcliffe and currently the ‘father of the house’, is a […]