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The guests on Jeremy Vine’s Channel 5 show often provide some eyebrow-raising moments when discussing Brexit, but this time it is the host getting in on the action. One particular moment has sparked a number of comments on social media after a video emerged of the presenter appealing directly to the Queen to intervene in […]

Government guidance appears to suggest ministers expect the process of importing medicine from the EU after no-deal Brexit will take longer – despite repeated assurances the public need not worry. Documents published by the Department for Health and Social Care (DoHSC) warn suppliers to change the way they operate to accommodate a longer process. The […]

With a possible recession and trade war with China looming, even Republican strongholds are no longer guaranteed to plump for Trump, says BONNIE GREER. North Carolina, the state where Donald Trump has arguably received his most urgent wake-up call regarding 2020, is known as the Tar Heel State. That name may have come from the […]

Labour needs to recognise it has new heartlands it needs to represent – not just its traditional ones, says Mary Honeyball As the Labour Party prepares for one of its most significant conferences of the past 25 years, the leadership would do well to engage in some of the self-criticism beloved by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, […]

John Humphrys has said the BBC failed to understand what the UK public voted for in the EU referendum as part of a serialisation of his book in right-wing newspaper the Daily Mail. The outgoing presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme has said the broadcaster suffers from a liberal-left bias. Humphrys, who earned […]

Momentum is attempting to remove Tom Watson from his role as deputy leader of the Labour Party for ‘disloyalty’ over the party’s Brexit position. At a meeting of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) Jon Lansman, the founder of left-wing group Momentum, proposed a motion to scrap the role of deputy leader. The chair of the […]

Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson are planning to bring back their amendment for a confirmatory referendum if Boris Johnson tries to force through a Brexit deal next month. When first proposed as an amendment to Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal agreement, it gathered the full support of all opposition parties including the front bench […]

After Jo Swinson ruled out working with Jeremy Corbyn the Labour leader has said he too would not be interested in a coalition if there is a hung parliament at the next election. The Labour leader said they would look to force an election once it was clear a no-deal Brexit was off the table. […]

Leave.EU founder Arron Banks is selling a diamond mine that has been at the centre of hotly-denied claims over the funding of his 2016 Brexit campaign. Banks confirmed to Channel 4 News that his Newlands mine in the Northern Cape province of South Africa is up for sale for 10m South African rands – just […]

A Question Time audience member has blamed the Lib Dems, rather than Brexiteers or Tories, for the Brexit mess. Addressing the Lib Dem MP, the Southampton woman said his party were “hypocrites” and the mess had little to do with the Tories. She said: “Ed Davey how you have the hypocrisy to say what you […]

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Conservative Party members have been suspended pending an investigation into Islamophobic posts on social media. An anonymous tipster passed on the details to the BBC of numerous Tory members who had “shared or supported anti-Muslim posts” on Twitter and Facebook. The party said it has immediately suspended the members “pending investigation”. Tory MEP Sajjad Karim […]

Readers consider the possibility of an election pact between Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party and the Conservatives. Having dealt with the moderates, it is Dominic Cummings’ feuds with fellow Brexiteers which will alienate the prime minister’s remaining parliamentary supporters and reduce the chances of a deal with the Brexit Party. Cummings has called the European Research […]

A general election would be a proxy vote on Brexit – but it still will not resolve Brexit. Readers call for a People’s Vote. Judging by the three little words flung at journalists recently by Dominic Cummings as he left the basement of his flat, “trust the people” looks likely to be a central theme […]

A new campaign has been launched to try to win over those undecided on Brexit ahead of a possible second referendum on EU membership. Part of the new #WhereWeStand campaign video. Photograph: Best for Britain. – Credit: Archant The Best for Britain campaign aims to make a “positive case for Europe” which the group believes […]

Brexit Party MEPs have sparked outrage on social media for abstaining on a European parliament motion that called on Iran to release imprisoned European citizens including Brit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of detained Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, outside the Iranian Embassy in Knightsbridge, London – Credit: PA Wire/PA Images The motion called on Iranian […]

Rapper slowthai has become the latest artist to rebuke prime minister Boris Johnson through the medium of music. The musician screamed “f*** Boris” before his Mercury Prize performance. The award-nominated artist held a mask of the prime minister Boris Johnson aloft as he took to the stage and addressed the crowd at the Eventim Apollo […]

Boris Johnson will find himself in court if he cannot secure a deal by October 19th, the chair of the Brexit select committee Hilary Benn has said. “If the prime minister were extraordinarily to say I have no intention of complying with the law then he could expect to find himself in court on the […]

A protest and rally in favour of remaining in the European Union will be held near Labour Party conference in Brighton. Leading figures from all factions within the party will be joining the ‘Trust The People’ march which has been organised by the People’s Vote campaign. While the party’s position on Brexit and a People’s […]

British band Foals have joked that they hope their fans aren’t Brexiteers because of their liberal stance. Speaking ahead of the Mercury Prize 2019 awards at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith the band wore Extinction Rebellion stickers and shared their support for the climate activists. They have called on musicians to unite in the environmental […]

Sir Paul McCartney said he wasn’t convinced by either side in the EU referendum in 2016 – so did not vote. But speaking to BBC Two’s Newsnight he admitted the most off-putting element of the debate was th eBrexiteers who said they were going to take the country back the “old days”. Sir Paul, 77, […]

MITCH BENN asks why the PM would compare himself to the Hulk – a personification of uncontrolled anger, fury, and whose alter ego is desperate to escape. It doesn’t seem to take much these days to get me feeling old. Mind you, that’s been the case since I was about 24; sometimes I wish I […]

STEVE ANGLESEY wonders what sinister motives might be behind the government’s new £140m Brexit advertising campaign The phrase “spaffing it up the wall” is back in the public consciousness; thankfully not as a result of new revelations about initiation ceremonies in David Cameron’s autobiography but courtesy of a Boris Johnson press conference in Rotherham. Visiting […]

Whichever way the ultimate judgment goes, this week’s case has shone a harsh light on our government, says ZOE WILLIAMS. This period, waiting for the final judgment of the Supreme Court about the legality of parliament’s prorogation, could be a profoundly interesting time, if only we didn’t have to live here. For well over three […]

MICHAEL WHITE tries to ignore the sound and fury in search of the real significance of recent events. ‘Empty Chairs’, illustrated by Martin Rowson. – Credit: Archant The Halloween Brexit crisis is getting so dangerous now that we can all agree on the importance of dialling down the aggro a bit, right? No, not right, […]

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A man who voted to leave the EU has admitted he would now vote Remain, saying: ‘I was fooled’. Caller Daniel from Newton told James O’Brien on his LBC show that he was scared of upcoming trade deals with America and would now vote Remain. He said that during the referendum, he “wasn’t just a […]

Gary Lineker has been posed a humdinger of a question on James O’Brien’s radio show. The ardent Remainer and footballing legend was asked to choose between saving the country from Brexit and saving the 1986 World Cup from the clutches of Diego Maradona’s handball. “If I could give you a magic wand and you could […]