News and Opinion

The travel and insurance company Saga has apologised after customers received a brochure advertising a holiday cruise which was ‘exclusively for Brits’. Outraged phonecall from my mother: she was shocked to receive @SagaUK brochure advertising cruises 'exclusively for Brits.' She asked me why they would say this & if it's legal. '?? (Also, in terms […]

Young anti-Brexit and Labour activist NATHAN BORODA on his expectations for next week’s Labour conference. More than 70% of young people voted to Remain in the EU in 2016, and at least 80% of those enfranchised since, like me, would vote to Remain if given the chance. It is undoubtedly true that for those who […]

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme tonight comes from Southampton, the Hampshire city whose football club once fielded a player who tricked them into thinking he was George Weah’s cousin. But which of tonight’s panel have hoodwinked the producers […]

Veteran BBC broadcaster John Humphrys has quit Radio 4’s Today programme with a snub towards politicians like Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn who have avoided the programme. The Today presenter bowed out of the early morning BBC Radio 4 programme after 32 years and 5,000 programmes. Humphrys, 76, who has been accused of “poisoning the […]

Unimpressed with a recent attempt to compile a list of the greatest movies of the millennium, RICHARD LUCK provides his own countdown. Call Me by Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino (2017). – Credit: Archant Lists – they’re meant to get people talking. A glaring omission here, a surprise selection there, the odd bold choice… […]

A Brexiteer took on the doctor behind some of the guidance given to the government in its Yellowhammer documents – and appeared to suggest he voted for medical shortages in the event of a no-deal Brexit. While Remainers have argued that nobody voted for medical shortages, delays at ports, or a lack of food, the […]

Former prime minister Sir John Major has hit out at the government as documents reveal that Boris Johnson is considering proroguing parliament again even if the court rules against him. Sir John is an intervener in an unprecedented case at the Supreme Court over the prime minister’s advice to the Queen to suspend parliament for […]

Boris Johnson got away with lies and misdemeanours during the referendum. ALASTAIR CAMPBELL asks why do we expect anything different as PM? To Belfast, for a People’s Vote rally, en route trying to guess roughly how many times I have done that flight before… it’s into the dozens, most of them as Tony Blair sought […]

Tony Blair has said that both the Tories and Labour should ‘worry a lot’ about the Liberal Democrats taking over the centre ground of politics. The former Labour prime minister was asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about the fate of the two-party system. He said: “What will destroy the two-party system is if […]

David Cameron accidentally misspoke on daytime television claiming that he had ‘sh*t’ rather than ‘shouted’ at the television when he saw the Vote Leave bus. In one of the many appearances in the media this week to promote his memoirs the former prime minister appeared on This Morning alongside his wife. Cameron told presenters Holly […]

A father who confronted Boris Johnson at an NHS hospital has defended the BBC’s political editor after she faced criticism for pointing out he is a Labour activist. Omar Salem said Laura Kuenssberg was doing her job “without fear or favour”, after a Twitter storm in which she was condemned for potentially opening him up […]

A Green Party MEP tried to connect to the wifi in the European parliament and had a surprise when she saw the name of a nearby hotspot. The WiFi networks in the ⁦@Europarl_EN⁩ pic.twitter.com/97j3FD0ayR— Alexandra Phillips MEP (@alexforeurope) September 19, 2019 Alexandra Phillips, the Green Party MEP for South East England, was connecting to the […]

The Remain alliance has made a number of mistakes over the last three years, but none as bad as the blunders of the Brexiteers, says ANDREW ADONIS. The Brexit endgame is nigh. To win we need a strong Remain alliance. So far so good, thanks to Boris Johnson and the poll tax properties of Brexit […]

JAMES BALL says the Lib Dems are doing what they do best: bite-size, populist politics based on the principle they won’t have to deliver on promises. Even to those not following the news closely, the big news out of the Liberal Democrat conference probably didn’t feel all that new – the party has made it […]

Stanley Johnson has bluntly been asked about his son’s ability to lie, shortly before he too repeated one of Boris Johnson’s lies. Appearing on Good Morning Britain to discuss climate change, attention soon turned to his son. He said: “I think he is getting on absolutely fine, everything is going completely smoothly.” Johnson had been […]

The Tories fear that the Supreme Court is looking set to rule against Boris Johnson and the government over the suspension of parliament. The Supreme Court in London where judges are hearing legal challenges to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire. – Credit: PA There is concern that judges […]

A poll has put support for the Liberal Democrats ahead of Labour after its party conference in Bournemouth. In the YouGov poll for the Times, Labour has been put in third place following the resurgency of the Lib Dems. It follows Jo Swinson’s decision to back an outright revocation of Article 50 without a referendum. […]

As global dangers increase, former diplomat PAUL KNOTT reports on how the world’s tyrants learned to play the president like a fool. BEIJING, CHINA – NOVEMBER 9, 2017: China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump (L-R front) shake hands during a meeting outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Artyom Ivanov/TASS […]

Police have claimed that the ‘fastest-growing’ threat of terrorist violence in the UK comes from the far-right. Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer, the Met’s assistant commissioner Neil Basu claimed that while the issue was “small”, it is the Met’s “fastest-growing problem”. The UK head of counter-terrorism Neil Basu said seven of the 22 plots foiled since […]

David Cameron said that speaker John Bercow would make his ‘life hell’ during his time as prime minister. Cameron – during his media blitz ahead of the publication of his memoirs, For The Record – told LBC’s Nick Ferrari that he was at times baffled by Bercow’s actions. “I almost, sort of, got out of […]

The BBC has scrapped the public vote used to select the UK’s Eurovision Song Contest entry, instead opting to give a record label the final say. It means there will be no Eurovision: You Decide, which has run since 2016. Instead, the international music company BMG will select which act and song represent the UK […]

The Supreme Court has been told to ‘stand up for democracy’ as it heard why it should uphold a Scottish court’s decision to rule the prorogation of parliament ‘unlawful’. Protesters outside the Supreme Court in London where judges are due to consider legal challenges to Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament. Picture: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire […]

Political flipflopper Matt Hancock has told Steve Bray to ‘go back to Luxembourg’ after the anti-Brexit campaigner started to ask him difficult questions. Hancock, who spoke out against a no-deal Brexit during the Tory leadership contest, was not prepared to answer Steve Bray’s questions when asked if it was time the government was “honest” with […]

The snowflakes in the Brexit Party have been outraged again after a Lib Dem MEP shouted ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ in the European parliament. Chris Davies, a Liberal Democrat MEP. Photograph: European Parliament. – Credit: Archant Chris Davies was speaking after the European parliament voted in support of granting the UK an extension to Article 50 […]

The Polish ambassador to the UK has written to Poles in the UK asking them to ‘seriously consider returning to their homeland’ after raising concerns about the post-Brexit settlement scheme. Arkady Rzegocki told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he had written to about 800,000 Poles in the UK, saying should consider it because the […]

Essex Police have confirm that Tory Brexiteer Mark Francois is not actually a police officer after he was spotted in Rayleigh on Friday night wearing the full kit. https://twitter.com/EssexPoliceUK/status/1174300972081979394 The Brexiteer, who has claimed that the country could “explode” after October 31st if we do not leave the European Union, was photographed by social media […]

The prime minister’s visit to a hospital was interrupted by a parent angry over ‘years and years and years of the NHS being destroyed’. Boris Johnson was accused of treating his visit to Whipps Cross University Hospital as a “press opportunity” and was asked if he would accept low healthcare staffing levels for his own […]

A majority of the British public dispute claims from Boris Johnson’s government that it is making progress towards a Brexit deal. Johnson had told the Mail on Sunday there were “real signs of movement” on getting rid of the backstop, the persistent stumbling block to a Brexit agreement. He said: “A huge amount of progress […]