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The BBC was forced to broadcast scenes of Last Night of the Proms attendees waving European flags after anti-Brexit campaigners handed out thousands. Pro-European berets at the front of the crowds at Last Night of the Proms. Photograph: BBC. – Credit: Archant The EU Flags Proms Team first organised the stunt in 2016 after millionaire […]

Former Tory minister Sam Gyimah has joined the Liberal Democrats – giving a boost to the anti-Brexit party on the first day of conference. Gyimah, who ran for Tory leader just three months months ago, has previously served as a minister and served as parliamentary private secretary to David Cameron. He was one of 21 […]

NINA DE AYALA PARKER on the patriarchal force of privileged Etonians professing to be acting on behalf of the people. Dominic Cumm…, or rather, Boris Johnson has prorogued parliament until October 15th, which is exactly fifteen days before Dominic Cumm… I mean Boris Johnson… intends for Britain to crash out of the EU with ‘no […]

Boris Johnson can’t even deliver a donkey let alone a Brexit unicorn, the Alliance Party’s leader has claimed. Green Party in Northern Ireland leader Clare Bailey speaks at a People’s Vote rally at Ulster Hall in Belfast. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA. – Credit: PA Wire/PA Images Naomi Long was one of the speakers at the latest […]

The Lib Dems have started conference season in Bournemouth by debating whether the party should propose revoking Article 50 altogether. Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson is looking to take her party into that election as the party most unequivocally in favour of staying in the EU. She wants to sign her colleagues up to the […]

David Cameron has said he is ‘truly mess’ for the uncertainty and division that followed the Brexit vote – but still believes it was right to hold a referendum. The former prime minister said he thinks about the consequences of the vote to leave the EU “every single day” and worries “desperately” about what will […]

Cabinet minister Nicky Morgan has broken ranks with the rest of the government to reveal she would still vote to Remain in the European Union if given the chance in a second referendum. https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1172772388104220672 But the culture secretary insisted she did not support holding another poll and believed the original result needed to be “fulfilled”. […]

David Cameron has spoken out about worrying ‘desperately’ about the consequences of Brexit and said that a second referendum cannot be ruled out. In an explosive interview with the Times, the former Tory prime minister admitted he thinks about the consequences of the 2016 poll “every single day”. Cameron told the paper: “Every single day […]

The prime minister has denied ever saying that money spent on historic child abuse investigations is ‘spaffed up the wall’, to the disbelief of an assembled press corps in Rotherham. A reporter reminded Boris Johnson of the infamous statement, which the prime minister had made in an interview on LBC earlier this year, and asked […]

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Boris Johnson has had a tongue-lashing from a young woman who said he was selling a Brexit and post-austerity ‘fairytale’. Fresh from being heckled in his press conference in Rotherham, the prime minister was later scornfully told: “You have the cheeck to come here” by a young woman in Doncaster. In a video shared by […]

While Boris Johnson claims he has struck on the ‘rough shape’ of a Brexit deal, Leo Varadkar has said that the British government’s newest proposals fall ‘very short of what we would need’ for a new agreement. The leaders of both countries appear to have very differing outlooks on the progress towards a new withdrawal […]

The Metropolitan police has closed its investigation into Leave.EU, saying the campaign had made ‘technical breaches’ of electoral law but it would not be pursuing the case. The case was raised into Leave.EU and its CEO Liz Bilney when the Electoral Commission (EC) found that the group had breached spending rules and passed a file […]

Boris Johnson has been heckled in Rotherham by a heckler protesting the prorogation of MPs, telling him to ‘get back to parliament’. A heckler is ejected as Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a speech at the Convention of the North at the Magna Centre in Rotherham. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/PA Wire. – Credit: PA Giving a […]

Nigel Farage has claimed there are ‘no facts at all’ in the Yellowhammer document, leading a caller to his LBC show to accuse the Brexit Party leader of dealing only in slogans. Yet when he was asked to provide his own “facts” about leaving the EU, he brought forth three abstract concepts and some misleading […]

Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has said pubs will benefit if the UK leaves the EU – with or without a deal – on October 31st. The prominent and outspoken Brexit campaigner brushed aside fears over plunging consumer spending in the event of a no-deal Brexit and said Britons would instead come flocking to his pubs […]

There has been an outcry from MEPs and Jean-Claude Juncker after the incoming EU president established an office ‘for protecting our European way of life’. The newly-appointed Ursula von der Leyen has put Magartis Schinas in the role, which handles migration across the EU 27. But there has been an immediate backlash from across the […]

Speaker John Bercow has vowed to stop Boris Johnson to stop breaking the law surrounding a delay to no-deal Brexit. Bercow said in a London speech that the so-called Benn Act enforcing the extension means the only possible Brexit outcome is one approved by parliament. The former Tory warned that it is “astonishing” that anyone […]

The Daily Express has bizarrely claimed the Supreme Court was set up by Tony Blair in 2005 in order to block Brexit 14 years later. The Brexit-backing paper’s report Martina Bet has said that “unearthed reports” – which appear to be Hansard – show that Mr Blair was responsible for establishing the final court of […]

A student has started a petition attempting to ban Boris Johnson from his former Oxford University college, saying it is no longer an ‘old boys’ club’. The petition calls on Balliol College to publicly condemn the prime minister for suspending parliament, remove his alumni status and to stop him from attending any of the college’s […]

The Question Time audience appeared to speak for much of the nation when they lined up to express exasperation at the latest developments with Brexit. In one clip an older audience member said Brexit was a “nightmare” and when asked about David Cameron’s legacy said: “I don’t care to tell you the truth. “The whole […]

A date has been set for John Humphrys’ departure from the Today programme – and it will follow an interview with former prime minister David Cameron. David Cameron outside Downing Street – Credit: Getty Images Humphrys announced his departure in February after 32 years on the programme but had not announced a date. But Buzzfeed […]

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Several major Brexit-related court cases have dominated the news with their highs and lows, with more to come – here’s your guide in case it’s all starting to get confusing. – Belfast High Court A legal challenge that argued the government’s Brexit strategy would damage the Northern Ireland peace process was dismissed on Thursday. Lord […]

A former prime minister has said the government is ‘still not telling the truth’ about medicine and food shortages that would result in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Gordon Brown, former Labour leader, has argued that the Operation Yellowhammer report has concealed the full truth about shortages to vital medicines and drugs if the […]

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has claimed that the government is ‘still not telling the truth’ about the impact of a no-deal Brexit. Brown has argued that the Operation Yellowhammer report looking at no-deal scenarios still concealed the full truth. He has written to the prime minister accusing him of “dishonest claims” that underestimate the […]

Boris Johnson has said a £15 billion bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland would be a ‘very good’ idea. The prime minister revealed his thoughts on the ambitious proposal as he spoke to schoolchildren onboard lighthouse tender NLV Pharos on the Thames. Johnson told the children that he had recently been discussing the possibility of […]

Publicity-starved political company boss Nigel Farage got a rare chance to air his views on the BBC yesterday, but he was entirely outshone by an anti-racist protester. The Brexit Party boss was given a mere 10 minutes of time on the Andrew Neil show, where he was interviewed via video link from outside a party […]