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Boris Johnson’s new advisers are urging ministers to avoid Radio 4’s Today programme as they believe the programme is a ‘total waste of time’. According to the Mail on Sunday the new director of communications at Downing Street Lee Cairn has advised his colleagues to stop putting up ministers to appear on the programme. The […]

A petition is demanding that MPs to return to parliament immediately to deal with the threat of a no-deal Brexit. More than 13,000 people have signed the proposal which is calling for politicians to be recalled. It was created by Marcus David Lynch, who wants MPs to do more to scrutinise Boris Johnson’s Brexit proposals. […]

A poll has found that three out of five voters in Northern Ireland would prefer a border down the Irish sea with the European Union over a hard Brexit. The survey carried out by market research company LucidTalk asked people how they would vote in a referendum that proposed Northern Ireland remaining closely aligned to […]

Support for Change UK in one poll is so small it does not register in charts of Westminster voting intention. Support for the Change UK party – now known as the Independent Group for Change – is now even smaller than support for UKIP, a party recently beaten by the Official Monster Raving Loony Party […]

Tory Brexiteer MP Andrew Bridgen has said that MPs do not need to be recalled because the government has things under control, and he has a holiday planned for the last two weeks of recess. Bridgen was appearing on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire’s programme to respond to calls from politicians across the political divide that […]

Nigel Farage has been accused of being ‘deluded’ after dismissing the revelations from the government’s leaked document surrounding a No-Deal Brexit. Farage was asking listeners of his LBC Radio whether people believed what the leaked document claimed about the UK crashing out without a deal, which included a hard border in Ireland and the loss […]

Ministers have been criticised for already spending more than £10 million trying to sell Brexit to the public. Figures released to the PA news agency under Freedom of Information laws showed the government spent £10,842,063 on their Prepare For EU Exit adverts between November 2018 and July this year. The Cabinet Office spent £2.7 million […]

Politicians in Ireland have said that no-one should be surprised by the damning verdict of government officials on the impact of a No-Deal Brexit. The documents, published by the Sunday Times, warn that the UK will be hit with a three-month “meltdown” at ports, a hard Irish border and shortages of food and medicine if […]

To little fanfare the government’s Brexit secretary claimed that a ‘landmark’ moment had been passed which sets ‘in stone the repeal of the European Communities Act 1972’. Minister Steve Barclay was pictured posing for a photo showing the moment he signed the regulation into law, proudly declaring: “We are leaving the EU as promised on […]

Anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller has claimed the government ‘unequivocally’ accepts that it cannot close down parliament to allow a no-deal Brexit. https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1163000178896510978 The businesswoman, who last month wrote to Boris Johnson arguing any move to prorogue parliament “would be an abuse of his powers” and would result in legal action, said she had been reassured […]

Leaked official government documents reveal the UK faces a shortage of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland. The leaked documents were compiled by the Cabinet Office and look at the most likely aftershocks after a No-Deal Brexit, and have […]

Boris Johnson is set to tell Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron that parliament cannot stop a no-deal Brexit in an attempt to get a new deal with Europe. Johnson will make clear to the French president and German chancellor that Britain will leave the European Union on October 31 with or without a deal. The […]

Boris Johnson has been urged by more than 100 MPs from across the House of Commons to immediately recall parliament and let it sit permanently until Britain’s scheduled EU departure on October 31. Tory former ministers Dominic Grieve and Guto Bebb were among the signatories of a letter sent to the prime minister which claims […]

The Independent for Change group have been criticised after its leader said it would not vote against the government in an no confidence vote. As a result the numbers for a vote to remove Boris Johnson might be even trickier than expected. In a statement group leader Anna Soubry said: “To suggest, as a significant […]

Pro-EU Tory grandee Ken Clarke has said he is willing to lead a government of national unity to avoid a no-deal Brexit. The former chancellor gave his support to a proposal by Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson for an emergency government led by him or Labour’s Harriet Harman. Clarke said it was “not inconceivable” that […]

A hit list has been created that will target 150 seats where Remainers can win to tip the balance against Brexit in an early general election. Best for Britain, who ran highly successful tactical voting campaigns at the 2017 General Election and 2019 European elections, have refined their model using the most up-to-date postcode level […]

From Brexiteer James Dyson taking EU subsidies to Neil Hamilton criticising children’s political views. How well do you remember these stories? We have pulled together a quiz of ten questions which will test your knowledge of the irreverent news surrounding Brexit from the past three years. How much do you remember?

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The Brexit Party had admitted it has had to ‘trim down’ part of Nigel Farage’s UK tour – removing Scotland from its calendar of events. The list of conference tour events that were due to take place across the UK has now shrunk, with the Brexit Party organisation blaming a possible forthcoming general election, rather […]

It was the week that was meant to show a united Remain alliance that could topple Boris Johnson and stop Brexit. But far from uniting the anti-Brexit movement, the divisions between each fraction have blown open up again. Caroline Lucas’ initial proposal for an emergency cabinet saw the Green MP on the back foot after […]

A Youtuber who specialises in dubbing Monty Python dialogue onto political debates has gone viral with his latest video, and it’s perfect. Comedy YouTube account Carlos Manwelly has perfectly matched a classic scene from The Life of Brian to Boris Johnson’s first turn at the despatch box in the House of Commons. “They take everything […]

UKIP’s new leader, Richard Braine, has been active on Twitter since May 2010 and that has given him time to surprise nobody with his views on a wealth of issues. Braine has tweeted that “anti-white racism” is the most prevalent form of racism in the UK today. Picture: Twitter – Credit: Twitter Braine is vocal […]

On this week’s podcast Jeremy Corbyn makes an offer that the Lib Dems can refuse. Steve Anglesey, Geri Scott, Mia Jankowicz and Jono Read also take a look at Boris Johnson’s alternative PMQs and the furore over the Telegraph’s no-deal Brexit polling. Plus we crown another Brexiteer of the Week and the listeners give their […]

A businessman has warned there would be civil unrest if there is a no-deal Brexit, and said he would be ‘banging’ and ‘screaming’ outside Number 10 if it happened. Pimlico Plumber founder Charlie Mullins told talkRADIO’s James Whales that he believed Boris Johnson would eventually “put the country first” and seek to delay Article 50. […]

The Brexit Party said a candidate who made ‘abhorrent racist’ comments and was vetted by Nigel Farage was announced in ‘error’ this week. Nigel Farage recently claimed you’d struggle to find anything racist about him. Photograph: ITV. – Credit: Archant General election candidate for the Moray constituency Mark Nash called for mosques to be bulldozed […]

There is urgent need for collaboration between Remain parties ahead of a possible general election. PETER DUNPHY from Unite to Remain explains how he hopes the movement will go further than that. In the run-up to the close of nominations in the European Parliament elections back in April, there were a series of increasingly pressing […]

A Conservative MP has slammed Boris Johnson’s claims that some MPs have turned ‘collaborators’ with Europe to block Brexit saying his remarks are ‘unforgivable’. Boris Johnson made the comments in a Facebook Live Q&A at Downing Street. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas – Credit: PA Wire/PA Images Guto Bebb, MP For Aberconwy, labelled the prime minister’s views […]

Jo Swinson is under pressure from across the political divide to rethink her outright dismissal of Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to prevent a no-deal Brexit by becoming caretaker prime minister. SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon told the Lib Dem leader that she should rethink her rejection of the proposition, which the Lib Dem leader described as “nonsense”. […]