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Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens could be left without the right to live and work in the UK after next year despite being entitled to these privileges. Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesperson, Ed Davey has raised concerns about the hundreds of thousands of EU citizens who could be left without the right to live […]

The disagreements between the opposition parties continue, as the Lib Dems refuse to support Jeremy Corbyn as a replacement for Boris Johnson. Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has suggested Ken Clarke or Harriet Harman be installed as the prime minister of an “emergency government” to resolve the Brexit crisis. Swinson dismissed Jeremy Corbyn’s challenge to […]

Campaigners calling for a second referendum have herded a flock of sheep past the Cabinet Office as they protest against the potentially devastating impact a no-deal Brexit could have on farmers in the UK. Sean Rickard (cenre), former Chief Economist for the National Farmers Union (NFU), poses with a flock of sheep alongside the Farmers […]

A Brexiteer has claimed that we did not need academics and experts to win World War II, and was promptly given a history lesson over Twitter by Remainers. This Twitter user received a history lesson. Photograph: Twitter. – Credit: Archant A user who goes by the name of Stanley White tweeted took a leaf out […]

Former Tory MP Sarah Wollaston has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying it is the best way for her to fight to remain in the EU. Dr Wollaston quit the Conservatives in February over the party’s “disastrous handling of Brexit”. The Totnes MP joined what would become the Independent Group for Change, but left that fledgling […]

Millionaire Brexiteer Arron Banks Arron Banks has come under fire for a tweet about 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg. The Leave.EU founder and pro-Brexit donor responded to a post by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas about Greta’s voyage across the Atlantic on a racing yacht, writing: “Freak yachting accidents do happen in August …” […]

Jeremy Corbyn has been told that his suggestion he should be installed as a caretaker prime minister to prevent a no-deal Brexit under Boris Johnson has been branded a ‘nonsense’ idea by Jo Swinson. The Labour leader’s proposal would be “strictly time-limited” to seek an extension to the Article 50 process to delay the UK […]

A Brexit protester who caused disruption costing more than £1 million by blocking trains running between London, Kent and France has been jailed. Terry Maher, 44, climbed on top of a tunnel overlooking railway lines near St Pancras International station in March, causing disruption to thousands of travellers with his one-man protest, according to British […]

50,000 European flags will be handed out at this year’s Last Night of The Proms as an anti-Brexit activist group raises the stakes in 2019. Pro-EU campaigners will hand out 50,000 EU flags at this years Last Night of The Proms. Picture: Niklas Halle’n – Credit: Archant The EU Flags Proms Team first organised the […]

The speaker of the US House of Representatives has said that a US-UK post-Brexit trade deal will be blocked by congress if it undermines the Good Friday Agreement. Nancy Pelosi, whose Democrat party controls the House, said that Brexit must not endanger peace in Ireland. Her comments follow those made by Donald Trump’s US national […]

Boris Johnson has used his social media platform to accuse MPs and the EU of collaborating to block Brexit, which he said increases the risk of leaving without a deal. Responding to a cherrypicked question during his so-called “People’s PMQs” on Facebook, the prime minister claimed that Brussels is “not moving in their willingness to […]

A Brexit Party MEP has made a remarkable contribution to a discussion about climate change with a surprising suggestion of his own. Please tell me this is a parody https://t.co/Y4E9xEW7PQ— badly drawn bee (@soapachu) August 14, 2019 Lance Forman was chiming in with a tweet from Brexiteer broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer, who suggested that the threat […]

A campaigner has vowed to fight on in a court case against Boris Johnson – despite a judge ruling against his appeal. Boris Johnson (left) and Dr Liam Fox at a Vote Leave event. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA. – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images A case brought by Marcus Ball as a private prosecutor claimed that Johnson […]

A former top American diplomat has warned against ‘oversimplifying’ matters after a US national security adviser claimed that the UK would be ‘first in line’ for a trade deal. Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton made headlines after a visit to Number 10 when he stated that a bilateral agreement could be agreed “very […]

UKIP’s new leader Richard Braine has said he is ‘getting a bit fed up’ with people joking about his name – and that he is considering changing it. “Dick Braine” trended on Twitter shortly after he was elected as the successor to Gerard Batten as leader of the right-wing party. Braine has took to Twitter […]

Labour must work with the Liberal Democrats to prevent an ‘undemocratic and disastrous’ no-deal Brexit, Labour’s deputy leader is urging. Senior figures within Labour have ruled out working in a cross-party alliance to prevent a no-deal departure as the prime minister prepares to leave the EU by October 31, regardless of whether a deal is […]

Speaker John Bercow warned he ‘will fight with every breath in my body’ any attempt by the PM to suspend parliament to force through no-deal against MPs’ wishes. Bercow told an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe festival that he “strongly” believes the House of Commons “must have its way”, in remarks reported by the Herald […]

Boris Johnson would be betraying the referendum result if he enacted a no-deal Brexit by listening to the ‘unelected’ saboteurs, former chancellor Philip Hammond has argued. Hammond has urged the Tory leader to take the UK out of the European Union with a deal in place, but he said early signs for that “are not […]

The Daily Mail and the media in general is being ran by a ‘federalist class’ conspiring with the European Union, UKIP’s new leader has claimed. Despite a majority of newspapers taking a pro-Brexit stance, Richard Braine said that the press was controlled by a “traitor class” which is “conspiring with foreign powers” against Brexit. He […]

How does Boris Johnson’s evocation of Churchillian wartime spirit go down with out friends in Germany? PETER LITTGER tells us what it has been like to observe the change from Cool Britannia to Rule Britannia. The language used by the self-proclaimed “war cabinet” led by prime minister Johnson is so hostile that it could be […]

Young activists have gathered outside the Scottish Tory headquarters in Edinburgh to warn against the threat of a no-deal Brexit to the UK. Young activists from Our Future, Our Choice hold a protest outside the Scottish Conservatives HQ. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA Wire. – Credit: PA The demonstrators from anti-Brexit campaign group Our Future, Our Choice […]

Former YouGov president PETER KELLNER on the Telegraph’s questionable poll surrounding a no-deal Brexit, and how the public should have been asked to express a view. The front page of the Telegraph. Photograph: Twitter. – Credit: Archant Seldom does life so precisely resemble art. Today’s Daily Telegraph front page headline proclaims: “Public backs Johnson to […]

A new Led By Donkeys campaign is aiming to embarrass government ministers for their hypocrisy surrounding a no-deal Brexit. The first billboard unveiled in Salisbury features Vote Leave leader and cabinet minister Michael Gove warning MPs not to be blasé about the no-deal impact on farming. “I emphatically do not want to run the risks […]

The Welsh and Scottish governments are urging the UK to continue with the European student exchange programme, regardless of whether the UK leaves the EU with or without a deal. A joint letter has been sent to the UK education secretary and expresses concerns that with just 12 weeks until a possible Brexit scenario, no […]

A date has been set for a hearing of a court case which seeks to stop Boris Johnson pushing ahead with a no-deal Brexit without the approval of MPs. Judge Lord Raymond Doherty agreed to expedite the timetable for the legal challenge to take place, setting the date for the substantive hearing as Friday 6th […]

The spiritual home of white America’s very own music genre, Nashville is country music. But it’s not always been all about rhinestones and 10-gallon hats, as SOPHIA DEBOICK reports. Hall Willis, Ginger Willis and Tommy Hill stand next to The Louvin Brothers outside the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Picture: Getty Images – Credit: Getty Images […]

A cabinet minister has claimed that ‘Ireland is f**ked’ if Boris Johnson presses ahead with a no-deal Brexit. The government is hoping that the European Union blinks first before October 31st to avoid the UK crashing out of the EU, because the cabinet fears it will hit everyone involved, but especially Ireland. Speaking to The […]

The Telegraph has been accused of commissioning a ‘dodgy poll’ which claims that the public backs Boris Johnson proroguing parliament to implement a No-Deal Brexit. The right-wing pro-Brexit newspaper leads on polling from ComRes which claimed that more than half (54%) support proroguing parliament to deliver Brexit. But what the data shows is that when […]