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Games developers have warned MPs that immigration policy after Brexit could hit the UK games industry hard. Still from trailer for Not Tonight, anti-Brexit game by No More Robots. Games developers have warned the DCMS about the impact of Brexit on the games industry. Picture: No More Robots – Credit: No More Robots During a […]

Labour peer ANDREW ADONIS says his party is the only option on the ballot paper that can make a second referendum happen. The Holy Trinity – three in one and one in three – is dense yet utterly vital to Christian wellbeing. Labour’s Brexit Trinity, following its Brexit policy statement on Tuesday, has similar properties […]

Ministers defended the now-cancelled no-deal Brexit ferry contracts as ‘an insurance policy’ for taxpayers in the face of a barrage of criticism at Westminster and demands for an apology for the ‘unnecessary expense’. Transport secretary Chris Grayling awarded contracts worth a total of more than £100 million last December to three firms – Brittany Ferries, […]

Police are reviewing YouTube remarks made in videos by controversial UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin, also known as the vlogger Sargon of Akkad. In a 2014 clip that forms part of a file passed to Wiltshire police, Benjamin was in conversation with YouTuber Justicar about the age of sexual consent. Benjamin said: ‘I can be quoted […]

Theresa May has sacked Gavin Williamson as defence secretary, following an investigation into the leak of information from a National Security Council meeting, Downing Street has announced. The inquiry by cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill was launched after information from secret discussions about Chinese telecoms firm Huawei’s involvement in the development of the UK’s 5G […]

Another PMQs where Brexit barely warranted a mention. Little wonder most MPs seemed to stay away. Theresa May speaking at prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons (Pic: Parliament) – Credit: Parliament The extension of Article 50 seems to have lifted a cloud over British politics, the media and public. With a parliamentary recess […]

A Labour MP who claimed that Labour is ‘not a Remain party’ has now expressed concerns that it is losing Remainers after a series of member resignations. It had been hoped that the leadership would provide a more positive line on a People’s Vote as the country heads to the European elections, but instead the […]

Ferry contracts made by the Department for Transport in preparation for a no-deal Brexit are reported to have been cancelled at an estimated cost of £50 million. Three firms had received contracts worth over £100 million to run extra services in the event of a no-deal scenario. The cancellation suggests the government no longer believes […]

Labour Party members have been taking the scissors to their membership cards and posting them to social media after the party leadership endorsed a pro-Brexit manifesto. Done! Cut up my membership card to @UKLabour I'm not voting Labour until there is a #peoplesvote #labourmeansleave pic.twitter.com/Ldx8t1JGZk— Unto This Last (@UntoThislast2) April 30, 2019 Twitter user Alastair […]

Theresa May gives fewer straight answers than any previous Conservative prime minister in recent times, an academic has claimed. Her evasive performances, in which she often simply ignores the question, have arguably played an important part in the Brexit crisis, claims professor Bull of the University of York. Studying May’s broadcast interviews, professor Bull compared […]

A campaign group has claimed that ‘far fewer’ people are registered to vote than the electoral roll shows, with an estimated 7.9million eligible voters still not on the register. Research commissioned by Best for Britain across the UK shows that ‘hundreds of thousands of people’ are missing from the electoral register in every region. The […]

Jeremy Corbyn’s car was stopped by anti-Brexit campaigners as he tried to leave the meeting which confirmed his pro-Brexit manifesto for the European elections. MORE: Subscribe to our newspaper for £13 and get a FREE Bollocks to Brexit mug MORE: Nigel Farage REFUSES to publish a Brexit Party manifesto until after EU elections MORE: EU […]

Labour’s latest fudge over Brexit has been described as ‘mealey-mouthed’ by People’s Vote campaigners, while one MP admitted that Remainers are now unlikely to vote for the party. MP Jess Phillips has created controversy with party campaigners on social media after she told ITV News’ Acting Prime Minister podcast that Labour will get a ‘drubbing […]

A Labour MP has laid into the UKIP leader for his continued defence of a candidate’s use of rape ‘jokes’ and racial slurs. UKIP leader Gerard Batten bizarrely described Carl Benjamin’s tweet that he ‘wouldn’t even rape’ MP Jess Phillips as a ‘remark of non-intent’. Appearing on BBC’s Politics Live, Batten said that the 2016 […]

Labour’s National Executive Committee have signed off the European election manifesto with Jeremy Corbyn supporters claiming victory as the party presses forward with a pro-Brexit plan. The party has claimed that Labour is bringing together both Leave and Remain supporters with its manifesto for the European elections. It says that, it will be ‘fully in […]

With just one week to go until the deadline to register to vote for European elections, there has been little sign of a surge in applications. Nearly 135,000 people submitted applications in the seven days to April 29, according to government figures. This was up on the previous seven days – which included the four-day […]

Reader ALEX ORR on the referendum in Switzerland that has since been overturned. Now the can has been kicked even further down the road, it is intriguing to note that the result of a nationwide referendum in Switzerland has been overturned. The poll, held in February 2016, asked the country’s voters whether married couples and […]

Change UK has held its first campaign rally in London claiming that Labour will ‘never’ oppose Brexit, and that Remain voters shouldn’t be fooled by the party’s ‘contortions’. At the Change UK rally/press conference there has been time for about a dozen questions but *none* of the people picked have been from the media. All […]

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage says he has not changed his mind on Brexit – despite previously advocating ‘doing what the Norwegians do’, and now saying such a model would leave us worse off. The outspoken Brexiteer had regularly talked about the Norway option as a means of leaving, and toured television and radio studios […]

A YouGov poll has asked people to say whether various parties are pro-Brexit or anti-Brexit, and some of the results are surprising. Labour today decide whether or not they will back a 2nd referendum on a Brexit deal. Today we found much public confusion on Labour's Brexit stance:% of Brits who think Labour is...Anti-Brexit - […]

Andrew Adonis has claimed his controversial Facebook post on Brexit had been ‘misunderstood’ by fellow Remain supporters. The Labour MEP candidate, who has been a leading campaigner for a People’s Vote, angered many allies last week with his statement which many critics interpreted as endorsing a ‘Labour Brexit’, without the need for a second referendum. […]

Change UK candidate Rachel Johnson had the perfect retort for Piers Morgan when he once again disputed the premise of a People’s Vote. Johnson, a TNE columnist, said that her party had been formed because both of the main parties on Brexit were ‘in hock to their ideological extreme ways.’ But before the anti-Brexit campaigner […]

The BBC has come out fighting after a former culture secretary joined Brexiteer MPs to claim that the corporation needed to be more pro-Brexit. MP John Whittingdale joined politicians from the Tories, UKIP, Labour and DUP to write a letter claiming that the BBC’s coverage of Brexit is ‘perverse and skewed’, and that the organisation […]

Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys has been criticised for displaying ‘dinosaur’ characteristics as he interviewed former Labour leader Ed Miliband about tackling climate change. https://twitter.com/sukh_ss/status/1123131301794590720 Listeners accused the veteran broadcaster of displaying ‘climate change denial’, ‘belligerence’ and ‘bizarre hectoring’ in the ten minute interview which aimed to question Miliband about his new cross-party group to […]

The Tory grassroots are intending to force an ’emergency summit’ on Theresa May’s leadership. A meeting of 800 constituency Conservative chairmen and women and senior activists is expected to take place after the local and European elections, after enough of them signed a petition to hold an emergency general meeting. According to The Sun, they […]

Labour’s deputy leader walked out of a shadow cabinet meeting because they were not given a copy of the European election manifesto. Watson, a People’s Vote campaigner, had hoped to see an advanced copy of the manifesto before it was put to Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC). He is one of many pro-EU voices within […]

The former Taoiseach leader Bertie Ahern said that in conversations with Jacob Rees-Mogg about the Irish backstop, the Brexiteer admitted he had ‘no idea what the border was’. Taoiseach’s Bertie Ahern. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA. – Credit: �2004 Credit:Topham / PA The revelation was made to gales of laughter at the 2019 Women in Media conference […]

The tall, blond, tanned adventurer who travelled the Pacific and became a spokesperson for global issues There isn’t much to commend Larvik, a small town on the southwestern coast of Norway, to anyone from outside the area. Spread around the shoreline with a view out between headlands to the Skagerrak, it’s the kind of place […]

While the charts were filled with much that was bland, 1948’s standout hits displayed technical innovation and an inspired slice of weirdness. NEW YORK – CIRCA 1949: Singer Patti Page poses for a portrait circa 1949 in New York City, New York (Photo by James Kriegsmann/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) – Credit: Archant The war may […]

Top Girls is a play that fails the test of time, writes TIM WALKER. The National Theatre rightly sees that it has a responsibility to keep alive old and more modern classics and that’s presumably why it has chosen to revive Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls. When it was first presented almost 40 years ago, it […]

The leader of a grassroots pan-European political party is to stand in the EU elections as a candidate for London. Andrea Venzon, is set to compete as the party’s eighth candidate Europe-wide. Brexit was the trigger that prompted Venzon to found Volt, he explained. ‘Pro-Europeans are suffering in the UK, and we have one message […]

Theresa May is trying to avoid having to hold a Queen’s speech until the Autumn because there are worries it may not pass. The current parliamentary session will be the longest in post-war history because of Brexit, and Theresa May’s lack of leadership. It has prompted the prime minister to consider putting off the opening […]