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A petition that urges the government to revoke Article 50 has soared past the two million signatures mark, making it the biggest on the petitions website. The Revoke Article 50 has more than twice as many signatures as all the pro-Brexit petitions combined according to Tableau. – Credit: Archant Analysis by the data analytics guru […]

Michael White on the week John Bercow added another twist to Brexit’s course. What shocked old Westminster hands was not that Speaker Bercow ruled against Theresa May putting ‘substantially the same’ ‘meaningful vote three’ before MPs. Or even that no one predicted he might, despite Labour’s irrepressible Chris Bryant helpfully setting out the precedents back […]

MP JANET DABY explains that now, more than ever, ethnic minorities need to have their voice heard. https://twitter.com/EM4PV/status/1109060315369693191 With just a week before we’re due to leave the EU, parliament is yet to agree a deal. The prime minister’s deal has been roundly been rejected by parliament on two occasions. There is even an attempt […]

STEVE ANGLESEY on the soggy throng of the pro-Brexit protest March to Leave ‘We were somewhere outside Barnsley when the drudge began to take hold.’ As opening lines go, it’s not quite up there with Hunter S Thompson’s original but it will do fine when someone finally comes to write Fear And Loathing On The […]

Theresa May ‘will not countenance’ revoking Article 50, despite a petition that wants to scrap Brexit reaching a million signatures. When asked for Theresa May’s view on the petition, a No 10 spokeswoman said May worried failing to deliver Brexit would cause ‘potentially irreparable damage to public trust’. She said: ‘The prime minister has long […]

Police have warned Brexiteers planning ‘go slow’ protests on the UK’s roads that they could face prosecution. According to organisers the demonstrations aim to ensure the UK leaves the EU on March 29 by causing gridlock on motorways and A roads using a convoy of slow-moving vehicles, targeting between 30 and 40 locations over the […]

An anti-Brexit campaigner has described a viral petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked as ‘wildfire’ and accused the prime minister of posing a danger to democracy. Campaigner Dr Mike Galsworthy appeared on BBC News, to discuss the viral anti-Brexit petition that is approaching one million signatures. Photo: BBC News – Credit: Archant A […]

Members threaten to quit Arts Club after Michael Gove given free membership, Telegraph’s hypocrisy on Islamophobia exposed, and how the BBC’s Chris Morris is ‘trying’ to make colleagues aware that public opinion on Brexit has shifted. There are rumblings of discontent at the Arts Club in Mayfair over its decision to grant honorary membership to […]

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 Belfast, the hometown of TV and radio presenter Colin Murray. But who will win over the audience and critics like Fighting Talk – and who will be very quickly forgotten […]

Nigel Farage has been asked for an update on how his pro-Brexit march as he spoke on television from Brussels. Nigel Farage (right) at Easington Colliery during The March to Leave protest which set off from Sunderland. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA. – Credit: PA Wire/PA Images The Brexiteer, who turned out for approximately an hour for […]

Labour MP Stella Creasy was left in despair during a Brexit debate with Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi, demonstrating her frustration by banging her head on the desk. The Walthamstow MP appeared on the BBC’s Politics Live alongside the minister for children and families. She pleaded with Zahawi to ‘just make it stop’ as he once […]

The UK may be divided over the best policy for Brexit but the prime minister’s speech appears to have brought the country together – in opposition to Theresa May herself. Thousands of Twitter users have been venting their frustrations on the hashtag #NotOnMySide after her latest televised address that she would seek to extend the […]

Andrew Adonis on why the ‘striking and unpredictable’ speaker John Bercow has made it possible for parliament to hold government accountable. John Bercow is one of the few heroes of Brexit. He has made it possible for parliament to do its job of holding the government accountable to the people, after decades when the subservience […]

The public responded to Theresa May’s statement, where she claimed she was ‘on their side’ in trying to deliver Brexit, by signing a petition that calls for the process to be stopped altogether. Demand for the Revoke Article 50 petition crashed the government’s website. Photograph: Archant. – Credit: Archant As the prime minister attempts to […]

Saturday is the day to show we are taking this joke no longer. ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on why we all need to turn out for the People’s Vote march. Ever the pessimist, as we gathered in the pub after the big march last October, which was bigger and better than any of us had dared hope […]

Britain faces a generational struggle to relocate itself to the heart of the European project. With relations and reputation at rock bottom, what better time to start the fightback? asks JOHN KAMPFNER Tens of thousands demonstrated in a ‘March For Europe Event’ on July 2, 2016 in London, England. The march is in protest at […]

The atrocity in New Zealand should prompt a reckoning for the Islamophobia which has infected our mainstream media, says Liz Gerard. Charles Hilary Moore, an English journalist and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator. Photo by Eamonn McCabe/Getty Images – Credit: Getty Images Labour is afflicted by anti-Semitism; […]

France, Spain and Belgium are ready to veto a Brexit extension. Theresa May has written to European Council President Donald Tusk requesting exit day on March 29 be postponed until June 30. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has warned an extension will not be granted without a ‘concrete plan’ from May for ‘something new’. Now, […]

The leader of the new Brexit Party has resigned over a series of racist tweets. Catherine Blaiklock – who set up the party with the support of former UKIP leader Nigel Farage – said the comments, which have since been deleted, fell ‘well short of what is expected in any walk of life’. A HOPE […]

A video of The Who’s Brexit-backing lead singer Roger Daltrey dismissing its effect on bands touring Europe has been shown up. The Who singer Roger Daltrey was not impressed when Sky News asked him about Brexit. pic.twitter.com/AWwX1ezQfk— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 16, 2019 A video of Daltrey, who says he is ‘anti-Brussels’, went viral this […]

Brexiteer MP Nadine Dorries has circulated a message on a Tory group Whatsapp announcing that the Conservative politicians are ‘the idiots’. Nadine Dorries sent this message on Whatsapp. Photograph: Twitter. – Credit: Archant Dorries was forwarding a message she had received from the chairman of her local Conservative association, who had felt a change in […]

A German company has sent the Queen more than 1,000 rolls of luxury toilet roll in preparation for a no-deal Brexit. Ninety packs of 16 rolls each were sent to Her Majesty at Buckingham Palace by Düsseldorf-based company Hakle. Rather than graciously accept the gift from our European friends, the Palace rejected them through fear […]

Emily Maitlis has been named as the new presenter of BBC’s current affairs programme Newsnight, as the programme moves to an all-female line-up. Maitlis will take over the lead anchor role on the BBC Two show, taking over from 25-year presenting veteran Kirsty Wark. Canadian-born Maitlis has acted as a political editor and presenter on […]

Well-known names from the entertainment, sporting and business worlds are sponsoring coaches from their home towns to help campaigners take part in the ‘Put It To The People’ march in London. The growing list of sponsors includes actor Jason Isaacs (Liverpool); broadcaster Joan Bakewell (Manchester); advertising executive and film producer Trevor Beattie (Birmingham); comedian and […]

A majority of British voters now favour an extension of the Brexit deadline but just one in 10 believe any extra time should be used to revive Theresa May’s deal, according to a new YouGov poll. The findings come on the eve of a crunch meeting of the European Council where the prime minister is […]

An expected delay to Brexit means that Britain might not leave the EU on Friday 29 March 2019 after all – ruining the ‘Great British Brexit Calendar’. The front page of the Daily Express this week. Photograph: Express/Twitter. – Credit: Archant The Daily Express has been fuming about how politicians have behaved in recent weeks […]

Theresa May is seeking a short Brexit delay amid suggestions of a Tory backlash if the government requested a longer extension. In a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk, Theresa May is believed to be asking for a three-month extension to June 30 in the hope of securing approval from MPs for her Withdrawal […]

A crowdfunder has been launched to refund the ’40-odd’ people remaining on Nigel Farage’s pro-Brexit march. Nigel Farage announces the Leave Means Leave protest from Sunderland to London. Photograph: Twitter. – Credit: Archant The Just Giving page has been launched by The New European editor Matt Kell,y in response to the miserable turnout for the […]

The son of US President Donald Trump has blamed ‘elite’ politicians for preventing Brexit taking place as promised on March 29th. Donald Trump Jr said that EU withdrawal negotiations, which could have been completed in months, had been allowed to stretch out for years because Prime Minister Theresa May failed to take his father’s advice. […]

Considered by many to be the finest goalkeeper to play the game, CHARLIE CONNELLY looks at the life of Lev Yashin. Of all the positions on the football field the goalkeeper is mythologised the most. Goalkeepers are thinkers, standing alone, protecting the goal as the last line of defence, diving, catching, punching, pacing, watching, judging; […]

An ad for a high-cost loan which used uncertainty around Brexit to encourage consumers to stockpile food has been banned for being socially irresponsible. A January 24 email from Cash On Go, trading as Peachy.co.uk, a financial services company specialising in short-term loans, stated: ‘No one really knows what’s going on with this whole Brexit […]

A man has spent more than £600 on a shop in preparation for a no-deal Brexit – buying more than 144 rolls of toilet paper and 50 tins of food. Juliet East took to Twitter to share a picture of the supermarket haul, which was conducted by her husband Tony Smollett, and totalled £658.29. East, […]