Michael Gove is being lined up to be Britain’s new global trade supremo responsible for talks with both the European Union and the United States Michael Gove could lead trade talks with European Union and the United States Seen as a ‘reward’ for loyalty during struggles in Parliament during October Comes despite bitter fallout with … Read more
Brussels hatches plot to KEEP the UK under EU control past 2020 with Eurocrats claiming more time is needed to strike a new trade deal Boris Johnson has pledge to have an EU trade deal in place by December 2020 He has ruled out any further transition period extension past then But EU politicians are … Read more
‘People didn’t trust him to put our country first’: Former northern Labour MP Anna Turley tears into Jeremy Corbyn over his ‘anti-Western world view’ saying he was poison on the doorstep Anna Turley castigated the opposition leader after lost her Redcar seat Working class Cleveland constituency voted Tory for the first time ever She attacked … Read more
EU leaders tells Boris Johnson to obey their rules if Britain wants a quick trade deal after leaving on January 31 The European leaders have welcomed Mr Johnson’s decisive election victory But they said the Prime Minister must agree to a ‘level playing field’ with the EU It came as EU leaders formally fired starting … Read more
People’s Vote campaign is scrapped as organisers accept a second Brexit referendum is not going to happen under Boris Johnson Open Britain, which runs campaign, conceded fresh vote is no longer possible The group will instead rebrand to hold the government to account over Brexit Comms manager Tom Baldwin said there was no chance of … Read more
This wasn’t just a defiant reaffirmation of the EU referendum result, it was a damning repudiation of those who have spent the past three and a half years trying to Stop Brexit. It also served as a timely reminder that there is life outside the Westminster bubble, that social media is not the real world. … Read more
Paying the price: All 18 defectors who left their parties amid Brexit turmoil lost their seats in Boris Johnson’s landslide election victory The former Tory minister and ardent Remainer Anna Soubry lost her seat Also losing seats his seat was the former attorney general Dominic Grieve Former justice secretary David Gauke also lost the whip … Read more
Boris Johnson is set to use his thumping majority as a mandate to dramatically shake up his cabinet, rewarding the election’s star performers and firing those whose threatened to derail the campaign. The Prime Minister, who has vowed to plow ahead with his new administration immediately, will waste no time reshuffling his top team to … Read more
Boris Johnson‘s colossal victory in the General Election was splashed over front pages across the world today, with one French newspaper now opting for an unusual mock-up of him as the Queen for its coverage. Liberation, a daily newspaper in France, has edited the Prime Minister’s face on to an image of the Queen for … Read more
Boris Johnson pledged to unite the country and heal its Brexit divisions last night after securing a stunning election victory over Labour. Speaking on the steps of No 10 after visiting the Queen, the Prime Minister said it was time to bring ‘closure’ to the three-and-a-half years of toxic argument over Britain’s departure from the European … Read more
At 8.30am sharp every day, Conservative Campaign HQ reverberated to the relentless beat of the Eighties hit The Final Countdown by rock band Europe. Staff had voted for it as their anthem because the lyrics conveyed the message they were pumping out every day: Get Brexit Done. ‘We’re leaving together… It’s the final countdown…’ It … Read more
Boris Johnson today vowed to use his thumping 80-seat majority to ‘transform this country’ with the raft of eye-catching policies he pledged during the election campaign. The Prime Minister’s bolstered tally of 365 Conservative MPs will allow him to ram through legislation which would have previously been derailed by opposition lawmakers. Brexit – the cause … Read more
Unite leader Len McCluskey blames Labour’s humiliating defeat on Corbyn’s ‘Metropolitan’ manifesto and failure to respect the Brexit referendum Staunch Corbynite blamed ‘slow motion’ decision to back a second referendum And the union leader turned his fire on Labour’s failure to tackle anti-semitism Red rose was annihilated across its traditional heartlands in yesterday’s election By … Read more