Month: October 2019 News

Brexit deal: Boris Johnson’s Halloween deadline in peril as MPs revolt against breakneck timetable to ratify

Britain’s ‘declaration of independence’: Boris Johnson publishes his 110-page Brexit Withdrawal Bill (with 124 pages of explanatory notes) just hours before MPs start to debate it – as he bids to push it through Parliament in THREE DAYS

Scottish judges delay a decision on Boris Johnson’s Brexit extension tactics

John Bercow slammed by Tories for thwarting Boris Johnson’s bid to ensure EU deal is delivered by Halloween

How much of Johnson’s ‘great new deal’ is actually new?

Erdoğan threatens to ‘crush the heads’ of Kurdish fighters refusing to withdraw

‘I hope to God the Turks don’t come. They are monsters’

Erdogan wanted war in Syria to bring stability to Turkey – it may bring instability to both

Syria invasion: Turkey’s rebel rabble accused of atrocities

Syria ceasefire ‘broken’ as Turkey and Kurdish forces clash less than 48 hours after temporary peace deal

Hong Kong protests: bring back app or risk ‘complicity’ in repression, Apple told

Brexit march: Labour’s most senior figures break with Jeremy Corbyn to declare it is now a Remain party

Boris Johnson’s allies offer Nigel Farage a cloak-and-dagger route into the House of Lords

Conservatives ‘try to buy off Nigel Farage with a peerage’ amid fears over the threat he poses in an election

PM ‘behaving like a spoilt brat’ after sending unsigned letters to EU asking for extension

Humiliated Boris Johnson sends unsigned extension letter to EU

Brexit: Johnson sends unsigned letter asking for delay, and second arguing against it

Boris Johnson fights ‘Brexit wreckers’ with three defiant letters to EU

Boris Johnson refuses to sign Brexit extension request and instead sends photocopy, saying: ‘This is not my letter, it’s Parliament’s’

Boris Johnson sends the EU THREE letters: One (not signed by him) asks to delay Brexit beyond Oct 31, the second makes clear the first is from Parliament – not the Government, and the third urges Brussels NOT to grant an extension

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