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Watch: John Bercow lays into Andrea Leadsom
Today, the Speaker John Bercow dealt a harsh blow to the government’s Brexit strategy after announcing that he would block…
David Lammy is wrong about white saviours and Comic Relief
Comic Relief have reported an £8 million plunge in year-on-year donations following the recent row ignited by Labour MP David…
Has Bercow just destroyed May’s last chance to pass her deal?
No. 10’s strategy to win over the DUP and the Brexiteers to Theresa May’s deal in time for a third…
John Bercow is right to block a third vote on May’s deal
I don’t know how religiously John Bercow reads Coffee House, but I am pleased that he has taken the advice…
Full list: the Tory MPs who have switched to backing May’s deal
Despite suffering two historic losses in the House of Commons, it seems inevitable that Theresa May will bring her Brexit deal…
The UK’s legal right to leave the backstop is stronger than you’d think
As Sir Stephen Laws QC, Richard Ekins and I explained in a paper published by Policy Exchange this Friday, the…
May should pledge to resign – it’s not too late to save her legacy
Allies of Theresa May have long talked about how she wants her legacy to be about more than Brexit. But…
Britain could be heading for a nine-month Brexit delay
Nigel Dodds of the DUP has not yet agreed a deal with Theresa May to bring his troop of ten…
Watch: Fiona Onasanya pleads her innocence
Where is Fiona Onasanya, and will she fight to remain as an MP? This has been the question on everyone’s…
Is Theresa May being removed?
Only last night, it was reported that Tory rebels – including a former cabinet minister – were refusing to back…
Boris Johnson ‘read riot act’ in front of MPs for child abuse comments
Boris Johnson was given an angry lecture by a minister in the voting lobbies about his comments that money had…
Would the EU reject an Article 50 extension request?
Any extension to the Article 50 process would have to be unanimously agreed by the EU 27. This has led…
The dark extremism of the ‘extremely online’
The killing of 49 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand, was a very modern massacre. Pacing through the Mosque, the…
May under pressure to set an exit date to get her deal over the line
Is this the week Theresa May sets out an exit date for her departure from No. 10? There is hope…
Theresa May’s offer to the DUP
The prime minister’s frantic last attempt to persuade Northern Ireland’s DUP to back her third meaningful vote on Tuesday involves…
Sunday shows round-up: Brexit on 29 March is ‘physically impossible’, Hammond says
Philip Hammond: Leaving the EU on 29 March ‘now physically impossible’… This morning, the Chancellor sat down with Andrew Marr…
Emmanuel Macron has saved himself from political crisis – for now
Back in December, Emmanuel Macron was a man on edge. His poll numbers were spiralling down the toilet; hundreds of…
No matter what terrorists say, Islam and the West are not at war
‘Kill Angela Merkel. Kill Erdogan. Kill Sadiq Khan’ were the demands of the white supremacist terrorist who killed 49 innocent…
Why is it only privately educated women who get to lecture people about ‘oppression’?
Scarcely a week passes without a privately educated young woman with a successful career in journalism publishing a book about…
Why great minds get Brexit wrong
A besetting sin in this process has been over-cleverness. As so often in our history, the ‘stupid’ people are right.…
Can the Republican Party finally win over minority voters?
Washington, DC Republican strategists have long complained about how, every election, the Democrats mobilise minority groups against them. Now they’re…
Why Theresa May might not hold another Brexit vote
Although the prime minister wants to hold another ‘meaningful vote’ on her Brexit plan next week, it is by no…
How the police should deal with far-right terrorism
As New Zealand comes to terms with the most deadly terrorist attack ever carried out on its soil, leaders from…
John Bercow should block a third vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal
Not for the first time the Speaker of the House of Commons appears to hold the Brexit process in his…
Nick Boles quits his local party
The relationship between Tory MPs who want a softer Brexit and local Conservative members has been strained for some time.…
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