It’s been a long while since I last wrote for these pages and much has happened since. Yet somehow the UK’s economy is the worst performing in the G-20, above only Russia’s — not much to boast of. Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, provoked Brexiter ire a couple of months ago when he pointed out that in 2016 …
Former Labour MP Gisela Stuart savaged Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit plan today as she stood alongside Boris Johnson and Michael Gove to urge Leave voters to back the Tories at the general election. Ms Stuart, chairman of Vote Leave during the EU referendum in 2016, reunited with campaign stalwarts Mr Johnson and Mr Gove and warned voting for Labour on December …
Editor’s Note: Jane Merrick is a British political journalist and former political editor of the Independent on Sunday newspaper. Instead, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, unleashed some extraordinary criticism against the Prime Minister on the opening day of the EU summit, calling her negotiating strategy “nebulous and imprecise” – which enraged May – and making it clear …
London CNN — British Prime Minister Theresa May is relying on her fellow Conservative Members of Parliament to back her during Wednesday’s no-confidence vote, but her battle to retain the leadership of the Tory party will be weighed against a host of potential suitors. The 54-year-old called the Prime Minister’s proposed Brexit deal “a legal lobster pot in which we …
