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Officials dismiss hopes that May could break deadlock by negotiating with states directly European officials have poured cold water on hopes that Theresa May could negotiate Brexit with other EU leaders in September to break the deadlock over Britain’s departure. Diplomatic sources have rejected suggestions that May could hold direct talks on Brexit with the 27 other EU heads of ...

Party says leader had been attending memorial to Palestinian airstrike victims Labour has hit out at what it said were “false and misleading” claims about Jeremy Corbyn’s visit to the Palestinian cemetery in Tunis and insisted he had attended an annual memorial for victims of an Israeli air attack on the Palestine Liberation Organisation headquarters in October 1985. The party ...

The man being held on suspicion of terrorism after the Westminster car crash has been named as Salih Khater by government sources. The 29-year-old British citizen, originally from Sudan, is being questioned in south London.   Police have been searching three addresses in Birmingham and Nottingham as part of their investigation.   Three people were injured after the vehicle hit ...

Group says leave campaign broke electoral law, making 2016 vote unconstitutional British expatriates have launched a fresh legal challenge against the 2016 referendum, arguing that the result has been invalidated by the Electoral Commission’s ruling on leave campaign spending. The judicial review against the prime minister, Theresa May, has been submitted to the high court in London by the UK ...

Jobless rate declines to 4% in the three months to June, the lowest since the winter of 1975 Pay growth in Britain has slowed to its weakest in almost a year despite a fall in the jobless rate to a fresh 43-year low and the biggest annual drop in workers from the EU since modern records began more than two ...

Government unveils £50m fund but admits no new money has been made available for it A £50m fund to provide homes for people ready to leave homeless hostels or domestic abuse refuges in England has been announced by ministers, as part of a wider strategy aimed at eliminating rough sleeping by 2027. The scheme is a response to the growing ...

London, Aug 14 : London police say that a car has crashed into barriers outside the Houses of Parliament and that there are a number of injured. Police said that the driver of car, a man, was arrested at scene after the incident which took place at 7:37 a.m. Tuesday in London. No other details were immediately available, but Metropolitan ...

Businesses are struggling to fill vacancies as a result of drop in new EU workers, says report Companies are suffering from a “supply shock” as fewer EU citizens come to the UK, and companies struggle to fill vacancies, according to a survey of 2,000 employers. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said the number of applicants per vacancy ...

Islamophobic incidents have increased after Johnson’s burqa remarks, says MCB Britain’s largest Islamic organisation is writing to Theresa May to demand Boris Johnson be subject to a full disciplinary inquiry, saying no one should be allowed to victimise minorities with impunity. The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said Islamophobic incidents had spiked since Johnson’s controversial article was published a week ...

Ex-Cameron aide and Muslim leaders join condemnation over the former foreign secretary’s burqa comments A Tory peer and former aide to David Cameron accused Boris Johnson of “moral emptiness”, casual racism and “courting fascism” as division over the former foreign secretary’s comments about Muslim women threatened to develop into a full-blown crisis for Theresa May and her party. The comments ...