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UK Brexit chief says no deal better than being tied to bloc

Birmingham, Oct 1 : Britain’s chief Brexit minister is warning the European Union, and his divided party, that the country will leave the bloc without a deal rather than accept close adherence to its rules and obligations. Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab will tell Conservative Party members on Monday that if the EU tries to “lock us in via the back ...

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Brexit: Boris Johnson refuses to rule out Theresa May challenge

  Boris Johnson has repeatedly refused to rule out challenging Theresa May for the Tory leadership as he warned of “political and economic disaster” if she stuck by her Brexit strategy. Asked four times by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to rule out a challenge, the ex-foreign secretary said: “My job is to speak up for what I believe in.”  Mrs ...

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‘A complete crisis’: 2,000 school leaders rally against cuts

Headteachers gather in central London to protest against shrinking education budgets An estimated 2,000 headteachers and senior school leaders converged on Downing Street to deliver what organisers called an unprecedented protest at the damaging effects of shrinking budgets on their schools and colleges. After a rally at Parliament Square, the headteachers marched down Whitehall to hand in a letter to ...

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UK nationals would suffer under skills-based immigration, EU tells Javid

Exclusive: EU’s Brexit negotiator warns home secretary of tit-for-tat response The home secretary, Sajid Javid, has been warned by Brussels that the UK’s own nationals will suffer if it introduces a post-Brexit immigration system that discriminates between European citizens according to their skills. The policy is likely to be unveiled at the Conservative party conference, which begins on Sunday. Following ...

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London fire brigade chief denies she should have expected Grenfell

Dany Cotton says fire was as unexpected as ‘space shuttle landing on Shard’, even though brigade knew of cladding risks The London fire brigade commissioner, Dany Cotton, has claimed the ferocity of the Grenfell Tower fire was so unexpected that it was like “the space shuttle landing on the Shard”, even though she conceded that the brigade knew about the ...

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EU steps up plans for no-deal Brexit as Labour stance alarms capitals

Fears in Europe that party’s goal of unseating PM could lead to chaos of ‘cliff-edge’ exit The EU is intensifying its preparations for a no-deal Brexit amid heightened fears in European capitals that Jeremy Corbyn will order his MPs to vote down any deal struck in Brussels, a leaked document reveals. Labour’s stated goal to reject Theresa May’s deal in ...

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Jeremy Corbyn calls for election if MPs vote down May’s Brexit deal

Labour leader adds to pressure on PM in conference speech that skewered Chequers plan Jeremy Corbyn has told Theresa May that Labour MPs will vote against her Chequers plan unless she is willing to accept his proposal to keep Britain in a customs union and protect consumer standards and workers’ rights after Brexit. The conditional offer came near the end ...

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UK Labour opposition party vows to reject May’s Brexit deal

London, Sept 25 : Britain’s main opposition Labour Party announced Tuesday it will reject Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed divorce deal with the European Union when it comes to a vote in Parliament and might support a new Brexit referendum. One official said May’s government was offering the country a choice between “really bad and even worse.” If Britain ...

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May to press Rouhani to free jailed UK-Iranian woman

British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York Tuesday, where she will press him to release a British-Iranian women imprisoned in Tehran, a senior government official told reporters. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation — the media organisation’s philanthropic arm — was arrested at Tehran airport on April 3, 2016.  She ...

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Labour conference: deselecting MPs to be made easier

Conference is taking place in Liverpool Labour’s annual conference has voted to make it easier for local party members to deselect sitting MPs. Until now, Labour MPs only faced a reselection contest if 50% of a constituency’s local branches and affiliated unions voted for it in a so-called “trigger ballot”. Delegates in Liverpool voted for that threshold to be reduced ...

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