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Bournemouth beach enjoy the record-breaking temperatures It has been the hottest late August bank holiday weekend ever – with temperatures reaching 33.3C (91.94F) in west London. The Met Office confirmed the new record temperature, which was set at Heathrow. It beats the previous record of 31.5C (88.7F), set in 2001 and again at Heathrow. The hot temperatures are expected to ...

Trump said Boris Johnson ‘was the right man for the job’ of delivering Brexit President Trump has promised a “very big trade deal” with the UK, saying its departure from the EU will be like losing “an anchor round the ankle”. Mr Trump was speaking after a breakfast meeting with Mr Johnson at the G7 summit in Biarritz in France. ...

Boris Johnson is meeting Emmanuel Macron in Paris for Brexit talks, with the French president saying the UK’s vote to quit the EU must be respected. But he added that the Ireland-Northern Ireland backstop plan was “indispensable” to preserving political stability and the single market. The backstop, opposed by Mr Johnson, aims to prevent a hard border on the island ...

There has been a slight increase in the GCSE pass rate and the percentage of top grades this year, despite concerns about the difficulty of exams. The pass rate edged up to 67.3% in England, Wales and Northern Ireland – up 0.4 percentage points on last year. The percentage of papers given a top grade (7 or A and above) ...

Johnson and Angela Merkel will hold a working dinner on Wednesday evening Boris Johnson has arrived to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, where he is expected to reiterate his call for the Irish border backstop plan to be scrapped. The pair shook hands outside the Chancellery in Berlin, as protesters nearby shouted “stop Brexit”. The PM has said the arrangement ...

Photo: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks with staff during a visit to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, south-west England, Monday Aug. 19, 2019. London, Aug 19 : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday dismissed the notion of recalling Parliament from its summer break after leaked government documents warned of widespread shortages and border delays in the event ...

No 10 has said rules allowing EU nationals to live and work freely in the UK will end in the event of a no-deal Brexit at the end of October. Theresa May’s government had considered extending freedom of movement to 2021 or allowing EU citizens to stay in the UK for three months before having to apply for a longer ...

The Tory party has “failed” the UK and a general election is the “change of direction the country needs”, Jeremy Corbyn has said. The Labour leader said the UK is facing a Brexit “crisis” and vowed to do “everything necessary” to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal. It comes after a leaked government report warned of food ...

has pledged to lead the UK out of the EU by 31 October with or without a deal Boris Johnson’s approach to Brexit is “reckless” Sinn Féin has said, after a leaked dossier warned of a hard border and food shortages if there is no deal. The party’s deputy leader Michelle O’Neill accused the prime minister of treating the Northern ...

Jeremy Corbyn has urged the leaders of the other opposition parties and Tory rebels to install him as caretaker PM in order to stop a no-deal Brexit. If he wins a no-confidence vote in the government, the Labour leader plans to delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum. But Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said she ...