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 ...

The proportion of students in Wales getting A* at A-level is at its highest since the top grade was introduced in 2010. Grades at A* and A were also up slightly to 27%, with 9.1% at the very highest grade. Wales outperformed all regions of England and Northern Ireland at A*. Education Minister Kirsty Williams said it showed the top ...

Former Chancellor Philip Hammond has accused the PM of trying to wreck the chance of a new Brexit deal, by making demands the EU could never accept. In a Times article, Mr Hammond said a no-deal Brexit would be “a betrayal” of the 2016 referendum result. He told the BBC he was “confident” that Parliament “has the means” to express ...

A legal challenge to try to prevent Boris Johnson shutting down parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit has begun in a Scottish court. A group of MPs and peers wants the Court of Session in Edinburgh to rule that suspending parliament to make the UK leave the EU without a deal is “unlawful and unconstitutional”. The prime minister has ...

Since becoming prime minister just over a month ago, Boris Johnson has made a number of law-and-order announcements affecting England and Wales. But what exactly is being proposed? What it means: There are currently 123,171 police officers in England and Wales, down from 143,000 in 2010, when the Conservatives came to power and Theresa May became home secretary. So if ...

Fatema Miah:   Eid Saeed, Eid Mubarak and Hajj Mubarak to Worlds Al Hujjajs.  Arafat today Saturday the 10th and Eid tomorrow Sunday the 11th  of August 2019. This is the last lunar calendar Dual Hujja Islamic month.  Millions of Muslims from across the world goes to perform pilgrim one of  the  pillars of Islam, the Hajj. Ya Allah accept my ...

By Shofi Ahmed: Books are written and films made with the perspective that it’s a machine-generated dream world we live in. Often demonstrated by a popular cultural meme red pill and blue pill. It’s a metaphor representing a choice between the red pill and blue pill. The red pill represents an uncertain future— but it would free from the enslaving ...

Jeremy Corbyn has urged the UK’s most senior civil servant to intervene to prevent a no-deal Brexit happening during a general election campaign. The Labour leader is concerned that the UK could leave the EU on 31 October, while a campaign is ongoing and before a new government is elected. He has written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill saying ...

Boris Johnson has instructed government departments to devise a new fast-track visa system to attract leading scientists to work in the UK. The Prime Minister plans to remove the cap on so-called tier one visas for highly skilled migrants. This cap currently restricts numbers to 2,000 a year. Mr Johnson also wants to make the system easier and quicker to ...

Cabinet minister Michael Gove says the EU “seem to be refusing to negotiate with the UK” over a new Brexit deal. Mr Gove, who is responsible for no-deal planning, said he was “deeply saddened” that Brussels was, in his words, saying “no, we don’t want to talk”. It comes after the EU said UK demands to remove the Irish backstop ...