The Telegraph Beset by political dysfunction and chronic economic crisis, the EU is too dangerous to remain insideThe Telegraph - By Liam HalliganSince June 2016, the EU has been consistently portrayed as an all-conquering superpower, set against a flailing UK. The mainstream media narrative has been to contrast the EU’s unalloyed success and rosy
The TelegraphPolitics LiveThe Telegraph - By Tony DiverBoris Johnson is heading to Brussels for a crunch EU summit on Thursday as he tries to get a Brexit deal breakthrough across the line. After a roller coaster few days of political twists and turns when
The TelegraphLabour Party (UK) MP Louise Ellman quits Labour after 55 years, because Corbyn is 'not fit to serve as our Prime Minister'The Telegraph - By Anna MikhailovaDame Louise Ellman has quit the Labour party after 55 years as she said Jeremy Corbyn is “not fit to serve as our Prime Minister”. The veteran Labour MP said that under Mr Corbyn’s leadership “antisemitism
The TelegraphBoris Johnson Boris Johnson has youth on his side in opinion poll as 18-24 group pick PM over Jeremy CorbynThe Telegraph - By Harry YorkeBoris Johnson is more popular than Jeremy Corbyn among young people, a poll has found, as the Tory lead over Labour continues to grow. A YouGov survey published on Wednesday suggested that Mr Johnson beating
The TelegraphPolitics Fate of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal passes to MPs after the EU says agreement has almost been reachedThe Telegraph - By Peter Foster and Gordon Rayner and James CrispBoris Johnson's hopes of leaving the EU with a Brexit deal appeared to be in the hands of Parliament on Wednesday night after Brussels said an agreement was effectively in place. Donald Tusk, the European
The TelegraphBrexit This may be Leavers' last, realistic chance to achieve a proper BrexitThe Telegraph - By Allister HeathThey gambled and won by rejecting May’s awful deal. Now they should help the PM achieve the real thing We are about to find out whether the Brexiteers’ great gamble is going to pay off. They were told
The TelegraphSturgeon Former deputy leader of SNP says Nicola Sturgeon is wrong to call for indyref2 next yearThe Telegraph - By Auslan CrambA former deputy leader of the SNP has called on “whoever is in government” in Westminster to reject Nicola Sturgeon’s demand for a new Scottish independence referendum next year. In an apparent reference
The TelegraphBrexit How Boris Johnson redeemed Brexit and won over the DUP, Cabinet and backbenchersThe Telegraph - By Christopher Hope and James Crisp and Anna MikhailovaHaving all but secured a deal with the EU, Boris Johnson today turned his focus to winning over his critics at home as he attempted to rally support for his deal before Saturday's crucial vote. The Prime
The TelegraphChocolate The PM's 'great Brexit gamble' on sticky fudge over noble delay could be about to backfireThe Telegraph - By Sherelle JacobsNo 10 has dangerously miscalculated the Leaver public's attitude to compromise There is something over-eager about the idea of a “do or die deadline” – an already dangerous word smeared with a gratuitous
The TelegraphPolitics LiveThe Telegraph - By Harry Yorke and Peter Foster and James Crisp and Danielle SheridanDonald Tusk has said a deal is ready, but cautioned there are "certain doubts on the British side". The President of the European Council said that while yesterday evening he "was ready to bet that it’s
The TelegraphPolitics Labour MPs are not going to give Boris Johnson his Brexit triumphThe Telegraph - By Stephen BushOne of the mistakes that people like me made was to write off Boris Johnson’s chances of becoming Prime Minister. Why did we do it? Because we didn’t listen carefully enough to Conservative MPs. The average
The TelegraphBrexit Why hardline ERG Tories will end up backing Boris Johnson's Brexit dealThe Telegraph - By Camilla TomineyThe Brussels tunnel of Brexit negotiations is a dark place. Despite an intensive round of private talks between Boris Johnson and leading Brexiteer Tories, no one knows the precise nature of the deal Downing
The TelegraphCrime Prison condemned as squalid by inspectors becomes first to be shutThe Telegraph - By Charles HymasA prison condemned by inspectors as “squalid, demeaning and depressing” is to be the first to shut down in modern times. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the open prison, HMP Hewell, which currently
The TelegraphDavid Gauke Plans to abolish short term jail sentences ditched by new Justice SecretaryThe Telegraph - By Charles HymasPlans to abolish short term jail sentences have been ditched, the new Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has announced. Mr Buckland told the Commons justice committee that judges and courts still needed
The TelegraphShetland SNP spent more on Shetland by-election than Brexit referendumThe Telegraph - By Auslan CrambThe Scottish National Party spent more money trying to win a by-election in Shetland than it did on the Brexit referendum. New figures from the Electoral Commission revealed that the party spent £99,000
The TelegraphEuropean Union If victory comes, Brexiteers must resist the temptation to play furious Remainers at their own gameThe Telegraph - By Toby YoungIt remains to be seen whether Boris Johnson can persuade a majority of MPs to back his new deal on Saturday, but the mere possibility that he might succeed – and take us out with a deal on October 31 is
The TelegraphStephen Barclay Say what you like about Stephen Barclay, but he’s got something that no other MP can matchThe Telegraph - By Michael DeaconCompetition is stiff, but in my view there’s only one winner. The most boring voice in politics belongs to Stephen Barclay. It’s like listening to a fridge. A low, constant, unvarying background hum, quiet
The TelegraphPolitics Yet again, Remainer MPs are sneaking off to Brussels to undermine the will of the peopleThe Telegraph - By Fraser MyersRemainers should not be left to negotiate Brexit. That was surely the biggest lesson to draw from Theresa May’s short-lived premiership. For all the hollow soundbites of ‘Brexit means Brexit’, her instincts
The TelegraphBrexit Delaying Brexit would be the real nightmare scenario for our economyThe Telegraph - By Matthew LynnIf we don’t leave in the next couple of weeks, we face months, possibly years, of chaotic indecision Raising the minimum wage to £30 an hour. Shifting to a three day week with no reduction in pay. Doubling
The TelegraphPolitics Brexit backstop explained: Why is the Irish border so important?The Telegraph - By Peter Foster and Daniel CapurroFor Brexiteers, the Irish "backstop" has become a dirty word, handcuffing the UK to the EU’s customs union and taking away Britain’s chance to strike trade deals around the world for the foreseeable future.
The TelegraphBrexit What Boris meant by 'do or die' has become clear for MPs: do his deal or Brexit dies awayThe Telegraph - By Asa BennettAnyone hoping, encouraged by Dominic Cummings' public bravado, that ministers had found an ingenious way to get around the Benn Act in order to fulfill Boris Johnson's "do or die" desire for Brexit by
The TelegraphSexism Sorry, Amber Rudd, but it wasn't sexism that stopped Brexiteers voting for May's dreadful dealThe Telegraph - By Angela EpsteinI've never had much truck with post-millennial feminism. The way it spoils for a fight, tin hat at the ready, whenever a woman is called "love" in the office. All it does is make mockery of the real causes
The TelegraphPolitics Theresa May appears to accuse Boris Johnson of being preoccupied with headlines rather than finding solutionsThe Telegraph - By Danielle SheridanTheresa May appeared to accuse Boris Johnson of being more preoccupied with headlines and configuring “arresting phrasing” than delivering solutions to everyday problems people face. In what will be seen
The TelegraphPolitics Emmanuel Macron has continually played bad cop at Brexit. Now he could be Boris Johnson's unlikely allyThe Telegraph - By Henry SamuelIf Boris Johnson thinks he will be alone against 27 EU leaders at Thursday’s crunch summit in Brussels, he need only turn to his cross-Channel neighbour, Emmanuel Macron, for consolation. Indeed, if anything,
The TelegraphEuropean Union Two Irish borders may be the necessary sacrifice for the Brexit we Leavers needThe Telegraph - By John LongworthWe all know that the border issue in Ireland has been weaponised by Remainers in Britain, by the EU and its Irish cheerleaders in order to make it as difficult as possible for the UK to leave the EU. Selmayr
The TelegraphPolitics Leo Varadkar is staking his political future on protecting Ireland's red lines - now more than ever he will stand firmThe Telegraph - By John WalshThe Irish government has been consistent about its red lines since Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU began in earnest in August 2016: it will not accept a return to a hard border between the
The TelegraphPolitics To get Brexit done, Britain and Ireland must find the Wirral way forward togetherThe Telegraph - By Stephen LynchEven an ardent Brexiteer would smile wryly reading University College Dublin’s forthcoming November course on ‘Winning Negotiation Strategies’ in the City of London. Even Nigel Farage has publicly praised
The TelegraphPolitics DUP's demand for a veto over deal brings talks to standstill as consent not customs becomes crucial issueThe Telegraph - By James RothwellThe DUP appears to be the greatest obstacle standing between Boris Johnson and a Brexit deal, after the party warned the Prime Minister that “gaps remain” in his proposal. Party members were spotted re-entering
The TelegraphPolitics Brexit is a 'contagious disease' that risks infecting the Bloc, says Brussels, so a deal is a tantalising prospectThe Telegraph - By James CrispBrussels has regarded the state of British politics with growing horror and revulsion ever since the Brexit referendum. The EU sees Britain as polarised, aggressive and unreliable, with senior officials
