There are at least 14 contests taking place over the weekend in Conservative-held seats.
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Newslinks for Monday 4th November 2019
Speaker election hit by row over timing “Candidates to become Speaker of the Commons have questioned the legitimacy of John Bercow’s… Read more »
The Englishman’s Betrayal
In the wake of Johnson’s deal, the Government must balance its plan for Northern Ireland with strengthening “our precious Union” – all four parts of it.
Newslinks for Wednesday 25th September 2019
Johnson hits back at the judiciary after Supreme Court defeat… “Boris Johnson said the Supreme Court’s verdict that his suspension… Read more »
Newslinks for Friday 26th June 2019
New Prime Minister makes his Dispatch Box debut “He was at the Dispatch Box for a blistering two and a… Read more »
Newslinks for Sunday 21st July 2019
EU countries’ bid to woo Johnson and avoid ‘no deal’ “EU countries are secretly wooing Boris Johnson in a bid to… Read more »
Newslinks for Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Hammond warns both contestants that they risk losing the Tories’ ‘reputation for fiscal responsibility’ ‘Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned the… Read more »
Dinah Glover: The Prime Minister lacks empathy, negotiates badly – and doesn’t lead. The Conservative Party needs to get her out now.
The final humiliation is now being delivered upon us in the form of the European elections – elections to an institution that we voted to leave three years ago.
Bruce Newsom: May’s strategy for extending Article 50 is unconstitutional
The Prime Minister has made no effort to consult Parliament about her agreement with Brussels – but it requires changes to British law.
Newslinks for Monday 25th March 2019
Brexit 1) May ‘defies calls’ to name departure date “Theresa May has resisted pressure to set a date for her… Read more »
Newslinks for Wednesday 20th March 2019
Ticking clock 1) May will ask for a short Brexit extension, after Cabinet rebellion against a longer one ‘Theresa May… Read more »
The Vienna Convention is a very, very slender ladder down which to retreat
The precedents seem unfavourable to Brexiteer ambitions and it isn’t even obvious that it applies to UK-EU relations at all.
The verdict of Cash’s ‘Star Chamber’ on the UK-EU Political Agreement: full text.
The panel, comprising legally-trained Conservative and DUP MPs as well as outside experts, set out their full legal reasoning for rejecting the deal.
Our survey. Over three in four Tory activists are against extension.
The thinking of most of the 78 per cent will be that Britain should leave the EU on March 29 as expected.
And it’s a thumbs-down for the revised deal from Cash, Raab and the committee of eight lawyers. No surprises there.
Which presumably means, since Dodds is one of the eight, that the DUP takes the same view.