WATCH: May’s Dash for a Deal 7) “We needed legally binding backstop pledges and “today, we have agreed them.”
She says that a new target date of December 2020 for its end has been agreed by both parties to the talks.
WATCH: May’s Dash for a Deal 3) Starmer says that the Withdrawal Agreement hasn’t changed
He adds that May suggested that it would be amended – and that it won’t be under the terms she is now agreeing.
WATCH: May’s Dash for a Deal 2) Lidington claims that legally binding changes have been made to the backstop
There is a joint legally binding instrument on the Withdrawal Agreement. But what does the Attorney-General think?
WATCH: May’s Dash for a Deal 1) She arrives in Strasbourg
She is greeted by Juncker at the door of the Winston Churchill building of the European Parliament.
WATCH: Happy Commonwealth Day, says Hunt
“The UK has an unbreakable commitment to our 2.4 billion friends across the world in the Commonwealth family.”
WATCH: Starmer says three-month extension of Article 50 would be ‘doable’
“But the most important thing, I think, is: what we’re going to use this period for.”
WATCH: McDonnell ‘hopes’ Labour will get a “get a clean bill of health” from antisemitism investigation
The Shadow Chancellor was being asked about a possible intervention by the human rights watchdog.
WATCH: Hunt warns that failing to leave the EU would be ‘devastating’ for the Tories
“They’re going to say: there was a Party that promised to deliver Brexit, we put them into Number Ten, and they failed.”
WATCH: Davis says deal is ‘dreadful’ on ‘many, many counts’, but is ‘rescuable’
“The negotiating strategy has gone wrong, and it has gone wrong largely because the Government has abandoned the one thing you can do, which is to walk away.”
WATCH: Raab – “None of the challenges and problems we have now get any better if we extend”
The former Brexit Secretary doesn’t see how a deal rejected by record margins passes on the second try without substantial changes.
WATCH: Hancock says the NHS must play its ‘full part’ in stopping knife crime
“When these young people, these children, arrive in hospital, that is a moment when you can intervene and try to tackle the problem.”
WATCH: Female Conservative MPs reveal the abuse they receive online
…and contrast it with their achievements in office.
WATCH: Hammond – Knife crime is important “but there are many other demands” on limited funds
“My job is to make sure that in dealing with an issue like this we use public resources in the most effective way.”
WATCH: Philp describes the “difficult and painful process” of controlling public spending
The party’s Vice Chairman for Policy was being pressed on police cuts.
WATCH: This Lent, we will be ‘shining a spotlight on a number of cases of persecuted Christians thought the world,” says Hunt
The Foreign Secretary’s “message of solidarity” on Ash Wednesday, the first day of the season.