Admission exposes Theresa May’s promise that ‘nothing is agreed until everything is agreed’ to be an empty one, government told Britain will be legally bound to pay its £39bn Brexit divorce bill before the details of a future EU trade deal are agreed, a minister has admitted. MPs will be asked to […]
The union boss wants “to get a fair hearing” for working people as she insists Britain “just can’t afford a ‘hard’ Brexit”. The leader of Britain’s trade unions has revealed she has only met Theresa May once and has had many more meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. TUC general […]
The prominent Brexiteer, who leads a group of Conservative backbenchers, has delivered a warning shot to the prime minister. Influential Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has confessed to “doubts” about Theresa May and questioned whether the government really wants to leave the EU. The prominent Brexiteer, who is favourite to replace […]
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said he “probably needs” a plane to help him travel the world and promote the UK’s interests. Cabinet members can use the RAF Voyager for official business but Mr Johnson said it “never seems to be available”. Asked by reporters if he would like a […]
Philip Hammond has told business chiefs their Brexit fears can be resolved without staying in the customs union. The chancellor rejected claims by the CBI president that continued membership was a “plan A” option “already out there” to minimise disruption to trade. While the UK’s post-Brexit customs options were “works […]
SIXTH-FORMERS can breathe a little easier this summer – once again, the minimum grade in their general university aptitude test to qualify for a student grant will be the pass mark of 50%. Former education minister José Ignacio Wert changed the rules a few years back, so that even though […]
A team of around 50 firefighters continue to search for two builders lost among the rubble of a block which collapsed in Madrid on Tuesday. Both the missing contractors were working on the fifth floor of the apartment building in the Chamberí neighbourhood, at number 19 of the C/ General […]
Ex-premier of Catalonia will remain free on bail while judges reach a final opinion on his extradition to Spain In a preliminary decision, a court in the northern German state of Schleswig Holstein has once again rejected the charge of rebellion brought by the Spanish judiciary against ousted Catalan premier […]
FORMER Partido Popular (PP) president of the Valencia region, Eduardo Zaplana, has been arrested on corruption charges. Sr Zaplana, who was also mayor of Benidorm before becoming the minister for employment, is accused of stashing €10.5 million in tax havens – gained from illegally charging companies which received public contracts.
Police have brought down a band of criminals who manipulated cash machines to trap credit cards and steal thousands. The fraudsters used a method known as the ‘Lebanese trap’ in which they tampered with cash machine card slots to make people think their cards had been swallowed, police sources said. […]
Spanish judges and prosecutors stopped work Tuesday in an unprecedented strike to call for greater judicial independence and better working conditions. Seven associations of judges and prosecutors said in a joint statement they had called the strike to show their “deep discomfort” with the “neglect and abandonment” of the justice […]
Spain’s Oscar-winner Javier Bardem warned Tuesday that the country risked a return to the era of dictator Francisco Franco as concerns mount over freedom of expression with artists probed or jailed for voicing their opinions. “It seems to me that being able to (legally) punish (an opinion) is a setback […]
