Acting Ciudadanos spokesperson, Inés Arrimadas has written to other party leaders to discuss her proposal to form a grand coalition government, which would see the PSOE, Partido Popular, Ciudadanos and Navarra Suma form a Government, at the expense of Unidos Podemos. The letter asked for the meeting after yesterday’ swearing […]
Jeremy Corbyn has apologised again for incidents of anti-Semitism in Labour. The party leader said sorry twice in 2018, but was criticised for refusing to do so four times in a recent interview with the BBC’s Andrew Neil. Asked repeatedly on ITV’s This Morning by Phillip Schofield to apologise, Mr Corbyn […]
Ofcom has decided not to investigate a Conservative Party impartiality complaint about a Channel 4 special. The party complained ahead of the Climate Debate on 28 November about C4’s intention to “empty chair” the Conservatives with an ice sculpture. It criticised the channel’s refusal to accept Cabinet Minister Michael Gove […]
The leak of documents which Labour claim show the NHS is on the table in trade talks with the US resembles a former Russian disinformation campaign, experts have said. Last week, Jeremy Corbyn brandished the documents at a press conference and claimed they showed that officials in the UK had spoken to […]
Donald Trump has promised to stay out of the UK general election as he visits for the NATO summit – but said Boris Johnson will do a good job. Mr Trump said he backed Brexit, and even predicted it, as he spoke to reporters alongside NATO’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg. […]
The fourth gota fría weather event this year struck eastern Spain yesterday, causing freak flooding and road closures. The worst rainfall has been concentrated in the northern coastal region of the Costa Blanca. The Arenal beach area of Javea has been particularly badly hit, with road closures and Policía Local […]
New figures have revealed illegal immigrants crossing the Straits of Gibraltar can buy a ticket on a jetski for as little as €300. The new data from Europol’s European Migrant Smuggling Centre shows passage on a rubber dinghy can be bought at a bargain price of just €100. The shock […]
The international community’s forum to fight climate change, COP25, began yesterday in Madrid. The summit aims to complete the implementation of the Paris Accord, ratified by nearly 200 countries in 2015. The pact sought near-global unity in measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and contain global warming to below 2° […]
The Conservatives are publishing plans to improve the UK’s border security after Brexit. If the party wins the general election, it says it will introduce automated exit and entrance checks. It would also make it harder for people with serious criminal convictions to enter the UK from EU countries. Labour […]
The UK Independence Party has launched a “Brexit and beyond” manifesto with a commitment to leaving the EU on 31 January 2020 without a deal. Interim leader Pat Mountain said the PM’s withdrawal agreement would keep the UK “shackled to Brussels”. The party also wants to cut net immigration to […]
Jeremy Corbyn has told Sky News that convicted terrorists should “not necessarily” automatically serve their full prison sentences. The Labour leader’s comment comes in the wake of Friday’s London Bridge terror attack, which left two people dead. The attacker, 28-year-old Usman Khan, was a convicted terrorist who was wearing an electronic tag […]
