Boris Johnson has been accused of trampling on devolution and parliaments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland after the House of Lords rejected his Brexit plans. The SNP ’s Ian Blackford clashed on independence at Prime Minister’s Questions and said “powers were being grabbed back to Westminster and devolved parliaments ignored. Blackford said: “Devolution is […]
Donald Trump today claimed the EU makes it ‘impossible’ to trade as he praised Boris Johnson and said the UK is in a ‘good position’ to get a strong post-Brexit deal from the bloc. The US President delivered a savage attack on Brussels as he spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, […]
Peers have approved Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill, but not before making changes to the legislation. The House of Lords voted in favour of five amendments over two days of debate, leading the new government to its first parliamentary defeats. The changes included backing the Dubs amendment to protect the rights of […]
The Northern Ireland Assembly has passed a motion withholding consent for the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. The motion put forward by the Executive Office asked MLAs to consider parts of the Brexit bill that affected Northern Ireland. It passed without a formal division on Monday. All 18 Westminster […]
Boris Johnson has suffered a defeat in the House of Lords as peers backed an amendment to his Brexit legislation. The upper chamber backed a cross-party amendment to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill on the issue of EU citizens’ rights, by 270 votes to 229. It calls for EU citizens lawfully […]
British businesses say a lack information about the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the EU is still preventing them from planning for the future. The Institute of Directors (IoD) found that 55% agreed they “will only be able to make planning and investment decisions with certainty when we understand our future […]
The Welsh Assembly has joined the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly in rejecting the Brexit bill. It means all of the UK’s devolved law-making bodies have voted against the withdrawal agreement legislation. A total of 35 assembly members, from Labour and Plaid Cymru, opposed the law, while 15 […]
ONLINE gambling has shot up by 78% and people are spending twice as much money as they did five years ago. In 2018, almost 1.5 million people enjoyed a flutter online, a figure that represents 3% of the population in Spain. Of these, 300,000 were new users, according to the […]
A DRIVERLESS mini-bus powered by electricity is about to be piloted as intra-campus student transport at Madrid Autonomous University (UAM). It has six seats and space for a further six standing passengers, and will travel a total circuit of 3.8 kilometres around the Cantoblanco campus.
MW it’s been revealed the Spanish State has more people on it’s payroll than the number employed in the private sector. Including the employed, the unemployed and state pensioners, the government is responsible for salaries and social payments to 700,000 people more than all of those who are employed in […]
Spain’s coalition government have announced a plan to give civil servants a two percent pay raise backdated to Jan. 1. Regional Policy Minister Carolina Darias said the pay hike, which unions had requested prior to the announcement of PSOE Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s cabinet, will be introduced as soon […]
