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BORIS Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have traded their final PMQs blows before the election today as both leaders bickered over Brexit and the NHS. The UK is set to go to the polls on December 12 after MPs backed the PM’s calls for a general election last night. The bill …

… Varadkar had said: “The queen will still be the queen, the point will still be the pound, people will still post letters in Royal Mail red letter post boxes”. Source link

Boris Johnson’s call for a general election in December is both a political and logistical gamble. Here are some potential challenges that organisers of a pre-Christmas election could face. Winter weather A carefully choreographed mid-December campaign could be wrecked by gales, heavy snow, ice and floods, ruining travel plans and …

The production of the new 50p Brexit coins are said to have been put on pause as the likelihood that the UK will not leave the EU by October 31 recedes. EU ambassadors have agreed that an extension to the UK’s membership is needed. The Prime Minister insisted Britain could …

Plans to release THREE MILLION Brexit Day 50p coins are ‘paused’ by the Treasury after the EU says the UK will not leave on October 31 The Treasury confirmed that manufacturing had been placed in hiatus  The EU said today it has agreed to a further Brexit delay past October …

SIR – There has never been a greater opportunity to achieve a stonking Conservative majority. The Prime Minister has strained every sinew to get Brexit done and is rightly popular because of it. Add to that the people’s desire to rid those green benches of MPs who have done everything …

brexit countdown_bgCreated with Sketch. Boris Johnson will push for a general election if the EU follows Donald Tusk’s advice to grant another Brexit delay, a No. 10 source revealed last night after MPs rejected the Prime Minister’s three-day timetable for his Brexit bill. MPs handed the fate of Brexit back …

Not long ago, Boris Johnson compared Brexit to the eternal torment of Greek god Prometheus having his liver pecked out by an eagle. Today, that torment could be over. Regardless whether Johnson prevails in the Commons this afternoon, there is no doubt about the magnitude of his achievement.  Almost all …

DUP Deputy Leader Nigel Dodds has criticised Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for saying people in the north will still be able to post letters in red post boxes after Brexit. Mr Varadkar was speaking today about the DUP’s refusal to back the British government’s Brexit deal over “customs and consent issues …

Flurrybridge Enterprise Centre is ground zero for Brexit on the island of Ireland.  Situated in South Armagh, just yards north of the border, it is home to businesses that sustain almost 300 livelihoods, many of them by shuttling goods along the east coast artery between Belfast and Dublin.  Travelling over …