[ad_1] LONDON A week from today, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will leave the European Union on Jan. 31 at 11 p.m. After the most tumultuous period in post-war British politics, Brexit will finally happen. When it does, however, it will not be with a bang, but a whimper. The government…
[ad_1] Labour leadership candidate Emily Thornberry has denied “sneering” at Brexit voters. The shadow foreign secretary was confronted in a TV interview with Andrew Neil with a video in which she appeared to laugh as a fellow Labour frontbencher said that people who did not hate Brexit “have something wrong with them”. But she insisted…
[ad_1] The cost of implementing the high-speed railway connecting London with Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds could reach £106bn, according to a leaked, government-commissioned review. High Speed 2 (HS2) was originally allocated £56bn, and current HS2 Ltd chairman Allan Cook revised the estimated costs to between £81bn and £88bn in October. But the draft report, seen…
[ad_1] UK EV startup Arrival secures $110 M investment from Hyundai & Kia Even as electric vehicles continue to take the consumer market by storm, automakers are now shifting focus to delivery vehicles to give EVs a boost. In fact, delivery vans are becoming increasingly considered as the “trojan horse” for EV technologies to take…
[ad_1] Lisa Nandy has said she would maintain key pledges from Labour’s election manifesto, including the abolition of university of tuition fees and the denationalisation of Royal Mail. In her first major television interview, the Wigan MP, one of five contenders vying to replace Jeremy Corbyn, also said she opposed a second Scottish independence vote,…
[ad_1] The latest headlines in your inbox The Mail on Sunday has argued that publishing a letter sent by the Duchess of Sussex to her father Thomas Markle was in the public interest. Meghan is suing the newspaper and its parent company Associated Newspapers over alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of…
[ad_1] A new portrait of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prince William, and 6-year-old Prince George was released Friday by Buckingham Palace to mark the beginning of a new decade. The image, taken by photographer Ranald Mackechnie, marks the second time a portrait has been issued of Elizabeth, her son the Prince of Wales, grandson the…
[ad_1] And so ends another quiet year in politics… 🙃 I ended 2018 by describing it as a year that ‘delivered some of the strangest, most bizarre, comical and concerning political moments of recent history.’ I think that maybe, just maybe, 2019 might have topped that. Ok, fair, we didn’t see the UK Prime Minister walking on stage…
[ad_1] Singer Ellie Goulding has said that witnesses to a crash between a lorry and car who she saw filming the incident instead of trying to help were acting “instinctively” because of social media. Last week she came to the rescue of a driver whose Volkswagen GTi was being pushed sideways along one of London’s…
[ad_1] For the First Time, U.K. Says Yes … of auditors in this area,” said Donald Brydon, the former Royal Mail Group Ltd. chairman who led the review. It's the … [ad_2] Source link