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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament. Picture date: Wednesday March 22, 2023.
RISHI SUNAK’S post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were backed by MPs today, but two ex-PMs and other anti-EU hard-liners rejected it, exposing ongoing divisions in the Tory Party.
Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and the European Research Group (ERG) of Tory MPs voted against the so-called Stormont brake — a key element of the Windsor Framework signed by Downing Street and Brussels last month.
But it passed by 515 votes to 29, with the backing of other Tories, Labour and the SNP.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
MARTIN HALL passes time in the sanguine company of a traditional conservative, recalling their disastrous governments