Day: June 23, 2018

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said the country demands a full British Brexit  not a bog roll Brexit that's soft, messy and never ending. The Foreign Secretary warned Theresa May that she needs to be tough and fulfill the mandate of the voters. They don't want a half-hearted Brexit, the Foreign Secretary wrote in the Sun. They don't want some bog roll Brexit soft, yielding and seemingly infinitely long. Mr Johnson acknowledged the NHS funding package announced last week - which equates to more than the £350m per week which he promised during the Referendum campaign - saying Theresa May had honoured a key Vote Leave pledge. He said Brexit had defied the 'doomsters' who had predicted economic collapse after Britain's departure from the EU. He also fired a warning sho...

    Donald Trump is due to visit the UK on 13 July. Theresa May has ample reasons to cancel Donald Trump’s visit to the UK next month, Jeremy Corbyn has said. The Labour leader said the escalating trade dispute between US and the EU, as well as the US treatment of child migrant detainees separated from their parents, were reasons enough to rescind the invitation to the US president. Donald Trump needs to understand that declaring a trade war by putting tariffs on aluminium and steel and then building up a series of tit-for-tat series of retaliations, in which the US retreats in on itself and starts a trade war with the rest of the world, is going in a very bad and dangerous direction, Corbyn said. Interestingly, it’s been downgraded time after time from a state visit t...