Day: September 19, 2018

    It is time for the nation’s beleaguered remainers to give sincere and heartfelt thanks to Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the other Tory hardliners trying to scupper prime minister Theresa May’s deal with the EU. These zealots, the praetorian guard of Leave, now represent the greatest single threat to the Brexit they have worked so ferociously to secure. Campaigners for a second referendum should offer up a nightly prayer for the continued health of these diehards. A friend ought to take them aside and explain: You’ve won, you dummies. If your heads were not so deeply in the weeds you would see that your oppositionalism is risking the huge gains you have won. The enemies of the people, the saboteurs all the intemperate epithets slung at those deemed to be jeopard...

    Three people were struck by the vehicle outside the Al-Majlis Al-Hussaini Islamic centre in Cricklewood, north west London, as it sped away following a row, Scotland Yard said. Two men in their 20s suffered minor injuries, and a man in his 50s is in hospital with a serious leg injury, police said. A statement from The Hussaini Organisation, which runs the centre, described the incident as a suspected premeditated Islamophobic attack. Officers were called to Oxgate Lane, near Edgware Road, at around 12.35am on Wednesday. Occupants of the car, inside a private car park at the Islamic centre, were told to leave by security at around 12.20am for anti-social behaviour, drinking and apparently using drugs, the force said. Some of the crowd reportedly inflicted minor da...