Day: October 31, 2018

    Boris Johnson accepted a £14,000 all-expenses-paid trip from the Saudi Arabian regime from shortly before journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed. The former foreign secretary visited Jeddah on September 19 for a three-day visit, according to The Sun. A source close to Johnson said the visit was made to discuss his long-standing campaign of improving education for women and girls. He has denounced the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and continues to believe that the UK must hold Saudi Arabia to account for this barbaric act the source added. A Turkish prosecutor today said Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul as part of a premeditated killing on October 2. A statement from chief Istanbul prosecutor Irfan Fidan’s office added that ...

    Uncertainty over Brexit has seen a huge surge in applications for Irish passports by Britons with family connections to the Republic. There were around 45,000 applications in the first half of 2018, almost the same as for the whole of 2015, the year before the EU referendum. The current rules state that an applicant is only entitled to an Irish passport if they are an Irish citizen. Irish citizenship can be acquired by birth or descent or through naturalisation. If you are the spouse or civil partner of an Irish citizen you can apply for citizenship through naturalisation if you meet certain conditions. Neale Richmond, chairman of the Brexit committee in the Irish senate said there had been a year-on-year increase in applications since the vote to leave the EU. At...