Day: December 10, 2018

    The Prime Minister was set to address the Commons at 3.30pm after the emergency call with her ministers on Monday morning. Just minutes after a Downing Street spokesman insisted the vote would go ahead, the Bloomberg news agency and the BBC cited sources as saying that Tuesday's vote had been cancelled. Speculation had mounted that the vote on the Withdrawal Agreement could be postponed or scrapped in the face of an open revolt by Conservative MPs and fierce opposition from other sides of the House.

    Four out of five Jews in the UK believe antisemitism is a major problem in British politics, the worst record within the EU, and nearly a third are considering leaving Britain out of fears for their safety, according to the world’s largest survey of Jewish people. The report from the EU’s agency on fundamental rights has found antisemitic hatred and discrimination on the rise across Europe, with attitudes in France, Germany, Belgium and Poland said to be the most disturbing. The survey of 16,300 Jewish people in Europe found that almost a third avoid attending events or visiting Jewish sites because they do not feel safe. In France, 95% of Jews believe antisemitism is a very or fairly big problem, up from 85% when the poll was last run six years ago. And nine out o...