Day: July 9, 2019

    Foreign Secretary and Conservative Leadership Candidate Jeremy Hunt has hit out at President Trump, calling him "disrespectful" towards the Prime Minister and the UK. Tweeting, Mr Hunt said: "@realDonaldTrump friends speak frankly so I will: these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our Prime Minister and my country. "Your diplomats give their private opinions to @SecPompeo and so do ours! You said the UK/US alliance was the greatest in history and I agree..." He added: "But allies need to treat each other with respect as @theresa_may has always done with you. "Ambassadors are appointed by the UK government and if I become PM our Ambassador stays." It comes as Mr Trump called Sir Darroch, the UK's US ambassador "wacky" and a "pompous fool" on social media on ...

    A government insider has accused Downing Street of allowing the creation of elephant traps for the next prime minister on Brexit. The accusation came as MPs prepared to vote on an amendment tabled by former attorney general Dominic Grieve which would effectively block Tory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson from suspending parliament to force a no-deal Brexit through. The insider said that No 10 could have stopped the vote - along with a failed cross-party attempt last month to seize control of the parliamentary agenda in order to prevent the UK leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement on 31 October if its focus was fully on giving Theresa May’s successor the best chance of delivering Brexit. This would effectively force the Commons to be sitting in the run-...