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May set to mount climbdown over her Brexit plan
16Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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May set to mount climbdown over her Brexit plan

    Theresa May could be seriously damaged by a defeat Theresa May is set to mount a dramatic climbdown over her Brexit plan to avoid an embarrassing defeat at the hand of a powerful group of Brexiteers. The government may adopt a series of amendments to the customs bill put forward by Jacob Rees-Mogg which are designed to impose strict conditions on the PM in negotiations with the EU. It comes after Theresa May produced a plan which would keep the UK closely tied to Brussels' rules on goods and food. The amendments are backed by arch-Eurosceptics including Jacob Rees-Mogg, Sir Bernard Jenkin, Priti Patel and Iain Duncan Smith who are furious at the Chequers plan. Sir Bernard Jenkin told the World at One the Chequers plan was dead, with opposition from both wings of t...
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UK unveils new Tempest fighter jet to replace Typhoon
16Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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UK unveils new Tempest fighter jet to replace Typhoon

    The defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, has unveiled plans for a new RAF fighter jet, the Tempest, which will eventually replace the Eurofighter Typhoon. Speaking at the Farnborough airshow, Williamson unveiled a model of the sixth-generation fighter jet the Ministry of Defence (MoD) expects to emerge from its new combat air strategy, designed to maintain the UK’s status as a so-called tier one military power after Brexit. This is a strategy to keep control of the air, both at home and abroad, to remain a global leader in the sector, Williamson said. He said he wanted the Tempest to be flying alongside the existing fleet of Typhoons and the US-made F-35s by 2035. The government said it would spend £2bn to develop the aircraft between now and 2025, using money set...
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EU immigration to Britain falls to five year low
16Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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EU immigration to Britain falls to five year low

    The number of immigrants moving from the European Union to Britain fell by a quarter to a five-year low last year. According to the first data for a full calendar year since the Brexit vote an estimated 101,000 more people arrived in the UK from the bloc than left in 2017. It is the lowest for any 12-month period since the year to March 2013, when it stood at 95,000. Overall net long-term migration, including arrivals and departures of non-EU nationals, was about 282,000 in 2017. The figure was up by 33,000 on the year before, but statisticians attributed the rise to an unusual pattern in estimates of non-EU student immigration for 2016 which research indicates was an anomaly. Nicola White, of the ONS's Migration Statistics Division, said: With around 280,000 mor...
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Trump reveals the Queen’s views on Brexit in latest interview
16Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Trump reveals the Queen’s views on Brexit in latest interview

    US President Donald Trump has revealed details of his conversation with the Queen and hailed the 92-year-old monarch an incredible woman in a bombshell interview with Piers Morgan. Mr Trump met with the Queen on Friday at Windsor Castle as part of his working visit to the UK. He told Piers Morgan during an interview on Air Force One, that the Queen had described Brexit as a complex problem before adding that he thought she is an incredible woman. She is so sharp, she is so beautiful, when I say beautiful inside and out. That is a beautiful woman. Following his UK visit, the president is now preparing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He confessed to Mr Morgan, in the interview for Good Morning Britain, that although he didn't know Putin well, he thou...
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News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London
16Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant is being constructed with taking full security measures. The Premier said this while addressing a gathering on the occasion of the First Concrete Pouring Ceremony of the Second Unit of the Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna yesterday. Visiting Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Yury Ivanovich Borisov paid a call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant office in Pabna yesterday. During the meeting, the PM said, her government has the plan to construct more nuclear power plant as the sources of renewable energy. Russian Deputy Prime Minister assured of cooperating Bangladesh in various fields for mutual benefits. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen to support her government for the contin...
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British PM warn there will be no Brexit
15Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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British PM warn there will be no Brexit

    British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned there may be ‘no Brexit at all’ because of attempts to wreck her controversial blueprint for Britain’s departure from the European Union. She claims that rival Commons revolts by warring pro- and anti-Europe Tory MPs threaten to sabotage hopes of winning a post-Brexit deal for Britain. And in a hard-hitting message to Brussels, the Prime Minister says she will not budge an inch on the proposed Brexit deal she agreed with Cabinet Ministers at her Chequers summit. Writing in today’s Mail on Sunday, Mrs May dramatically raises the stakes in her bid to win support for her proposal to make a success of leaving the EU. Her fighting talk comes after US President Donald Trump enraged Downing Street last week by claiming that Mr...
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School exclusions put children at risk of gang grooming
15Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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School exclusions put children at risk of gang grooming

    Schools that unofficially exclude children to hide them from exam league tables are fuelling gang violence, the children’s commissioner for England says. Anne Longfield said she has begun an investigation into the practice of taking children off-roll without formally excluding them because they are viewed as difficult to manage and may drag down the school’s results. The office of the commissioner, an independent position backed by statute, is conducting an urgent analysis of confidential government data, including exclusions and police records, to establish how many off-roll children are drawn into gangs. Longfield said it was vital for the government to give clearer advice to schools on handling children at risk of joining gangs, after receiving a letter from a M...
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Blaze close to Heathrow put out
15Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Blaze close to Heathrow put out

    Firefighters have successfully doused a grass fire the size of four football pitches close to Heathrow Airport. Five hectares of grass and scrubland caught light in Feltham at 4pm on Saturday and burned for nearly five hours before it was brought under control at 9.43pm the same evening. It took almost 100 firefighters and 15 fire engines to subdue the blaze, and a spokeswoman for London Fire Brigade said the long stretch of dry weather was the probable cause of the fire. Fourteen horses had to be moved to a place of safety. Passengers tweeted photos of the smoke, but a spokesman for the airport said no flights were affected and both runways remained in operation.
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Trump should raise death of Amesbury victim with Putin
15Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Trump should raise death of Amesbury victim with Putin

    The grieving son of Amesbury Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess has called on Donald Trump to raise his mother’s death with Vladimir Putin. The US president, who is on the last day of his visit to the UK, is due to meet the Russian leader in Helsinki on Monday. Ewan Hope, 19, said he wants his mother’s killer, or killers, to get what they deserve. I don’t share Donald Trump’s politics and I’ll never be a supporter of his, but I would like him to raise mum’s case with the Russian president, he told the Sunday Mirror. We need to get justice for my mum. The Government has blamed Russia for the failed nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March. Ms Sturgess, 44, and her partner Charlie Rowley fell ill in Amesbury,...
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May’s grand plan has left her stranded in no woman’s land
15Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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May’s grand plan has left her stranded in no woman’s land

    Like a desiccated woman who is crawling across a scorching desert and thinks she has spotted a source of moisture, for a brief moment Theresa May tasted the sweet tang of relief from her miseries. She had about 72 hours of experiencing what it feels like to be a prime minister who is in control. This time last week, she had launched her Brexit plan and it had not instantly exploded on takeoff. EU leaders gave the blueprint a polite, if highly guarded, reception. No one flounced out of the Chequers meeting, saying they could no longer sit in her cabinet. Even critics expressed some backhanded praise for the way in which Mrs May choreographed the corralling of her ministers. Opponents revived the old charge, an accusation not heard against her since she blew last yea...
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