Senior Norwegian politicians and businesses figures have rejected Norway-plus, the increasingly touted British cross-party plan for the UK to leave the EU but join Norway in a free trade trade area inside the EU single… Read More
England
Voter ID trials in England face legal challenge
A legal challenge could scupper the second stage of trials of a scheme requiring people to show ID before they vote. The case is being brought by Neil Coughlan, a 64-year-old voluntary worker from Braintree,… Read More
MPs win right to meaningful vote on Brexit plan B | Politics | The Guardian
Backbench MPs led by #Dominic Grieve have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the government, in an effort to ensure parliament can seize control of what happens in the crucial days after Theresa May’s #Brexit deal… Read More
Refugee families allowed to enter UK after 20 years at RAF and army bases
Six refugee families who have been stranded on a sovereign British army base in Cyprus for more than 20 years have been granted indefinite leave to enter the UK for permanent residence by the British… Read More
Brexit: senior minister could be suspended over legal advice
A cabinet minister is at risk of being suspended from parliament and missing next week’s crunch Commons vote after Labour and the DUP accused ministers of holding parliament in contempt for failing to publish the… Read More
Labour plans to give customers of big firms vote on boardroom pay
Customers of Britain’s 7,000 biggest companies would be given the right to vote on the pay of top executives under plans for a clampdown on boardroom pay being considered by Labour. A report commissioned by… Read More
May to warn MPs that rejecting Brexit deal would put UK ‘back to square one’ | Politics | The Guardian
Theresa May will take the high-stakes battle to save her Brexit plan and her premiership to all four nations of the United Kingdom this week after warning MPs on Monday that failing to back the… Read More
Most doctors fear hospitals won’t cope this winter
More than half of doctors fear that their hospital will be unable to cope this winter, according to a poll which also found fewer than a third had been involved in any planning for the… Read More