Brexit weekly: 5 things

You can’t always get what you want Mick Jagger said it: you can’t always get what you want. Unfortunately, this week is proving very few in the Conservative Party can get what they need. Let’s start with Theresa May. What the Prime Minister needed this week was for...
Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit weekly: 5 things

There’s power in a Union Theresa May’s Brexit strategy suffered a blow this week as a cross-party alliance of Labour, Liberal Democrats, crossbenchers and Tory rebels in the House of Lords voted for an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill, requiring the...
Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit weekly: 5 things

Now, on to the Lords After more than 80 hours of debate and more than 500 amendments and new clauses, the EU (Withdrawal) Bill cleared the Commons this week, and will now pass for its second reading in the Lords on 30th and 31st January. Having only experienced one...
Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit weekly: 5 things

Paper politics First off, to Westminster. A busy week for the lobby correspondents with the growing behaviour scandal was made even busier when the House of Commons endorsed a Labour motion that the Government must publish 58 studies on the impact of Brexit on the UK...