Tag: UK Parliament

• Monday, January 28th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  UK Parliamentarians remain firm on Gibraltar

  

  Gibraltar has intensified its contact on Brexit with senior United Kingdom parliamentarians both in the House of Commons and the House of Lords in order to put across the position of Gibraltar. The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia took advantage of their visit to London last week to meet opinion-formers on the Remain and the Leave sides of the argument.

• Monday, January 21st 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Galicia commissions new report on Brexit and a possible fishing agreement with UK

  

  The Government of Galicia will commission the University Institute of European Studies “Salvador de Madariaga”, from the University of A Coruña, a new report on the current status of the Brexit agreement and the possibilities to reach a fishing agreement with the United Kingdom.

• Friday, January 18th 2019 - 10:01 UTC

  EU prepares contingency plans for a UK disorderly departure

  

  French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has said a no-deal Brexit looks “less and less unlikely” and has launched a contingency plan to prepare for it. After the UK Parliament rejected the withdrawal agreement, Mr Philippe said laws had to be passed and millions invested in French ports and airports.

• Friday, January 18th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Speaker of UK Parliament John Bercow, next Brexit victim?

  

  Such is the anger with the Speaker of the UK Parliament at senior levels of government, it has been suggested he could be blocked from getting a peerage when he retires. Ministers are furious at what they see as John Bercow's “bias” during Commons debates on Brexit.

• Thursday, January 17th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  EU frustrated, (and divided), but waiting for Mrs. May and Westminster Brexit B plan

  

  European Council President Donald Tusk has hinted that the UK should stay in the EU, after the prime minister's Brexit deal was rejected in parliament. “If a deal is impossible, and no-one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?” he tweeted.

• Tuesday, January 15th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  Theresa May and Parliament in their Brexit labyrinth

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing likely defeat in Parliament when she asks MPs to approve her Brexit deal this Tuesday. That result would trigger huge uncertainty about the future of Britain's exit from the European Union.

• Monday, January 14th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  PM May Monday speech to impede “catastrophic” defeat in Parliament and Labour no confidence vote

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May is making a last-ditch attempt to persuade MPs to back her Brexit deal as Tuesday's key Commons vote looms closer. She will use a speech on Monday to warn that Parliament is more likely to block Brexit than let the UK leave with no deal.

• Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Second defeat of May's Brexit deal in Commons vote: several Tories crossed lines

  

  Rebel Conservative MPs joined forces on Wednesday with Labour to inflict a fresh blow on Theresa May's government in a Commons Brexit vote. It means the government will have to come up with revised plans within three days if Mrs May's EU withdrawal deal is rejected by MPs next week.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2019 - 08:41 UTC

  Brexit plan's five-day debate takes off; Westminster shuts off “no-deal option”

  

  MPs will begin debating Theresa May's Brexit plan again on Wednesday, nearly a month after she postponed the crunch Commons vote on her agreement. There will be five days of discussion on the terms of the UK's withdrawal and future relations with the EU ahead of an expected vote next Tuesday.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:43 UTC

  PM May says UK can “turn a corner and put differences aside” if Parliament backs her Brexit deal

  

  The United Kingdom can “turn a corner” and start to “put its differences aside” if Parliament backs the proposed Brexit deal Prime minister Theresa May said in her New Year message.