Tag: Brexit

• Monday, March 25th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Scotland's First Minister predicts another independence referendum

  

  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has predicted that another independence referendum will take place in Scotland. But she said it was reasonable for her to wait for clarity on Brexit before setting out a firm position.

• Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 05:50 UTC

  London flooded by anti-Brexit protestors demanding a new referendum

  

  Anti-Brexit protesters flooded into central London by the hundreds of thousands on Saturday, demanding that Britain's Conservative-led government hold a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union. The “People's Vote March” snaked from Park Lane and other locations to converge on the U.K. Parliament, where the fate of Brexit will be decided in the coming weeks.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Theresa May not sure of a third vote on her Brexit deal next week: “there is not sufficient support”

  

  Theresa May has told MPs that a third vote on her Brexit deal may not take place next week “if it appears there is not sufficient support”. It comes after European Council President Donald Tusk said Brexit's fate was “in Britain's hands.”

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 06:49 UTC

  Scotland First Minister leads Saturday march in London demanding a second Brexit referendum

  

  Politicians including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon are to join thousands of Scots on a march in London to demand a second Brexit referendum. Bus-loads of protesters travelled through the night from across Scotland for the People's Vote event.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 06:30 UTC

  A petition to halt the Brexit process has passed three million signatures

  

  A petition calling on the UK Government to halt the Brexit process has passed three million signatures. The Revoke Article 50 petition has become the second most popular submitted to the Parliament website with the highest rate of sign-ups on record, according to the official Petitions Committee.

• Friday, March 22nd 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  May manages a Brexit postponement but Parliament must support her deal: “MPs have a clear choice”

  

  Theresa May will return to the UK on Friday to try and convince MPs to support her withdrawal deal after the EU agreed to postpone Brexit beyond 29 March. On Thursday night, after eight hours of talks, EU leaders offered to delay Brexit until 22 May if MPs approve Mrs May's deal next week.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 10:07 UTC

  Angela Merkel to the rescue of an “orderly Brexit”

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will fight for an “orderly Brexit” until “the very last hour”. Mrs Merkel said that current events were in a “state of flux”, adding that European Union leaders would try to react to whatever the UK proposed. The UK is due to leave the EU in 10 days' time, with or without a deal.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Mrs. May, with a divided cabinet, writes to EU requesting postponing Brexit; she flies to Brussels on Thursday

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May is writing to the EU to formally ask for Brexit to be postponed. One ministerial source told the BBC the longer delay could be up to two years, amid reports of a cabinet row, but No 10 said no decision had been made.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 05:44 UTC

  Brexit turmoil: Speaker rules out third vote unless Mrs. May's deal is re-submitted in fundamentally different form

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans were thrown into further turmoil on Monday when the speaker of parliament ruled that she could not put her divorce deal to a new vote unless it was re-submitted in a fundamentally different form.

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 06:42 UTC

  Mrs. May Brexit deal will be put to a vote this week only if it has DUP and Tory MPs support

  

  Theresa May's Brexit deal will not return to the Commons this week unless it has support from the DUP and Tory MPs, the chancellor says. The PM's plan is expected to be voted on for a third time in the coming days. But Philip Hammond told the BBC's Andrew Marr that it would only be put to MPs if “enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it”.