Tag: UK Parliament

• Saturday, April 28th 2018 - 11:17 UTC

  MPs want to speak to Facebook's Zuckerberg following frustrating questioning of his chief technology officer

  

  UK Members of Parliament have urged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to speak to them after evidence given by his chief technology officer was deemed unsatisfactory. A parliamentary committee said Mr Schroepfer had failed to fully answer 40 points put to him as part of an inquiry into fake news.

• Thursday, April 26th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  PM May on the brink: North Ireland allies warning on an EU customs union

  

  The Democratic Unionist Party has warned UK Prime Minister Theresa May it will bring down her government if Northern Ireland is forced to stay inside the EU customs union and single market after Brexit. The renewed threat comes ahead of a vote by British MPs, pushed for by pro-EU parliamentarians, seeking to keep UK customs union membership.

• Thursday, April 26th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  UK could consider an extension of Brexit talks if Parliament rejects withdrawal deal

  

  Brexit Secretary David Davis has suggested the UK government could consider asking for Brexit negotiations to be extended if Parliament votes down the withdrawal deal later this year. Speaking to the Exiting the EU Committee on Wednesday, Davis conceded that it would not be impossible to prolong Article 50 negotiations, having previously said that the deal would “fall” if MPs vote it down.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 06:52 UTC

  Falklands and Bermuda governments fund their governors' uniforms

  

  Who pays for the uniforms worn by the Governors of British Overseas Territories was discussed in UK Parliament last week, with Minister of State stating that since 2001, the policy “has been that those Territories wishing to keep their ceremonial uniforms pay for them themselves,” and currently the “Governors of Bermuda and Falkland Islands retain the uniform, both funded by their respective Territory governments.”

• Tuesday, August 22nd 2017 - 07:11 UTC

  UK controversy over tactical voting; reform campaigners want proportional representation

  

  Tactical voting reached a new peak at June's general election as voters tried to get round a failed system, according to electoral reform campaigners. The Electoral Reform Society branded the poll a “hold your nose election,” claiming 6.5 million voted tactically rather than for what they believed in.

• Tuesday, July 25th 2017 - 04:17 UTC

  Influential Tory MP proposes BOTs elected representation in Westminster

  

  An influential Tory MP has said that increased devolution powers to the Home countries has made lack of Westminster representation for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories a great unfairness, and it is time to end the outdated system of treating them like Colonies.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2017 - 05:39 UTC

  “Remain” cross party group in Parliament pledges to fight “hard Brexit”

  

  A cross-party group to co-ordinate the UK parliamentary fight against a “hard Brexit” has been set up under the leadership of Tory former minister Ana Soubry and senior Labour MP Chuka Umunna.

• Friday, February 17th 2017 - 10:33 UTC

  Falklands receives four member of the UK Parliament

  

  Four members of the UK Parliament are visiting the Islands Guests of the Falkland Islands Government; they are accompanied by Falkland Islands Government Representative in London Sukey Cameron MBE. Members of Parliament are regularly invited to the Falkland Islands by FIG.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2017 - 08:09 UTC

  Government cannot trigger Article 50 without an act of Parliament, rules the Supreme Court

  

  The UK Parliament must vote on whether the government can start the Brexit process, the Supreme Court has ruled. The judgment means Prime Minister Theresa May cannot begin talks with the EU until MPs and peers give their backing - although this is expected to happen in time for the government's 31 March deadline.

• Monday, May 25th 2015 - 06:46 UTC

  Gibraltarians will be able to vote in UK's referendum on ties with European Union

  

  Gibraltarians will be able to vote in Britain’s referendum on whether to sever ties with the European Union. The franchise for referendum, promised by Prime Minister David Cameron by the end of 2017, will be based on that for a UK general election - meaning Irish, Maltese and Cypriots resident in the UK will get a vote, but other EU citizens will not.