Strawberry and other soft fruit farmers are warning of potential shortages because they are struggling to find enough workers to pick fruit. The British Summer Fruits (BSF) trade body said its members were 10% to… Read More
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Brexit row: GCHQ chief stresses UK’s role in foiling European terror plots
Britain supplied key information to help break up terrorist operations in four European countries in the last year, one of its intelligence chiefs revealed on Tuesday, as the UK upped the ante in the growing… Read More
Jeremy Hunt: NHS cash boost is not dependent on Brexit dividend
Jeremy Hunt has conceded that having a Brexit dividend to partly finance an increase in NHS spending will depend on the economy outstripping forecasts, as he pledged the £20bn in extra annual funding would be… Read More
Tory rebellions against May’s Brexit plans ‘could bring down government’
Tory rebels against Theresa May’s Brexit plans could ultimately collapse the government, Dominic Grieve has said, ahead of another key week in parliament over the EU withdrawal bill. Grieve, the former attorney general, has said… Read More
Theresa May under fire over NHS ‘Brexit dividend’ claim
Theresa May is under pressure to justify how a so-called Brexit dividend could help pay for a planned £20bn annual funding rise for the NHS, as her announcement on extra health spending was met with… Read More
Conservative rebels prepare to ‘battle for the soul of Brexit’
Tory rebels are refusing to back down as they attempt to secure a “meaningful” vote on how the government should respond if there is no agreed Brexit deal, despite Downing Street insisting there were no… Read More
SNP promises more guerrilla tactics over Brexit powers
The Scottish National party is threatening to keep up its guerrilla tactics at Westminster in protest against the government’s handling of Brexit and the powers of the Scottish parliament. The SNP leader in the Commons,… Read More
An Endgame, of Sorts, Is Looming for the U.K. in the Brexit Debate
LONDON — Each week Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain seems to face a new crisis over the country’s withdrawal from the European Union, only to escape, her authority diminished but her determination to carry… Read More