'Liberated' ex-Speaker John Bercow speaks out on Trump and dubs Brexit 'historic mistake'
John Bercow is not a man of few words. And now that he has been freed from the enforced neutrality of his job as speaker of Britain's House of Commons, he has quite a few things to say. Brexit? A historic mistake. Donald Trump? A ...
Johnson tries to shake off rocky start as U.K. election campaign begins
Prime Minister Boris Johnson told British voters Wednesday that they have to back his Conservatives if they want an end to Brexit delays, as he tried to shake off a rocky start to the governing party's election campaign. Speaking outside his No. 10 Downing St. ...
Labour's Lindsay Hoyle replaces John Bercow as U.K. Commons speaker
Long-serving Labour Party lawmaker Lindsay Hoyle was elected speaker of Britain's House of Commons on Monday, taking up the job with a clear message: I'm not John Bercow. Hoyle was chosen by lawmakers from among seven candidates to replace the influential but contentious Bercow. Bercow ...
Britain spins toward Christmas election as Johnson wins preliminary approval for vote
Britain on Tuesday was heading toward its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson won preliminary approval from Parliament for an early ballot aimed at breaking the Brexit deadlock. As the European Union granted a third delay to the divorce ...
EU set to delay Brexit after Boris Johnson defeated in Parliament
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's defining mission to take the U.K. out of the European Union in nine days' time was derailed as members of Parliament dramatically blocked his plan to rush the Brexit deal into law. European Council President Donald Tusk responded by saying he ...
U.K. Commons speaker deals new blow to Johnson's Brexit plan, blocking parliamentary vote
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to lead Britain out of the European Union at the end of this month hit another roadblock Monday when the speaker of the House of Commons rejected his attempt to hold a new vote of lawmakers on his Brexit ...
U.K. clinches Brexit deal, but now Boris Johnson must face Parliament
Britain clinched an eleventh-hour Brexit deal with the EU on Thursday, more than three years after Britons voted in a referendum to leave the bloc, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson still faces a knife-edge vote in Parliament to get it approved. "Where there is a ...
Brexit talks soldier on as U.K.-EU summit looms but divorce deal eludes
The European Union and Britain saw their chances of reaching a full Brexit divorce deal by Thursday's EU summit diminish by the hour Wednesday as legal issues centering on the Irish border frustrated negotiators. Hopes were increasingly turning toward getting a broad political commitment to ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson repeated Monday that Britain must leave the EU on Oct.31, as divorce talks resumed in Brussels in a pivotal week that could define how and when Brexit finally happens. In an elaborate ceremony in Parliament in London, Queen Elizabeth II set ...
Brexit divorce talks between U.K. and EU go down to the wire as Johnson dampens optimism
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Cabinet colleagues that it will require a "significant amount of work" to strike a Brexit deal with the European Union, amid signs of progress in last-minute talks but also deep-seated skepticism about the chances of an agreement. Britain is ...
Dominic Cummings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's senior adviser, said on Thursday the current Brexit maelstrom was a "walk in the park" compared to the 2016 EU referendum, saying there was no pressure and they were enjoying it, the Daily Telegraph said. Cummings played a key ...
Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour backing for his wait-and-see Brexit tack
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn won backing for his wait-and-see policy on Brexit after the opposition party's conference voted to reject a plan to "energetically campaign" to stay in the European Union. After two days in which the gathering in Brighton, southeast England, was overshadowed by ...
