Theresa May, transitions and the Northern Ireland border
Theresa May has been given permission by the Tory Right to embrace a full blown transition period after Brexit.
Channel 4 News Political Editor gives his take on the latest news and gossip from the corridors of power in Westminster and beyond.
Gary Gibbon has been Channel 4 News Political Editor since 2005. He gives his take on the latest news and gossip from the corridors of power in Westminster and beyond.
Gary has worked on four general elections for Channel 4 News. His interview with Peter Mandelson in 2001 triggered the Northern Ireland Secretary's second resignation from the Cabinet.
In 2006, he won the Royal Television Society Home News Award with Jon Snow for the scoop on the Attorney General's Legal Advice on Iraq. Gary also revealed details of Blair's pre-War meeting with George Bush n 2008 and won the Political Studies Association Broadcast Journalist of the Year award.
Once the Brexit negotiations actually begin, a key priority will be Northern Ireland. Today the Irish prime minister said nothing should be allowed to undermine peace and stability – with no return to the old, hard border between north and south.
Theresa May has been given permission by the Tory Right to embrace a full blown transition period after Brexit.
Theresa May has insisted that Britain’s relations with Spain remain on a basis of “jaw-jaw”, after a former Conservative leader suggested that she might be ready to resort to war to defend Gibraltar.
The government has published details of its so-called Great Repeal Bill, the day after the UK officially began to sever its ties to the EU.
Denis MacShane always used to say, the thing you need to remember about Europe is that “we don’t read their papers but they read ours.” Ponder what they make of these.
There is no turning back, said the PM. The two-year countdown to Brexit has begun, starting with a brief moment for the cameras as the formal exit note was handed over.
The UK and Scottish Governments are at loggerheads tonight over a second independence referendum. This afternoon the Scottish Parliament demanded a vote within two years.
The government has toughened its line on a second Scottish independence referendum: Scotland may have to wait for Brexit to “bed in,” it may even have to wait for a transition period after Brexit before a second referendum can take place.
With 48 hours left until the triggering of Article 50 makes Brexit a reality, Theresa May today made an attempt today to concrete over the cracks in that other Union, of England and Scotland.
Some in the Edinburgh administration detect a division in the May team on when a second referendum might have to be granted.
The Prime Minister said Parliament was meeting as normal to deliver a clear message: its “resolve will never waver in the face of terrorism”.
The UK will officially notify the European Union that it is to leave next Wednesday, the 29th March. That will start the clock on a two-year countdown to Britain’s actual departure from the EU.
Another independence vote will happen, no matter what Westminster says, Scottish National Party leaders have declared.
There’s a debate, not completely resolved, over just how hard No. 10 should push back the SNP on their chosen date for a second independence referendum.
Theresa May hit back at Nicola Sturgeon and told her that another referendum on Scottish independence was off the cards…indefinitely. The SNP called it a democratic outrage! May v Sturgeon: the gloves are off but what next?