SNP's @IanBlackfordMP says @BorisJohnson should take responsibility and negotiate a brexit extension. Doesn't sound like he will back an immediate election on the PM's timetable: 'top priority to stop no deal' and 'will work with all others' and 'not fall for stunts'
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tabled a motion for a General Election on 15 October after MPs backed a bill seeking to prevent a 'No-deal' Brexit
9 month agoHillary Benn says the Commons "has spoken" and Boris Johnson should "uphold the law and fulfil the obligations placed upon him by this bill" and delay Brexit to avoid leaving with no-deal.
Corbyn likens Johnson to the wicked queen in Snow White - what he's offering is not the apple of an election "but the poison of a no deal"
Bill preventing No Deal on Oct 31st passes final stage in Commons: 327 - 299. Bill passes to Lords
Boris Johnson: 'There must be an election on Tuesday 15th October.'
British Prime Minister: We will withdraw from the European Union by October 31 in any case
MPs have voted for second reading of Brexit delay bill
EU sceptical new Brexit deal can be struck by Oct 31: senior EU source
9 month agoIsraeli PM @Netanyahu will meet tomorrow in London with PM @BorisJohnson and US Defense Secretary Mark Esper @EsperDoD
Netanyahu to travel to London tomorrow to meet Boris Johnson and US SecDef Mark Esper
MPs are holding a debate in the House of Commons on legislation which would require the Government to ask for a delay to Brexit beyond 31 October if no deal with the EU is agreed or MPs have not agreed to a 'no-deal' Brexit by 19 October
Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to apologise for his "derogatory and racist remarks"
British Prime Minister proposes early elections on 15 October
An activist has lost the world's first legal challenge over police use of facial recognition technology at the High Court in London
A judge at the highest court in Scotland has ruled Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament is not a matter for the courts and does not contravene the rule of law
United Kingdom: Two people have been arrested by police in connection with the violent protest outside Indian High Commissioner in London yesterday
At least five foreign nationals including two British and a Romanian were killed in Taliban attack on Green Village compound in Kabul on Monday and 25 others were wounded, a source from the Ministry of Interior said
Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has posted a tweet asking how there is "no longer room in the Conservative party for Nicholas Soames"
Iranian state TV says the country plans to free seven crew members from the British-flagged Stena Impero tanker seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guards near the Strait of Hormuz in July two weeks after Royal Marines seized an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar which has been released
9 month agoNewham murder: A teenage boy has been stabbed to death in Stratford last night. Met Police say they were called to Byford Close, E15 at 6.45pm to reports of a fight. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
9 month agoStratford: No arrests have been made. A crime scene remains in place in the area of Stratford Park. The teenager was murdered only minutes away from where 18 year old Santino Angelo Dymiter was found stabbed to death on Chadd Green in Plaistow on Monday 26 August
Sky News has learned the Brexit negotiating team under Boris Johnson has been reduced to less than a quarter of the size of the team under Theresa May
9 month agoCommons Speaker John Bercow grants MPs an emergency debate on whether they can take control of Parliament's agenda tomorrow, the first step in a cross-party effort to block a no-deal Brexit
A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Sandra Samuels, 45, who was found dead in her home on the Milton Gardens Estate in Stoke Newington on Saturday
9 month agoMore police called to contain Kashmir protestors outside Indian high commission.
No deal Brexit, according to the UK government itself, will mean food shortages, lack of medical supplies and chaos at ports, says @jeremycorbyn, calling this "not just a government of chaos, but a government of cowardice."
No deal Brexit will "put us at the mercy of Donald Trump and United States' corporations," according to @jeremycorbyn
9 month agoUK government has only one plan, according to @jeremycorbyn: "To crash out of the EU without a deal."
"There will be no further pointless delay," vows @BorisJohnson, speaking in Parliament, about Brexit
