There was just the one council by-election last night (plus one to the non-partisan City of London Corporation). Charles Lister stood for the Lib Dems in Warlingham ward, Surrey County Council and secured a solid result – closing the gap between us and the Conservatives … read more
MPs passed an amendment last night that required Theresa May to go back to the EU and try to renegotiate the backstop. The EU didn’t mess around – the vote result came out at 8:41pm, and by 8:47pm they’d said the … read more
Brexit latest In Parliament last night there were lots of heads shaking in bemusement. The Commons gave the government diametrically contradictory instructions to the Prime Minister: no to ‘no deal’; then yes to a proposal that will in all likelihood … read more
The title of this article should be common sense, shouldn’t it? And yet, between 2014 and 2016 alone, over 3000 people were dragged before the court. Not for doing anything wrong, but for falling foul of a 195-year-old law. Go … read more
Last night, MPs passed an amendment to the Prime Minister’s motion – the Brady amendment. It actioned Theresa May to go back to the EU and ask them to take the Northern Ireland backstop out of the deal. It took … read more