All posts tagged "Parliament"

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  Secret story: inside the delivery suite with the reluctant midwives of Brexit

  In-depth interviews with Conservative special advisers and ministers reveal the moments that shaped Britain’s exit from the EU. Matt Ross explores the strategic errors and political calculations that led two

  • Posted March 25, 2021
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  ‘An iconoclastic government’: former DEXEU chief Philip Rycroft on threats to the UK and its democracy

  Philip Rycroft ran both the UK’s Brexit department, and Whitehall’s relations with the devolved governments. Now the former permanent secretary is speaking out: the Johnson government, he says, is ‘challenging

  • Posted October 16, 2020
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  Queen’s speech signals constitutional change as Boris Johnson sets out legislative plans

  Fresh from winning last Thursday’s general election, the UK government has said it is taking steps to overhaul the country’s constitution as the Queen opened parliament with a speech outlining

  • Posted December 19, 2019
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  Boris’s Brexit trap

  Members of the UK’s House of Commons will try this week to prevent new PM Boris Johnson from securing a ‘no deal’ Brexit – but Johnson is a step ahead,

  • Posted September 2, 2019
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  Parliamentary suspension prompts fury in Brexit run-up

  The UK prime minister has announced that Parliament will be suspended for nearly five weeks from early September until mid-October, in an apparent bid to prevent MPs blocking a ‘no

  • Posted August 28, 2019
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  UK Parliament wins right to avert No Deal on Brexit

  The UK’s House of Commons agreed on Wednesday night that if Parliament rejects both PM Theresa May’s planned Brexit deal and the prospect of a ‘No Deal’ exit, MPs will

  • Posted February 27, 2019
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  Minor regrets, major changes: the EU’s former UK rep on a tumultuous four years

  Until 2017, Jackie Minor was the European Commission’s Head of Representation in the UK. As Brexit negotiations enter a dangerous and painful endgame, she reviews her time at the Commission

  • Posted February 14, 2019
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  Albion through the looking glass: Britain’s nervous breakdown

  Magical thinking, perverse incentives and growing anger are pushing the UK ever closer to a No Deal exit from the EU, as the country’s political establishment suffers a bout of

  • Posted February 1, 2019
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  Norwegian parliament adopts new, tighter asylum rules

  Norwegian border officials will be able to refuse entry to asylum seekers if there are “extraordinarily high numbers of arrivals,” according to new legislation passed last week. Storting – the

  • Posted June 29, 2016
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  EU issues Poland with official warning over constitutional court changes

  The EU Commission has issued an official warning to the government of Poland over recent changes to the country’s constitutional court, which it argues endanger the rule of law. Soon

  • Posted June 2, 2016
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