Business leaders from both sides of the English Channel urged Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday to accelerate talks on Britain's exit from the European Union as uncertainty about future trade relations threatens jobs and investment.more
The figure of the Prime Minister will join fellow world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the London attraction's Downing Street set.more
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło is on Monday set to meet the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, to brief him on Poland's expectations about the bloc's future relations with the UK, the Polish government spokesman has said.more
A Whitehall course claims GCHQ, Britain's digital surveillance agency, has concerns over software from Kaspersky Lab, handed out for free to about two million people.more
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said regional elections next month in Catalonia will help end "separatist havoc" in the north-eastern region.
He addressed a campaign event on his first visit there since imposing direct rule on the region a fortnight ago.more
Forty MPs have agreed to sign a letter of no confidence in Theresa May as European Union negotiators threaten to block trade talks until March unless Britain agrees to settle the Brexit divorce bill.more
Jeremy Corbyn has fired an extraordinary broadside against Boris Johnson, calling for him to be sacked immediately as foreign secretary for "undermining our country" and "putting our citizens at risk".more
Voting by EU countries on new headquarters of two European agencies that will have to move from Britain after Brexit will be secret and voting cards will be destroyed. The election is due November 20.more
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin informally met on the sidelines of a regional economic summit in Vietnam Saturday and agreed to an extensive statement on the conflict in Syria.more
Michel Barnier, the European Union's chief negotiator, yesterday set Britain a two-week deadline to make sufficient progress in the Brexit talks and kickstart discussions on a future UK-EU trade deal.more
About 100 French politicians have marched on a street in a Paris suburb in protest at Muslims holding Friday prayers in public.
The politicians, wearing tricolour sashes of office and singing the national anthem, disrupted about 200 worshippers on a street in Clichy.more
Theresa May has outlined plans to set the UK's departure date and time from the EU in law, warning she will not "tolerate" any attempt to block Brexit. She said the EU Withdrawal Bill would be amended to formally commit to Brexit at 23:00 GMT on Friday 29 March 2019.more
British media comments on the resignation of Minister of International Development Priti Patel, stressing that this is another proof of the problems of the government.more
Brussels is giving Britain two to three weeks to set out how much it is prepared to pay in the Brexit divorce settlement, warning that the EU will otherwise struggle to prepare this year for a transition deal the UK badly wants.
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Theresa May is facing a second cabinet reshuffle in a week, as she comes under pressure to say what the Foreign Office knew of Priti Patel's visit to Israel. Ms Patel resigned as international development secretary on Wednesday after holding a series of unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials.more
The court had initially suspended implementation of the secession declaration last month while it studied its legality following a challenge by the Spanish government.more
