Political news

• Donald Trump Praises Coastguard With Bizarre Dig At Media

  02-09-2017 23:11
  
  Donald Trump is visiting areas devastated by Hurricane Harvey for the second time hoping to make a better impression then he did earlier in the week when he was slammed for making it all about himself.
  To his credit he didn’t crow about crowd sizes or use the suffering of others as an opportunity to sell his own merchandise.For a third time, Trump is using Hurricane Harvey as product placement for a hat he sells for $40 pic.twitter.com/8Js7DEnbAs— Gabriel Snyder (@gabrielsnyder) Augu
  
  Read more

• Furious Tory MPs reject Theresa May’s threats over Brexit votes

  02-09-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Whips warn pro-remainers over ‘Corbyn support’ but ex-minister says leadership challenge is likelyTheresa May faced a growing Tory revolt over her leadership as it emerged that Remain-supporting Conservative MPs are being told by party whips that they will be seen as “supporting Jeremy Corbyn” if they attempt to soften the Brexit bill.Furious Conservatives, including former ministers, said such threats and arm-twisting from the whips’ office would “backfire&rd
  
  Read more

• Brexit is not an excuse to tame parliament

  02-09-2017 19:16
  The government’s withdrawal bill proposes wide-ranging powers for the executive
  
  Read more

• Vince Cable raises doubts about Brexit ever happening

  02-09-2017 15:12
  FT Weekend Festival debates life after the EU and political polarisation in a post-truth era
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Sarah Champion Draws Praise From... The English Defence League

  02-09-2017 14:46
  
  Labour MP Sarah Champion has warned that the “floppy left” is afraid of speaking out on issues such as sex grooming gangs for fear of being branded racist.
  The former shadow women and equalities secretary was forced to quit her frontbench role last month after a backlash for saying “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls”.
  The Rotherham MP used an interview with The Times to highlight differences in attitudes between the capital
  
  Read more

• UK Brexit Team Mocked By German And French Newspapers

  02-09-2017 12:40
  
  German and French newspapers has branded Theresa May and her ministers the “Quartet of the Clueless” for their “dawdling” approach to the ongoing Brexit talks.
  The left-leaning Suddeutsche Zeitung ran the headline ‘May and her ministers stumble into Brexit’, accusing the Prime Minister of being “the worst election campaigner the island has ever witnessed” who is “clinging to power”.Meanwhile Bild said the British negotiating team was &l
  
  Read more

• Don’t be fooled: Brexit Britain wants a deal. Europe just wants a clean break | Natalie Nougayrède

  02-09-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  This week’s talks were fractious for a reason. The UK has barely begun to understand Brussels’ mindset – and is still negotiating with itselfAs this week’s round of Brexit talks in Brussels has shown, things are not going well at all. The current stalemate is bad enough. But there will be worse to come if the British public continues to be fed a narrative in which the process boils down to good guys (from London) v bad guys (in Brussels), or in which it only takes Theresa
  
  Read more

• EU migrants’ claims for unemployment benefit fall

  02-09-2017 06:02
  Data show Europeans’ applications for payments are small proportion of total
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Academics face big rise in their pension payments

  02-09-2017 02:03
  Retirement fund says cost of funding future benefits has increased 35 per cent
  
  Read more

• Brexit talks round three and will Theresa May cling on?

  02-09-2017 01:45
  The political news season has kicked off again with David Davis going head-to-head with Michel Barnier in Brussels - have the talks stalled already? And does Theresa May have any chance of leading her party into the next election?
  
  Read more

• Certain terror offences should carry longer jail terms, QC says

  02-09-2017 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Max Hill, independent reviewer of terror legislation, says those who fail to alert authorities to possible attacks could be jailed for more than five yearsMaximum sentences for certain terror offences should be longer, according to the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.Max Hill QC, who took up the role three weeks before the Westminster Bridge attack, suggested the crime of failing to alert authorities to possible attacks ought to be punishable, in serious cases, by jail terms of mor
  
  Read more

• MPs declare sports and bookies as most common donors

  02-09-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Ladbrokes Coral companies appear 15 times for hospitality in the register of MPs' donations.
  
  Read more

Follow @political_UKnws on Twitter!