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Anti-Brexit protesters outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Wire
Johnson loses Brexit Bill vote and feels Tory heat over ‘purge’

MPs have passed a Bill obliging Boris Johnson to seek a three-month delay to Brexit if he fails to secure a withdrawal deal by October 19th, with a fo(...)

DUP leader Arlene Foster and the party’s leader in the House of Commons, Nigel Dodds, on Downing Street. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty
Newton Emerson: How the UK election plays out in North will be crucial

The UK is going to have a general election within months. Prime minister Boris Johnson’s working majority, including the DUP’s 10 MPs, has fallen to o(...)

Jim Allister: he said changes to the North’s abortion and same-sex marriage law “should never have been accepted”. Photograph: Getty Images
MPs vote to make abortion legal in the North

House of Commons MPs have voted by 328 to 65 to make abortion legal in the North if the Northern Ireland assembly and executive are not back in place (...)

DUP MP Sammy Wilson has criticised a warning to unionists over a Border poll. Photograph: Liam McBurney/The Irish Times
Hard Border could lead to breakup of UK, Tory MP warns unionists

The chair of Westminster’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has warned unionists that a hard Border after Brexit could lead to a united Ireland and (...)

Boris Johnson during the launch of his campaign to become Conservative leader and prime minister at the Royal Academy of Engineering in central London. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
Boris Johnson has clear lead as Conservatives set to vote

Conservative MPs vote on Thursday in the first round of a leadership contest, with former foreign secretary and London mayor Boris Johnson the clear f(...)

Boris Johnson during the launch at Westminster of his campaign to become leader of the Conservatives and prime minister. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
MPs reject motion to stop next prime minister taking UK out of EU without deal

MPs have rejected a Labour motion aimed at preventing the next prime minister from taking Britain out of the EU without a deal against the will of par(...)

Independent MP Sylvia Hermon warned that money from stolen ATMs could be used for dissident activity. Photograph: David Young/ PA Wire
Stolen ATMs could be used for dissident activity, says MP

There are fears stolen cash machines could be being taken by dissident republicans planning to use the money to fund attacks against police in the eve(...)

Tánaiste Simon Coveney (left) has said that the DUP has not represented Northern Ireland following the unionist party’s deputy leader Nigel Dodds’ (right) comments. Photographs: Yves Herman/Reuters and Niall Carson/PA Wire
Tánaiste plays down Dodds’ remarks on Brexit deal

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney has played down the significance of remarks by DUP deputy leader, Nigel Dodds that he would r(...)

Tánaiste Simon Coveney welcomes Britain’s Prince Charles before dinner at the Irish embassy in London on March 6th.
Miriam Lord’s week: Coveney poetically tightens British ties over dinner

It’s been a busy week for Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney as Britain’s Brexit bandwagon lurches unsteadily towards God only kn(...)

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan: said the only active politician representing the majority feeling in the North is Lady Sylvia Hermon. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
No plans for emergency EU summit, Taoiseach tells Dáil

Ireland and the EU are not threatening a no-deal Brexit and it is the UK government and parliament that have the authority to remove that threat, the (...)

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