Boris Johnson is the favourite to win the Conservative leadership contest. But has he got what it takes to strike a Brexit deal with the EU?, asks Johanna Ross. By Johanna Ross in Edinburgh, Scotland Special to Consortium News The…Read more →
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the two men left standing for the Conservative Party leadership, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.
Boris Johnson said these were “dark days” for his party, but remains confident that he can turn things around and deliver Brexit, while ‘remainer’ Hunt warned members not to elect the “wrong person” and risk “catastrophe”.
Johnson said the most important thing was to “get Brexit done”.
He is all about being the romantic saboteur. He is destructive, hates the business of a steady vocation, and the idea of being desk bound. Little details trouble him; an indignant bigger picture is enthralling. Bomb throwers tend to be of such ilk, taking shots at the establishment, courting potential voters over a pint, and railing against non-representative elements in politics. But Nigel Farage and his recently arrived Brexit Party can unimpeachably claim to be vote getters.
The EU elections raise questions about the territorial integrity of the U.K., writes Johanna Ross. By Johanna Ross in Edinburgh, Scotland Special to Consortium News They were the elections that weren’t supposed to take place, but wound up proving highly…Read more →
He may not be popular in Britain, but he still has shavings of appeal. For a country that has time for Nigel Farage, pro-Brexit enthusiast and full-time hypocrite (he is a member of the European Parliament, the very same institution he detests), President Donald Trump will garner a gaggle of fans.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss US President Donald Trump’s trip to the UK.
Trump sounded off on Brexit, he declined to meet with Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn who then spoke at an anti-Trump rally. Conservative leader frontrunner, Boris Johnson, snubbed a meeting with the US President say he was too busy to meet.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage did meets with Trump who (as Farage noted later) said the US President “believes in Brexit”.
One of the rallying cries of the Brexit movement, whose supporters want Britain to leave the European Union, is the slogan “Let’s Take Back Control” — meaning, in the words of The Atlantic magazine, they imagine that by quitting Europe “they would be returning power from Brussels back to lawmakers in Westminster and, by extension, to the Br
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the latest push by the UK establishment from both the Conservative and Labour Parties to adopt a pro-EU stance and abolish the entire Brexit vote.
After EU elections that saw Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party surge to dominance, the two establishment UK parties have learned nothing from the stinging defeat.
The era of Theresa May is over: It was much longer than it appeared and the devastating, irreversible harm she did her country during the past nearly three years as national political leader was just the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
May’s entire public career bring to mind the title of Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera’s much loved 1984 novel, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
