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A former Tory MP has revealed that he received a death threat while travelling to the Conservative Party Conference. It came just hours after Dominic Grieve and several other MPs were accused of receiving help from the EU in drafting a bill to block a no-deal Brexit. Mr Grieve said he received an email - which he passed on to police - while making his way by train to Manchester. The former attorney general was one of 21 MPs to be stripped of the Conservative Party whip earlier this month after they voted against the Government in a bid to block a no-deal Brexit. Speaking after the first day of the conference, which was overshadowed by Boris Johnson defending his links to an American businesswoman who allegedly receivedgrants and access to business trips, while he was in City Hall, as well as claims by a journalist that the Prime Minister squeezed a journalist's thigh under the table, Mr Grieve accused Downing Street of issuing false briefings about MPs trying to block a...

Voters would overwhelmingly prefer the short-term disruption of a No Deal  Brexit  over the chaos of a  Jeremy Corbyn  Government – and that even applies to Labour supporters. Exclusive new research has found that nearly half of voters – 48 per cent – would be happy for the UK to leave the EU without a deal if the alternative scenario was Mr Corbyn as Prime Minister, while just 35 per cent preferred to have the Labour leader in Downing Street. Strikingly, the analysis of more than 8,000 voters' intentions, conducted by former Conservative Deputy Chairman Lord Ashcroft, discovered that, among Mr Corbyn's own voters who back Brexit, the figure was 57 per cent for No Deal, against 28 per cent who wanted to see their party leader in No 10. One member of Lord Ashcroft's focus group, quoted in his research, said: 'A Corbyn Government would be worse [than No Deal]. I would actually be scared.' Another said: 'Boris is a whirlwind of chaos, he's a bit ...

Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said she is open-minded about Jeremy Corbyn becoming an interim prime minister as her representative in Westminster said the Scottish National party is now “desperate” for an election. Sturgeon said she was not personally pushing for Corbyn to lead the country as a unity figure, but he could be an interim prime minister to secure an extension to Brexit and then call a general election. She said “We are all going to have to compromise, we are all going to have to swallow our pride and put up with something for a matter of days to allow that to happen, and get on with it.” Her interview comes as Ian Blackford, the SNP MP who leads the party in the Commons, said the party wants an election as soon as possible. Internal Labour polling has shown it could fare badly in Scotland at another election for not formally backing remain – which would be an advantage to the SNP. Sturgeon and Blackford’s positions have sparked speculation ...

Boris Johnson's right-hand man says there are loopholes in the  law  that are designed to put prevent a "disastrous" no deal  Brexit . Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister's senior adviser says that lawyers are arguing over the Benn Act, which demands that the government asks the EU for an extension to the Brexit deadline. It comes as former Prime Minister John Major launched an attack on  Boris Johnson  - accusing him of having plans to exploit a loophole to bypass the law which forces the government to go for an extension to the October 31 deadline if there is no exit deal. Mr Major said the government will use a piece of legal "chicanery" to by pass the bill, using the secretive body of the Privy Council to get around the law. Mr Cummings said last night:"There are obviously loopholes here, because Remain lawyers are all babbling away on Twitter about the loopholes, so they say themselves that there are loopholes." Asked by Sky  ...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned to face the nation's parliament on Wednesday a day after the Supreme Court ruled he acted unlawfully when suspending the legislature earlier this month. Johnson flew back from addressing the UN General Assembly to face calls to resign from politicians, pundits and the public - even from the Financial Times - but appears set to continue on his mission to pull the UK out from the European Union, "do or die" in his own words, on October 31. In his first appearance back in the House of Commons, he called parliament "gridlocked, paralysed and refusing to deliver". "It is absolute no disrespect to the judiciary to say that I think the court was wrong to pronounce on what is essentially a political question," he said. His words were met with jeers and shouts of "arrogance". In handing down the Supreme Court's ruling on Tuesday, Justice Lady Hale, the court's president, had said "th...

An interesting day, but fundamentally what does it mean for the country? Firstly, the court judgement and the questions around it. 1) The Queen is above both civil and criminal law, although her advisers say she will endeavour to stay within the law. 2) The PM advises the Queen, but the DECISION is the Queen's to make, therefore the DECISION was the Queen's to make, and she is above the law. 3) Courts rule on matters of LAW, which LAW has the PM or the Queen actually broken? 4) UNLAWFUL - is a statement, in law it means "not expressly permitted by law" there is very little that is expressly permited by law, it merely means that law has not expressed an opinion. Shooting an alien is unlawful, because law has expressed an opinion on that. 5) Corbyn has called it "illegal" in his conference speech, that means contrary to CRIMINAL law and therefore subject to criminal charges and detention, clearly he doesn't understand law. Frankly, this i...

Labour will not fight the next general election on a pro-Remain platform after conference delegates voted to endorse the leadership’s preferred position of neutrality until after a Corbyn government has negotiated its own deal.  The position endorsed by Labour’s ruling national executive committee - which would see the party hold a special conference after the conclusion of negotiations with Brussels to determine how it would campaign in a second referendum - was voted through overwhelmingly on a show of hands, as did composite 14, another motion that called for the party to take a neutral position in any fresh public vote. Composite 13, which called for Labour to campaign for Remain in any circumstances, was narrowly defeated. Wendy Nichols, the conference chair, refused to submit to calls from angry delegates for a card vote counted formally by tellers, which those pushing for a Remain position believe they would have won. Why? The exuberant response of delegates w...

Corbyn is on a collision course with Labour’s membership after he attempted to stop the party campaigning to remain in the EU at a general election. Before a crucial vote on Monday on whether the party should explicitly back remain in any election, Labour’s autumn conference descended into factional rows over its brexit policy, with rebellious MPs privately threatening another leadership challenge. Corbyn moved to stamp his authority on Labour’s Brexit position by proposing a delay to deciding how the party should campaign at a second referendum. Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent direct to you   Read more His proposal to put off the decision until after an election was endorsed by the national executive committee, by 16 votes to 10, after members were asked to send their agreement by email and without a meeting. “The NEC believes it is right that the party shall only decide how to campaign in such a referendum – through ...

Jeremy Corbyn was struggling to contain an open revolt by some of his most senior shadow ministers, MPs and party activists last night as anger over his refusal to back a policy of remaining in the EU threatened to wreck the Labour conference. With delegates already reeling from a failed attempt by Corbyn supporters to oust Tom Watson and abolish his role as deputy leader, anger erupted amid accusations that the leadership was trying to block democratic debate and fudge a decision about where Labour stands on the issue of leaving the EU. What was supposed to be a conference to showcase a party united behind new policies on education and health before a likely general election instead opened amid bitterness and acrimony, with a defiant Watson still in place, and Emily Thornberry, Keir Starmer and Clive Lewis, the shadow foreign secretary, Brexit secretary and Treasury minister, publicly defying Corbyn by backing Remain. Leading a march through the streets of Brighton in fav...