Joe to the Rescue? Biden Touches Down in Belfast, Promising to ‘Preserve the Peace’ in Northern Ireland
President Joe Biden touched down outside Belfast as he prepares for a tour to mark the anniversary of the Good Friday Peace agreement.
President Joe Biden touched down outside Belfast as he prepares for a tour to mark the anniversary of the Good Friday Peace agreement.
Britain’s Conservative Party government has indicated that they will not take action to prevent the European Union from interfering with Northern Ireland while the Ukraine crisis rages on.
The DUP are to push for the British government to deploy the Brexit ‘nuclear option’ over issues surrounding the Northern Ireland Protocol.
British negotiators have dropped a red line Brexit demand, allowing the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to have the final say on some matters in Northern Ireland.
“You can be anything in Britain except a Christian,” Democratic Unionist Party politician Ian Paisley Jr told Faisal Islam of the BBC.
U.S. President Joe Biden has appeared to side with the EU as it launches legal action against Brexit Britain, backing its imposition of internal borders between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom.
The First Minister of Northern Ireland has launched a public petition to Parliament to scrap restrictions imposed on trade between the province and the British mainland by Boris Johnson’s deals with the European Union.
The British military has to fill in forms and alert NATO when moving forces from one part of the United Kingdom to another under the Northern Ireland protocol of Boris Johnson’s deals with the European Union, it has been revealed.
The head of the police service in Northern Ireland has warned that any Brexit deal seen to threaten the United Kingdom could lead to disorder.
Ian Paisley Jr, the Northern Irish MP and son of firebrand Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) founder The Reverend Ian Paisley (Lord Bannside), has vowed there will be “no surrender” to a European Union deal which divides the United Kingdom.
European Council president Donald Tusk has contradicted European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, saying Brexit could be delayed yet again.
President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has told reporters Brexit “has to happen now” and there will be no deadline extension – MPs must accept Boris Johnson’s new deal or leave without one.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that the deal agreed between Boris Johnson and the EU is “just not Brexit”, while the DUP has said it will not back it in parliament.
Till any deal is done and dusted there’s almost no point in discussing the latest Brexit shenanigans, let alone in attempting to make any predictions of what will happen next.
Progressive-liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt has accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson and fellow Tory Brexiteers of being the “real traitors”.
The Irish government has said it “cannot possibly” accept Boris Johnson’s proposed Brexit compromise, with the Irish prime minister claiming the British want another referendum.
DUP leader Arlene Foster has accused the European Union of using the stalemate over renegotiating the UK’s withdrawal treaty to “break up the United Kingdom”. The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, a conservative, Northern Irish party which holds up
London (AFP) – A no-deal Brexit could lead to a united Ireland as more people in Northern Ireland would “come to question the Union” with Great Britain, Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has said.
Candidate for Tory Party leader Jeremy Hunt has been asked to clarify his statements after saying that Northern Ireland veterans and IRA terrorists should be treated “in the same way”.
A new leaked document shows that Theresa May’s plans for a ‘new’ Brexit withdrawal agreement contains no new ideas or any substantial changes that are likely to see it passed in the Commons.
Brexiteers have condemned Prime Minister Theresa May for abdicating power of the government to a progressive-socialist shadow cabinet and Brussels.
The European Union has reportedly offered April Fools’ Day 2020 as a new Brexit date should Theresa May’s deal fail to succeed on a mooted third attempt to get it through Parliament, assuming Remain MPs move to stop a No Deal on exit on April 12th.
The Democratic Unionist Party has slammed the EU’s “degrading proposal” to allow Britain to leave the “backstop” envisioned in Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal without their permission — as long as Northern Ireland is left behind.
Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Gregory Campbell has accused arch remainers John Major and Tony Blair of “playing on the fears” of people living along the Irish border as they campaign to stop the UK making a clean break of the EU.
Leading Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sammy Wilson has said now is the time to “exploit the cracks” appearing in the EU to win a better Brexit deal — and warned the Irish they will be tossed aside by the bloc when they can no longer be used as leverage.
Democratic Unionist Party MP Gregory Campbell has said Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar must “dial down the rhetoric” after the Taoiseach claimed the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland may need an “army presence” in the result of a no-deal Brexit.
Sammy Wilson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) spokesman on Brexit, has warned the European Union that they will be “in trouble” if Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement is voted down.
Sammy Wilson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) spokesman on Brexit, has rubbished claims by Chancellor Philip “Remainer Phil” Hammond and others that a “No Deal” exit from the European Union would plunge the United Kingdom into a post-apocalyptic situation.
The European Union is reportedly plotting an extension of the Article 50 period before Britain’s departure in March 2019 as Theresa May’s “worst deal in history” with the bloc heads for a historic defeat in the House of Commons.
The British government has been found in contempt of the Houses of Parliament for the first time in history, and will be forced to publish the full legal advice it received on Theresa May’s Brexit deal after it was defeated in a key Parliament vote Tuesday.
Nigel Dodds, who leads Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in the British Parliament, has warned that Theresa May’s “Brexit in name only” deal risks “the break up of the United Kingdom”.
Tory Brexiteer Boris Johnson has told the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) conference that the EU is using Northern Ireland as a “bargaining chip” in the Brexit negotiations, and that Theresa May’s “deal” with the bloc is an “economic and political humiliation” which risks turning the Province into a “semi-colony”.
Northern Irish MP Sammy Wilson has said the Prime Minister has “torn up” her Brexit promises and said the EU was using the Irish border issue to cut off the province from the rest of the UK. The comments to
The Prime Minister has betrayed Brexit, and is subjecting the United Kingdom to political slavery at the hands of Brussels Brexiteers have said as the details of the Prime Minister’s ‘Brexit’ deal leaked to Irish media Tuesday afternoon.
The Brexit-supporting Northern Irish party propping up Theresa May’s minority government has rejected concessions to the European Union (EU) which could have left Brits subject to EU judges for years.
Veteran statesman Lord David Trimble has rebuked Irish leader Leo Varadkar for “riding roughshod” over the peace process in Ulster, and seeking to turn the British province of Northern Ireland into an “EU protectorate”.
Just 19 percent of the British public have faith in the Prime Minister’s ability to deliver a good Brexit, opinion polling suggests, in news that will inevitably pile further pressure on Theresa May’s leadership at a time where she is facing a potential leadership challenge from members of her own Conservative Party.
Irish taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar has been slammed by British unionist politicians in Northern Ireland for using a photograph of an IRA bombing as Brexit leverage.
Tory MPs from both the Brexiteer and EU loyalist wings of the Tory Party are turning on Theresa May over her “chaotic” mismanagement of negotiations with the bloc.
Talks between Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and EU negotiator Michel Barnier have broken down, and ministers and civil servants have been told to have preparations for a ‘No Deal’ Brexit ready within weeks.