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As the UK lurches towards 29 March with no agreed plan in sight, it can be hard to decipher what is going on. With multiple Brussels trips, negotiations, promises and back-and-forth, it’s hard to tell if Prime Minister Theresa May is saying much at all.
After several days of intense talks with MPs, Theresa May addressed the House Of Commons on 21 January 2019 with the updated plan for Brexit.
Theresa May has had her Brexit deal rejected by a massive majority in the House of Commons, voting 432 to 202 to throw out her proposals. Jeremy Corbyn followed up by tabling a vote of no confidence in the government.
Shouting people down, threatening them, accusing them of being traitors – this must no longer happen on our doorstep
Steve Bray stands outside parliament all day with anti-Brexit signs behind television crews and brings down Westminster with his bellows of “stop Brexit!” and “not a done a done deal!”. The 49-year-old Welshman has been protesting for the last 15 months and says he’ll stay as long as it takes.
His speech was branded a 'William Hague moment'.
Fresh to the job market and interested in politics, working for an MP looks like the dream career. Young, eager, and dying for a job gives you little bargaining power. The pay is dire, the conditions worse.
Pepper the robot was the first non-human to be a witness in Parliament, as it spoke before the Education Committee. The robot is being developed to be culturally aware so it can work with the elderly.
“Women are disproportionately impacted by Brexit, but our voices are being drowned out."
Westminster has a duty to take into account the will of the people in 2018, which is shifting fast towards staying in the EU