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direct to your inboxA No Deal Brexit has been averted for the time being as the EU and the UK agreed to continue talks into next week.There had been fears the Prime Minister Boris Johnson might pull the plug and end negotiations without a future trade agreement today.Mr Johnson set a deadline of Sunday earlier this week and told the country on Friday night to prepare for No Deal.The prospect prompted 10-mile queues of lorries near the port of Dover as supermarkets stockpiled ahead of potential

direct to your inboxBoris Johnson is set to meet the European Commission president in person this week in a last ditch attempt to get a post-Brexit trade deal.It comes after the Prime Minister spoke to Ursula von der Leyen on the phone on Monday evening.They agreed to ask their chief negotiators to prepare an overview of the “remaining differences”.The leaders will discuss them during a physical meeting in Brussels “in the coming days” in the hope of ending the stalemate.In a joint statement,

direct to your inboxGovernment’s ‘levelling up’ policy lacks any plan after a year that has seen divides widen further due to Covid-19, a report has warned.The annual ‘State of the North’ report points to ingrained gaps in wages, productivity and health between the region and the English average that will make recovery to an acceptable level that much harder.But on top of that Covid itself has had ‘an uneven impact across England’, says the research by think-tank IPPR, pointing to the extra

Liam Gallagher‘s ‘Down By The River Thames’ livestream event aired last night (December 5), and during the performance he shared a few words aimed at Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson.Gallagher and his band performed while floating down a barge on London’s River Thames for an event streamed exclusively on MelodyVR.

Forget the last-ditch trade talks. The real Brexit bother for Boris Johnson is coming from his father, Stanley.  He's irked about travel restrictions that will come into force on January 1, preventing Britons from spending more than 90 days in every six-month period at a holiday home in the EU. Stanley owns a villa in Greece.  'This is an issue a lot of people, myself included, are taking up,' former I'm A Celebrity contestant Stanley tells me.  'It's very complicated. This is a problem for many

coronavirus restrictions from tomorrow. MPs have now voted to approve the increased regulations that will see three tiers of restrictions applied to counties across the country.

plans are approved. Dozens of Tory MPs are furious their areas are being left under tight restrictions as England emerges from a nationwide lockdown.Up to 100 MP Tory MPs could refuse to back the measures despite an assurance they will get a review in January.Johnson is expected to win the Commons vote on the new rules but only because Labour and the SNP are to abstain on the measures.

Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has accused the UK government of intentionally destroying the night life sector through the introduction of new coronavirus restrictions.The sector argues it will be among the hardest hit through Boris Johnson’s revised three-tier system, which the PM outlined in a virtual statement to the Commons last week.The new rules, which are due to come in to force from Wednesday (December 2), will see non-essential retail and personal care providers, such as

indyref2 should take place in 2021 if it is “safe” and claimed Boris Johnson would not block another vote.However, in an interview with the Daily Record, he declined to be drawn on the broken relationship between Sturgeon and Alex Salmond.He also refused to say whether he would campaign alongside the former SNP leader if there was a referendum.The SNP’s virtual conference starts today amid calls by senior party figures for another vote on Scotland’s constitutional future.Indyref2 will be central