Theresa Kufuor: Ghana’s former first lady was a quiet and unobtrusive champion of change: Flags have been flying at half mast in Ghana in tribute to Theresa Kufuor, the wife of John Agyekum Kufuor, president of Ghana from 2000 to 2008. Born Theresa Mensah, the former first lady passed away on 1 October at the …
Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Theresa May (and soon Nicola Sturgeon): the strange backbench lives of former national leaders: UK Parliament/Flickr, CC BY-NC Former prime ministers are currently making a habit of intervening in government policy. Boris Johnson deployed sources to urge current prime minister Rishi Sunak not to abandon his Brexit policies and to send …
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Theresa May joint worst post-war prime minister, say historians and politics professors in new survey: Theresa May has been rated as one of the worst two post-war prime ministers in a survey of UK university academics specialising in British politics and contemporary British history. She comes bottom in the prime-ministerial “league table” alongside Anthony Eden, …
South Africa in the news: Theresa May – page 193: Latest news on British Prime Minister and Conservative leader Theresa May after she became PM in July 2016. On Friday 7 June 2019, Theresa May will stand down as leader of the Conservative Party.: “South Africa” – BingNews Furious parents demand a 0 refund from …
Check out this Port Elizabeth image: Prime Minister Theresa May visits HMS Queen Elizabeth. Image by QEClassCarriers Britain’s future flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed into her home port of Portsmouth for the first time on Wednesday 16 August. Greeted by thousands of people lining the Portsmouth seafront, the 65,000-tonne carrier was met with the warmest …
Theresa May loses another Brexit vote: here’s why April 12 is now the key date to watch: On the day that the United Kingdom was supposed to exit from the European Union, members of parliament effectively voted down Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time, despite her attempts to change the substance of the …
Brexit Q+A: Theresa May offers to stand down as British prime minister, but there’s a catch: Why did the prime minister feel she needed to announce that she will stand down? The prime minister offered this pledge as a last resort in the hope that it would help her pass her Brexit agreement through parliament. …
Theresa May is right about one thing – it’s time politicians worked together on Brexit: Brexit increasingly looks like a train crash in slow motion. Watching the British parliament going through consecutive Brexit votes, however, only to end up back where it started, is more like an ever repeating loop of the moments just before …
Theresa May loses another Brexit vote – is it time she just gave up?: Hands up if you've had enough of all this. EPA With just over two weeks to go until Brexit, Theresa May has once again failed to get her Brexit deal through parliament, leaving complete uncertainty about where the nation goes next. …
Theresa May Brexit deal hammered in parliament, but be wary of prospects of a new ‘consensus’ approach: Another day, another record. The 230 majority against the motion to approve Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement on the UK’s exit from the EU smashes pretty much any parliamentary record one cares to discover. That May’s immediate response was …
Brexit: what does the latest parliamentary upset mean for Theresa May?: A cross-parliamentary group of MPs has struck again, landing another major blow against the government ahead of the vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal on January 15. The manoeuvre changes the parliamentary timetable to give the prime minister just three days to come up …
Postponing the Brexit vote: an odd decision that makes Theresa May look weak: The Westminster bubble has been gripped by Theresa May’s dilemma for weeks: committed to having a vote on the deal she negotiated to leave the European Union, but facing almost certain defeat. Endless flowcharts have been drawn, pundits mined for information, and …
Theresa May’s dog-whistle rhetoric on EU citizens jumping the queue – and its effect on my four-year-old: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock “Daddy, have we jumped the queue?” She looked at me with her big inquisitive eyes, a little confused and worried. Matilda is four and in reception class. She’s learning a lot of fascinating things at the moment, …
Theresa May’s Brexit deal: here’s how the factions want to rewrite it: After a week of high drama, even by the usual standards of Brexit, we find ourselves with something of a conundrum. On the one hand, no one in parliament seems to like the text of the Withdrawal Agreement that Theresa May has brought …
Theresa May’s Brexit deal is dead in the water – now what for Britain?: The contrast between what she said and the way she said it was stark. In a subdued, almost reticent way, Theresa May told the nation on the steps of 10 Downing Street on November 14 that she “believed with her head …
Is Theresa May really about to end austerity? You might need to ask the rest of her party: Until recent years, the word “austerity” was associated with the hardship, rationing and lack of basic resources experienced in the aftermath of World War II. However, since the 2008 global economic crash, successive UK governments of all …
This is why Brexit is so hard – and why there’s really only one option left for Theresa May: As the government faces an impasse in its Brexit negotiations with the European Union and ramps up preparations for crashing out, many citizens are mystified why Westminster is so absorbed in fights over seemingly technical details. …