Lets bring you some breaking news now in the past half hour, borisjohnson has announced that the uk and the eu have struck a Brexit Agreement. Writing on twitter, the Prime Minister said weve got a great new deal that takes back control , now parliament should get brexit done on saturday so we can move on to other priorities. well, the president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, said it was a fair and balanced agreement for the eu and the uk. However, the democratic unionists whose 10 votes the government might need to get the deal approved in the commons have said in response that they remain opposed to the deal. Let us been to chris, who is keeping gcioss let us been to chris, who is keeping across all of the developments here in the European Council. We had the following over the past half an hour some of the developments that have been coming in. Michelle bernier same as we have a deal, they were talking about whether as a builder isa talking about whether as a build
Unable to support it because it wasnt beneficial to the economic well being of Northern Ireland and may undermine the integrity of the union. There had been positive noises from conservative hard brexiteers who voted against theresa mays deal, although they said they wa nted mays deal, although they said they wanted to see the final text first and there is a risk the dup position might put some of. It is hugely concerning, if one part, the dup, are unwilling to support the aspects of the deal that borisjohnson is negotiating with the eu that affects Northern Ireland, there is a question as to whether that complies to the good friday agreement when it comes to consent. What is coming out of brussels is that he has actually managed to negotiate something that is even worse for our negotiate something that is even worse for oui economy negotiate something that is even worse for our economy than what theresa may had put forward. We are talking about an act of economic vandalism which would
But the s p 500 is about 3000. When we close above 3000, up. 6 , plenty of groups rallying on earnings, Morgan Stanley up 3. 5 , closing out the major banks with an excellent set of results. We have the rails rallying, and we will talk about that later on with fritz. The 10 year yield, 1. 76 . Curious about what is happening in britain, guy. Guy the deal we have in brussels is not a deal we have in belfast, so you can see this on the sterling chart. We got a deal, it was announced, sterling rockets up towards 1. 30 . Isn it is clear that the dup not going to vote for it once again, so the pound comes crashing back down, which at 1. 2838 is up on the week, but it has been a roller coaster ride. The negative pound is helping the ftse 100 out and the ftse 250 is positive on the day, an earnings story, and the dax is up by. 3 . What happened in brussels is certainly the big story of the day. Vonnie Boris Johnson has secured a deal, legal text with the European Union is now published, but h
Saved if the building had been evacuated sooner. The london fire brigade, clearly, the people running the london fire brigade need to learn the lessons and apply the lessons of this fire and previous fires. Residents flee parts of los angeles, as some of the citys wealthiest areas are threatened by wildfires. Two british men have been seriously injured in a shark attack in australia. Beware of the boks Jonny Wilkinson is urging england not to get over confident ahead of the Rugby World Cup final saying south africa are incredibly dangerous. And coming up on the programme, the team for next years Invictus Games has been announced, at a special event in london hosted by prince harry. Good morning from westminster, where in the last few minutes the labour party has signalled support for an early general election. Addressing the shadow cabinet this morning, Jeremy Corbyn said, we have now heard from the eu that the extension of article 50 to 31st january has been confirmed, so for the next
At the day in parliament. Hello and welcome to the week in parliament. Fanfare. A week billed as the biggest crunch week since, well, the last one, as Boris Johnson does a deal on brexit. But can he deliver . My governments priority has always been to secure the United Kingdoms departure from the European Union on the 31st of october. And what happens when mps let the public put the questions . Governor, you will be no doubt pleased to hear we wont be asking you immediately whether you will be appearing on strictly come dancing. But first. Borisjohnson has a brexit deal. All he has to do now is persuade mps to vote for it. The agreement was clinched on thursdayjust before european leaders met in brussels. It looks quite a lot like the deal theresa may negotiated a year ago similar price tag, too but with some important differences. The biggest change sees the irish backstop, designed to avoid a hard border, replaced by what is effectively a Customs Border in the irish sea. There would