Prime minister began his speech by saying how rare it has been for the people to support federalism and the United States as well. I entirely agreement federalism and the belief in the superstate are as rare in this country nowadays as it is in every member of the other 27 states. Will he accept that for the last 50 years, the conservative party, the vast majority of the conservative party and all four conservative Prime Ministers in whose governments i served believed that membership of the European Union gave us a stronger voice politically in the world as one of the flee leading members of the European Union and gave us access to a free trade market but enabled us to build a strong and combative economy. So would he reassure me, as i assure him i will vote for his deal once we are given when he goes on to negotiate the eventual longterm arrangements, he will seek a conclusion solution where well the same completely open access across the channel, across the irish boarder to trade an
Are as rare in this country nowadays as it is in every member of the other 27 states. Will he accept that for the last 50 years, the conservative party, the vast majority of the conservative party and all four conservative Prime Ministers in whose governments i served believed that membership of the European Union gave us a stronger voice politically in the world as one of the flee leading members of the European Union and gave us access to a free trade market but enabled us to build a strong and combative economy. So would he reassure me, as i assure him i will vote for his deal once we are given when he goes on to negotiate the eventual longterm arrangements, he will seek a conclusion solution where well the same completely open access across the channel, across the irish boarder to trade and investment in both directions with the European Union that we have now, even if we have to sacrifice the political benefitles weve hitherto enjoyed from membership of the union . Mr. Johnson tha
Good morning and welcome to westminster on an historic session of parliament. Mps are sitting on a saturday for the first time in 37 years to vote on borisjohnsons brexit deal. This morning it still looks extremely close, although in the last few minutes the Prime Minister has received the backing of the prominent conservative brexiteers known as the European Research group who now say they will vote mps are also likely to vote on an amendment to the deal which would still force the government to seek a delay to leaving the eu, described as an insurance policy to avoid the risk of a no deal brexit. Nick eardley reports. More than three years after the brexit referendum, is today the day mps finally back a deal . Some of them hate what borisjohnson has negotiated, arguing it takes us too far away from eu rules and will damage the economy. But most tories think its a good deal that gives the uk back the control they want. Weve got the deal that allows us to get out of the backstop, thats
Here snow continues to fall in many parts of the uk, causing power cuts, School Closures and travel disruption. Coming up, how the bbc is sending journalists into schools to tackle fa ke journalists into schools to tackle fake news. Join us at 7 45pm on bbc news. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Stage one is done, next stop the beginning of talks about our future relationship with the eu, including trade. After through the night negotiations, a deal was struck first thing this morning between the uk and the eu on key areas including the irish border and the divorce bill, which downing street says will amount to between 35 and 39 billion pounds. Now, the uk can at last move on to the next stage of talks. But the head of the European Commission sounded a warning so much time has been devoted to the easier part of the negotiations, he said, now comes the hard part. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has more. While most of us slept, when hardly a soul was stirring, the residents o
Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Four serving members of the army have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a banned far right group and planning terrorist offences. The men aged between 22 and 32 were arrested this morning in england and wales in an operation involving both the police and the army. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani is here. It isa it is a fast moving story. What is the latest . It started with West Midlands Counter Terrorism unit, one of the largest in the country, working with colleagues at wales and the West Midlands. These four arrests, three in their 20s, arrested at birmingham, ipswich and northampton. The fourth, from powys. The addresses have been searched and then we discovered that these men we re then we discovered that these men were all serving members of the army. The ministry of defence has confirmed that they were serving in the army. They have been providing support to the police. We do not have information about where these