"These emergency evacuation plans have been in existence since the Cold War, but have now been repurposed in the event of civil disorder following a no-deal Brexit," the Sunday Times said, quoting an unnamed source from the government's Cabinet Office, which handles sensitive administrative issues.
May, writing in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper, shed little light on how she intended to solve the issue that has provoked most opposition from her lawmakers, post-Brexit arrangements for the border between the United Kingdom and Ireland. Last month May suffered a record parliament defeat over her Brexit plans, and on Tuesday lawmakers instructed her to return to Brussels to renegotiate arrangements for Northern Ireland.
The Pakistan foreign minister will be attending a conference on Monday on Kashmir and an exhibition on Kashmir at the InterContinental hotel Park Lane on Tuesday, said a spokesman for the Pakistan high commission in London.
A burglar who had sex with a corpse in an English funeral home he broke into was jailed Friday for six years. A judge in the industrial city of Birmingham said Kasim Khuram's crime "offended all human sensibility". The man was found to have been both drunk and high on artificial cannabis and PCP at the time. The 23-year-old pleaded guilty during at an earlier hearing.
Britain is scheduled to exit the EU on March 29 — the first country ever to do so — but an agreement governing its departure is held up in British Parliament, mostly due to a border measure known as the Irish "backstop." On Tuesday, PM May won backing from Parliament to reopen negotiations over the withdrawal deal.
In a series of votes on Tuesday, lawmakers rejected a no-deal Brexit by 318 votes to 310, undermining the government's argument that Britain would be willing to crash out of the EU without an agreement.
The UK Parliament will vote on a crucial set of amendments later on Tuesday to determine the future course of Brexit as British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to go back to the European Union (EU) to reopen negotiations on a legally-binding withdrawal agreement.
The Brexit deal between London and Brussels — overwhelmingly rejected this month by British MPs — contains a so-called backstop provision ensuring that if all else fails, the border will remain open.
With less than nine weeks until the United Kingdom is due by law to leave the European Union on March 29, there is no agreement yet in London on how and even whether to leave the world’s biggest trading bloc.
Prince Philip, 97, has apologised to a woman who was injured when the car she was riding in collided with a Land Rover that he was driving.Philip said he was dazzled by the sun when he entered a main road. Philip was unhurt although his car flipped over. He was not charged with any infraction and continues to drive.
