Micheál Martin and Boris Johnson spoke by phone about Brexit, Covid-19 and climate change
The UK prime minister congratulated the new taoiseach.
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The UK prime minister congratulated the new taoiseach.
Geoffrey Cox was fired from his post as attorney general, and Andrea Leadsom was sacked as business secretary.
He said that claims a no-deal Brexit would be positive were “absurd”, and called Johnson’s pledge to bin the backstop “wrecking”.
“To our friends in Ireland, I am convinced we can do a deal without checks on Irish border and without that anti-democratic backstop.”
The UK premier announced a speech after briefing her Cabinet on the latest Brexit deal draft.
EU Council President Donald Tusk has said he remains “convinced that a compromise, good for all, is still possible”.
The new Sinn Féin leader says the British Prime Minister has ‘no plan’.
“It wasn’t actually filmed here so I didn’t get a chance to see the stairs,” Varadkar said.
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The British PM met with editors and executives at 10 Downing Street to push them to set up a new independent regulatory body.
Chief whip Andrew Mitchell tendered his resignation to David Cameron this evening after he was accused of calling police officers at 10 Downing Street ‘plebs’.