BREAKING: British government suspends Parliament until Oct. 14, a little more than two weeks before Oct. 31 Brexit deadline.
The British government has formally suspended Parliament, sending lawmakers home for five weeks amid a Brexit crisis.
A total of 293 of the 650 House of Commons members backed the proposal, well short of the two-thirds majority needed. Opposition lawmakers voted against the measure or abstained. Johnson says he is cutting short the parliamentary term so he can outline his domestic agenda at a new session of Parliament in October.U.K. House of Commons Speaker John Bercow says he will step down by the end of next month after a decade in the job.
Edouard Philippe said in a statement after a special meeting of ministers closely involved with Brexit that France is “preparing for all scenarios” in close cooperation with its European partners. They met privately over breakfast and then joined their delegations for more talks about how to deal with the difficult question of how to deal with the Irish border once Britain leaves the European Union.
The increase reported by the Office for National Statistics follows a 0.2% contraction in the second quarter which stoked talk of a recession, widely defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. The bureau says that U.K. investment in the Netherlands was 14 billion euros in 2016. It more than doubled in 2017 and rose to 80 billion euros in 2018.
Maas reiterated that Britain will remain an “important strategic partner” with “extraordinarily close relations” to Germany after Brexit. But he didn’t address the possibility of a delay to Britain’s withdrawal beyond the current Oct. 31 deadline, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s opponents want to force.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Ireland’s leader that a Brexit deal can be reached so Britain leaves the European Union by Oct. 31.
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