Veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil quits as chairman of GB News
British broadcasting veteran Andrew Neil has stepped down as chairman of GB News, just three months after he launched it amid great fanfare and an ambition to provide an alternative to an alleged “metropolitan elite” bias among the established news channels.
GB News drafts in Nigel Farage to halt ratings freefall
Nigel Farage has been drafted in to help save GB News, as the new channel attempts to reverse plummeting ratings. The former Brexit Party leader will host an hour-long primetime show from Monday to Thursday at 7pm, starting next week. Other shows will be trimmed back in duration so he will not replace any current presenters. "I will not be taking the knee on this show," Mr Farage tweeted. His arrival on a permanent basis at the station comes days after the broadcaster’s director of programming r
news.yahoo.comFishing holds key to Brexit trade deal as talks drag on
If Johnson cannot expel enough EU fishing boats from U.K. waters, a no-deal Brexit would surely ensue, creating chaos and costs for all and ruin for some. The French, Britain's fiercest political rival for access to U.K. waters, know about symbolism — and timing — too. As well as France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and Denmark are among those directly implicated by the potential closing off of U.K. waters. Deas said he expected there to be protests from disgruntled EU fishermen — especially French ones — if there is a deal that sees quotas reduced. Most agree Boulogne would be a prime target because so much U.K. fish is exported through there, and a blockade is relatively easy to achieve.
Emotions run high as the U.K. finally heads for the Brexit
London Almost four years after Britain voted in a public referendum to "Brexit," the U.K. was finally set to leave the European Union on Friday. The historic day has been greeted with some triumphant headlines in Britain, but not everyone was celebrating. As the U.K. ends its 47-year membership of the union it helped create, CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips said Britain's future remained uncertain. Some of Britain's departing Members of the European Parliament were happier than others. The U.K.'s membership in the EU is officially set to expire on Friday evening, at 6 p.m. Eastern time.
cbsnews.comNigel Farage makes huge Brexit concession
Nigel Farage, a man who many believe Brexit wouldn't have happened without, has declared that his Brexit Party will not field candidates at the UK's forthcoming election in seats currently held by Boris Johnson's Conservatives. He said that by winning these seats, the Brexit Party would be able to "keep Boris Johnson to his promises" in Parliament. He launched the Brexit party earlier this year when former PM Theresa May's plan to leave the EU was first showing signs of falling apart. It's not immediately clear that Farage's announcement today helps the Conservatives as much as it saves the Brexit Party some embarrassment. In his speech, Farage said that the Brexit Party would "take the fight" to "the Labour Party and the rest of the remainer parties".
Delivering Brexit has been impossible. stopping it will be even harder
By contrast, the Brexit vote is divided between the Conservatives and Nigel Farage's Brexit Party. Farage has been criticized for splitting the Brexit vote, leading to accusations, even from former supporters, that he has become the remain alliance's greatest asset. If he does split the vote, there is a good chance that a unified remain vote could win vital seats. The easiest, cleanest way to deliver Brexit, is if Prime Minister Boris Johnson wins a majority and gets his Brexit deal through Parliament. Where the parties might disagree is on Labour's promise to negotiate a new Brexit deal beforehand -- it doesn't look very remainish to enable a party that's negotiating a Brexit deal.
Youve heard about Brexit; now get ready for Blexit
Now an American media star has come up with a variant of that label, Blexit, short for Blacks leaving the Democratic Party. Some Republican Party supporters point, correctly, to the early Grand Old Partys anti-slavery and pro-civil rights record, which Harriot conceded. It was the party of progressive values.The Democratic Party, on the other hand, was the party of the South, Harriot continued. It opposed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. The Democratic Party is now the progressive party that welcomes immigrants and the Republican Party has become the party of small government, law and order and conservatism.
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