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If you want to receive twice-daily briefings like this by email, sign up to the Front Page newsletter here. Labour leader backs hard-Left plotting 'unrest of Poll Tax riots' It is a hard-Left plot to "shut down the streets", by whipping up the biggest act of civil disobedience in decades. Jeremy Corbyn has endorsed the protest at Boris Johnson's Brexit plans, urging his MPs to join demonstrators planning to "occupy bridges and blockade roads". Political Editor Gordon Rayner has full details of the Momentum-backed events that are aiming to bring chaos to 10 major cities tomorrow in what some activists have likened to the 1990 Poll Tax riots. See cartoonist Matt's take on the Brexit outrage. It comes as a survey suggests support for Labour among students has dropped to its lowest level in four years. What is the reason behind the decrease? Read on for more. Meanwhile, The Telegraph has learnt Commons Speaker John Bercow broke off … [Read more...] about Friday morning news briefing: ‘Shut down the streets’

30 May 2019 • 7:53am Michel Barnier: Withdrawal Agreement 'only option' for orderly Brexit Jeremy Hunt: 'Ultra hardliner' would fail in Brexit renegotiation Matt Hancock: 'Not against' no deal  - but it 'won't happen' Rory Stewart admits smoking opium in Iran as he continues tour of UK   Priti Patel: It's time to make the Conservative Party Conservative again Sign up: Brexit Whatsapp updates and the Brexit Bulletin​ Michel Barnier said the existing Withdrawal Agreement is "the only option" for the UK if it wants to leave the EU in an orderly fashion as he blamed British "nostalgia" for the 2016 Brexit vote. The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator said the UK could also opt to remain a member of the bloc or decide... To continue reading this article Start your free trial of Premium Access all Premium articles  Subscriber-only events  Cancel any time Free for 30 days then only £2 per week Try … [Read more...] about brexit latest news conservative party tory leadership

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on U.S. reaction to the apparent chemical attack in Syria (all times local):6:50 p.m.President Donald Trump says he'll "forcefully" respond to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.Trump made the remark in the Cabinet Room of the White House during a meeting Monday evening with his top military leaders, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford.Officials are trying to determine whether Syrian President Bashar Assad's government was behind Saturday's suspected chemical weapons attack on rebel-held Douma, east of Damascus.Trump says the attack "will be met and it will be met forcefully."Trump said earlier that he would soon make a decision on how to respond, and against whom.———4 p.m.A U.S. official says the United States is examining "how best to deal with" Syria's upcoming presidency of the U.N.'s top forum on disarmament in the wake of an alleged chemical weapons … [Read more...] about The Latest: Trump says Syria attack will be met ‘forcefully’

WASHINGTON – The world is full of snakes, and President Trump just got bit by the same one that bit his predecessor. Syrian strongman Bashar Assad, seemingly emboldened by Trump's desire to withdraw troops from Syria, appears to have authorized a chemical attack Saturday in the Syrian city of Douma, killing 40. If that sounds familiar, perhaps it's because Assad, unafraid of then-President Obama's empty threats, staged chemical gas attacks against his own people five times in the waning years of the Obama administration. There is a pattern here that ought to concern every American. When a president vacillates – or simply talks too much – snakes like Assad tend to strike. Now you might be asking: Why should we even care about Assad, or about Syria, which has been a quagmire for six years? The answer is simple: No one should want the use of chemical weapons to become the new normal. Some 38 nations voted to ban the use of chemical weapons in 1925, and for good reason. … [Read more...] about The Briefing: The Syrian snake that bites U.S. presidents

WASHINGTON — Being Mark Zuckerberg means always having to say you're sorry. The Facebook founder did more of that Tuesday as he testified before two Senate committees. And he'll likely do even more of it before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, where Rep. Chris Collins, a Clarence Republican, will be among the lawmakers asking questions. "I'm sure that what we're going to hear – call it the apology tour – Mark Zuckerberg is going to admit that things were done incorrectly, they took their eye off the ball, they're going to do better," Collins said on the Fox Business Network on Tuesday. "I call that his happy place. He'll be returning to that." Zuckerberg certainly returned to that on Tuesday. Stone-faced and cyborg-like through much of a marathon hearing, Zuckerberg repeatedly apologized for allowing the social network he founded to be misused, in some cases to the detriment of its 2.2 billion users. “We didn’t take a broad enough view … [Read more...] about The Briefing: Collins is next stop on Zuckerberg’s ‘apology tour’