The intervention by the British House of Commons speaker John Bercow caught everyone by surprise, no one more so than Theresa May.

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has questioned whether British Tory MP David Davis actually understands Brexit issues and has warned that the deal to prevent a hard border in the North is a “fudge”.j

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has questioned whether David Davis understands the Brexit issues.

Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as leader of the Labour Party in the UK.

Jeremy Corbyn has urged Labour MPs in the UK to unite behind him if, as expected, he is returned as party leader with an even bigger mandate from grassroots members.

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the UK Labour Party, has attacked the wave of his MPs who have quit his top team for “indulging in internal” manoeuvring.

Minister for Public Expenditure, Paschal Donohoe, has confirmed Irish economic growth will be hit by the British decision to leave the EU — but he stopped short of fully ruling out a recession.

A pro-Brexit campaign has sparked a furious reaction by drawing links between the killing of at least 50 people in a US nightclub and the EU referendum debate.

Boris Johnson faced a furious political backlash after he compared European Union efforts to build a federal super state to Hitler’s plans to dominate the continent.

It is the west’s blind myopia that leads it to go to war in the Middle East, with disastrous consequences, argues JP O’Malley on reading an account of Islamism which shows that, as an ideology, it is growing further apart.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson is to join the campaign for Britain to leave the EU.

British war planes are poised to begin a bombing campaign in Syria tonight after MPs overwhelmingly backed military action against Islamic State.

Jeremy Corbyn will face a “bumpy ride” as Labour leader as major policy divisions emerged within his newly appointed senior team, a shadow cabinet minister has acknowledged.

The upsurge of migrants heading to Europe from Africa is threatening to undermine living standards and social structures in the EU, British foreign secretary Philip Hammond has warned.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after a long-serving teacher was repeatedly stabbed to death at a school in front of her pupils.

Voting opens in Labour’s shadow cabinet elections today, with 49 MPs battling for a place in Ed Miliband’s top team.

SENIOR Labour figures were last night at odds over calls for the party’s supporters to vote tactically in order to keep the Tories out of power.

Police in the UK are investigating the death of Labour MP Ashok Kumar whose body was found by officers at his home earlier today.

IRISH agriculture has a key strategic role in contributing to British and European Union food security, the Irish Farmers Association president Padraig Walshe declared yesterday.

AS GORDON Brown was getting the better of David Cameron at prime minister’s questions, the television news channels flashed up the breaking news that two former cabinet ministers were demanding a secret ballot on whether he should remain as Labour leader.

ENSURING food security is just as important to the world’s future as energy supply, British Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Hilary Benn, told delegates at the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday.

BRITAIN’S first major food strategy for 60 years, which Environment Secretary Hilary Benn will launch at the Oxford Farming Conference today, will call for a sea change in the way people think about farming.

CLIMATE change could lead to a rise in average summer temperatures in parts of Britain that is nearly double the level which the EU and others say is dangerous, a study said yesterday.

A group of farmers in the UK is suing two laboratories blamed for an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

THE Northern Ireland Assembly has written to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, asking him to “rein in” Peter Mandelson’s world trade negotiating tactics.

Agriculture Minister in the North Michelle Gildernew was today heading for a showdown with her UK counterpart and EU Commissioner Peter Mandelson.

NEGOTIATORS from 187 countries have agreed to launch talks which, it is hoped, will lead to a new international climate change deal.

Campaigners tonight urged countries to name and shame the US for its “blatant attempts to derail” the negotiations for an international deal on climate change.

FARM leaders in Ireland yesterday warned that a possible new leak of foot and mouth disease in Britain was a matter of great concern.

The strain of bird flu found in turkeys on a farm in England is the highly pathogenic H5N1 type, acting chief veterinary officer Fred Landeg said today.

The east coast of England is bracing itself for potentially life-threatening flooding this morning although the Environment Agency said water levels are not as high as originally feared.

The east coast of England was tonight bracing itself for severe flooding as a tidal surge made its way in from the North Sea.

The battle to deal with climate change needs to be fought like “World War Three”, the head of the Environment Agency warned today.

Two new cases of bluetongue disease have been confirmed, British Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced today.

A fifth animal is being culled tonight in the UK after testing positive for bluetongue, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said tonight.

Fears of “enormous economic consequences” for the livestock industry have been raised as tests indicate the virus strain in the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak is the same as that which infected two herds last month.

Official reports into the recent foot-and-mouth outbreak are being published today – and are expected to say faulty drainage pipes at a nearby laboratory could have released the disease.

There is a “strong possibility” that the Pirbright laboratory facility is the source of the foot-and-mouth outbreak, it was announced tonight.