Brexit

Letters: An open letter on Brexit

Very few people living today voted in the first referendum of June 1975. No political party has ever mentioned the referendum of 2017 [sic] was the 2nd...

Brexit and GDPR may be tiresome but businesses mustn’t bury their head in the sand

Brexit is probably a more unwelcome word than “GDPR” was last year. Put the two together and you instantly lose the attention of most people. That head-in-the-sand approach...

Bedfordshire Lib Dems launch their Brexit-stopping manifesto

At a campaign launch on Tuesday, local Liberal Democrat party members endorsed their national manifesto ahead of December's general election.​

Brexit Party will no longer contest seats in NE or Mid Beds constituencies

Following an announcement today by Nigel Farage, the Brexit Party will no longer be fielding candidates in the North East Bedfordshire and Mid Beds...

‘Marginal’ Bedford prepares for a general election on 12 December

Bedford and the rest of the UK will be heading to the polls on Thursday 12 December as Parliament voted yesterday (Monday) to hold a general election.

As parliament debates the new Brexit deal, our MPs give their views

Bedford Borough's MPs are in Parliament today - for the first time on a Saturday in 37 years - for a crunch debate on the Prime Ministers Brexit deal.

Bedford’s political parties respond to Supreme Court ruling

After eleven Supreme Court judges unanimously ruled today that the Prime Minister's progrogation of parliament was unlawful, we asked Bedford's MP, MEP...

Staff crisis to push NHS to the brink in event of no-deal Brexit

The Operation Yellowhammer documents the Government were forced to publish this month starkly reveal the risk posed to the NHS of a no-deal Brexit...

“I will walk out of here looking up at the sky, not down at my shoes” says rebel MP Burt

In his first speech as an independent member for North East Bedfordshire, Alistair Burt MP stated a no-deal Brexit would be ‘catastrophic' for Ireland and...

Letters: The majority of Alistair Burt voters are in favour of Brexit

Whilst it is very politically correct for local fellow politicians to commiserate with the MP for NE Beds, is it not more pertinent to know what his...

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