Prime Minister Theresa May faced calls to publish the legal advice setting out how the UK could end a ‘backstop’ customs arrangement with the EU. Theresa May has faced demands from both her own Cabinet and her Democratic Unionist Party allies to show the full legal advice behind her Brexit plans. The Cabinet is on stand-by […]

MPs, Councillors and civil servants suspected of corruption are to be targeted by a new law proposed by the home secretary. Theresa May intends to establish an offence of “illicit enrichment” for cases where a public official’s assets have increased significantly without satisfactory explanation. It is part of a wider shake-up of measures to tackle […]