| No Images? Click here   Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last 24 hours (and who could blame you?), you’ve probably heard about all the drama going down in the House of Commons.Last night, MPs successfully pushed a bill to block a no-deal Brexit through the Commons. If it passes, it means Boris “do or die Brexit” Johnson would be forced to ask the EU for an extension to the October 31 Brexit deadline – something he is *seriously* against.  Jo Johnson, Boris Johnson’s brother, has resigned as a minister and will step down as an MP, saying he was “torn between family loyalty and the national interest”.The shock announcement adds to the pressure on the prime minister, injecting a family feud into the political crisis in Westminster.  Chancellor Sajid Javid has said Boris Johnson should allow the MPs he purged from the Conservative Party a way back in.The prime minister stripped 21 backbenchers of the whip after they voted in favour of a move to block a no-deal Brexit on October 31.  Dismay turned to delight for holidaymakers on a delayed flight to Alicante when an off-duty easyJet pilot who was also on board stepped up and flew the plane himself.Michael Bradley was among passengers waiting to travel from Manchester on Monday when a missing captain forced delays to the easyJet flight.  “Sharpie” memes have flooded Twitter, showing how President Donald Trump could resolve all his problems by editing them with a marker.It all began with a hurricane briefing in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon when the president held up a map showing Hurricane Dorian’s trajectory that appeared edited to show the storm potentially affecting a portion of Alabama.   Vegan and vegetarian diets are linked to a lower risk of heart disease, but may increase the risk of stroke, a new study suggests.People who follow plant-based diets have a 22% lower risk of heart disease than meat eaters, researchers from the University of Oxford found, while pescatarians have 13% reduced risk of heart disease.  There is no widely agreed upon definition of a ‘constitutional crisis’. But that isn’t enough to stop the term cropping up with alarming regularity – the US seems to have experienced about a half dozen since the election of President Trump if newspaper headlines are to be believed. And following Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament and this week’s votes in the Commons, the term is seeping back into UK discussion.In reality a constitutional crisis is best defined in the same way that a US Supreme Court Justice once defined hardcore pornography: “you know it when you see it”. There’s no doubt Phillip Lee’s defection to the Liberal Democrats was a tremendous piece of parliamentary theatre. During Boris Johnson addressing Parliament, one of his MPs quit, visibly crossed the floor and moved from a party threatening no-deal to one hoping for no-Brexit at all.In a flash, Johnson’s majority was gone, and it was the talk of Westminster for... all of two hours.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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