| No Images? Click here   Boris Johnson has condemned the racism on display during the football match between England and Bulgaria Monday night as “vile”, and called on UEFA to conduct a swift investigation with tough penalties to follow, Downing Street said.Black players and backroom staff were subjected to abuse at various stages of the match, but the game was ultimately completed with England winning 6-0 in Sofia.  Labour MPs have claimed the party is “nowhere near ready” for a general election after campaign chiefs presented their latest plans for taking on Boris Johnson in a snap poll.Backbenchers hit out following a presentation by joint election co-ordinators Ian Lavery and Andrew Gwynne at the weekly meeting of the parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) in the Commons on Monday night.  The number of hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales have more than doubled in the past six years, new government statistics have revealed.Data published on Tuesday showed that 103,379 hate crimes were documented in 2018/19, up from 42,255 in 2012/13.  Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he believes the “votes are now there” in the Commons to agree a Brexit deal brought back by Boris Johnson.The Commons leader’s comments suggest hardline Brexiteer Tory MPs in the European Research Group (ERG) are still happy with the prime minister’s plan.  Donald Trump has demanded that Turkey stop its military incursion into Syria and imposed sanctions on the country, in a desperate bid to limit the damage from his own heavily-criticised foreign policy decision.In a phone call on Monday, the president told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to halt the invasion and implement an immediate ceasefire.   Back on 24 June 2016, the day of the Brexit referendum result, nobody would have predicted that Britain would still not have left the EU three years later.With the departure deadline pushed back by former prime minister Theresa May and her successor Boris Johnson, the exit date is currently set for Thursday 31 October – a priority re-confirmed in the Queen’s speech this week.  At a hustings event for Speaker candidates hosted by the Institute for Government this past Thursday, each candidate was offered an opening two minutes to set out their pitch. Given the current constitutional and political crisis and limitation on time, it was perhaps surprising that they almost universally chose to include commitments to introduce an independent complaints process against MPs.Is this a sign of progress? Candidates committing to do the right thing before taking up office is nothing new, but it would be churlish to suggest there was a lack of genuine commitment, though perhaps not demonstrated equally under questioning. To go through a miscarriage is one of the worst things a person can go through. To go through the agonising loss of miscarriage repeatedly is like discovering your womb is a ticking time bomb, just waiting to explode and shatter you to your very core.One in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, yet somehow grief for a lost unborn child sits low down on society’s list of ‘acceptable’ grief, making a devastating situation feel all the more isolating and confusing. “What do you do?” has always been a complicated question for me to answer. I’m currently a freelance writer, I’m a former film festival marketing assistant, and I work at McDonald’s.It’s my ‘anchor’ job that helps to pay my bills. I’ve worked on and off at the restaurant for over seven years, throughout college and internships, and as a means to keep pursuing my writing and film interests. There have been multiple instances where I’ve taken my resume to career experts and recruiters, who have asked me to leave McDonald’s off my work history. It’s a tightrope, as I never know if my experience will be a help or a hindrance.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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