Labour shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, said yesterday that he believes it is unlikely that any cross-party Brexit deal will pass through Parliament unless it includes an agreement to hold a second referendum on leaving the EU. Starmer also said he fears that Labour will lose the support of remainers at this month’s EU elections.
The big winner at last night’s TV Bafta awards was darkly comic thriller series Killing Eve, which won three awards: best leading actress, supporting actress and drama series. Star Jodie Comer was in tears as she collected her first Bafta and paid tribute to writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who greeted her own success with the exclamation: “F**k!”
Theresa May has vowed to end the “postcode lottery” faced by ex-partners and children of abusers, creating a legal duty for councils in England to provide refuges for domestic abuse survivors. Survivor and refuge manager Charlotte Kneer said the decision was “absolutely momentous” and told the BBC she cried on hearing the news.
Plans to ban the ‘farming’ of puppies and kittens for sale are to be confirmed today. Environment Secretary Michael Gove said the new law, which bans the sale of kittens and puppies from third parties, would make sure pets had “the best possible start in life”. Animals must now be born in a safe environment and sold directly from there.
There is sluggish demand for electric cars in the UK, while drivers have bought twice as many proportionately in France and Germany, after the government slashed grants available to buyers. The Times says the latest sales figures raise questions about whether Britain can reach its targets for phasing out new petrol and diesel cars.
After a sharp increase in the number of lorry crashes, police have started driving British motorways in their own lorry cabs, filming behaviour including a trucker travelling at speed with his mobile phone in one hand and a credit card in the other. The cabs give police the height they need, so that cameras can see into lorries alongside them.
Film director Danny Boyle, said to have turned down a knighthood for his work on the Olympics opening ceremony, has spoken of his desire to capture the “forgotten” seaside towns on the east coast of England in his new movie, Yesterday. The Beatles-themed film stars Himesh Patel and was written by Love Actually’s Richard Curtis.
A university library in Australia was evacuated because a piece of the famously malodorous Asian fruit durian had been left near an air conditioning intake. Fire and rescue teams took an hour to find the source of the “strong smell of gas” in the University of Canberra library on Friday. The durian is said by some to smell of rotting meat.
Robert De Niro has filmed an advert for bakers Warburtons, an unlikely tie-up for the Hollywood legend and the Lancashire-based bread producer. De Niro plays a blend of his Mafia roles for the new commercial, appearing alongside the firm’s chairman, Jonathan Warburton. The baker has previously used Sylvester Stallone in ads.
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