“The European Union must rediscover the strength at its roots, a creativity and a healthy disunity, of giving more independence and more freedom to the countries of the union”, the pontiff told reporters as he flew home from Armenia. “But let’s not throw out the baby with the bathwater”. The key, he said, is to rekindle the will to stay together with “creativity and new life”.
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A sign urging people to vote “Remain” in last week’s referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union, is pictured in the village of St Boswells, Scotland close to the border between England and Scotland on June 26, 2016.
“As much as I respect you as a man of principle, I do not believe you have the capacity to shape the answers our country is demanding and I believe that if we are to form the next Government, a change of leadership is essential”, Heidi Alexander wrote to Corbyn in a letter she posted on Twitter.
The opposite is true for the leader of the British opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, who is under increasing pressure to step down because of the referendum result.
The dissidents want Corbyn, who represents the far-left wing of the Labour party, out before the next general election, which may happen sooner than expected because of the Brexit turmoil.
According to a Labour spokesman, Corbyn had “lost confidence” in Benn.
“If a general election is called later this year, which is a very real prospect, we believe that under Jeremy’s leadership we could be looking at political oblivion”, she said.
In a tough talking statement Mr Corbyn insisted he would fight for his job and contest any leadership challenge.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would “consider” advising the Scottish Parliament to try to use its power to prevent Britain from actually leaving the EU.
Sturgeon, along with leaders in Northern Ireland, is seeking ways to keep ties with the European Union despite the Brexit vote.
Merkel will host French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Berlin on Monday.
Orban spoke at a swearing-in ceremony of new graduates of the National University of Public Service.
“Jeremy’s not going anywhere”, he told the BBC’s Sunday Politics.
Any challenger to Corbyn would need the support of 20 percent of the party’s 229 MPs and it would then be put to party members, who are strongly supportive of the leader.
Corbyn faces a vote of confidence by two lower-ranking Labor legislators.
Top EU officials have repeatedly pressed Britain for a quick exit to avoid a period of uncertainty for the remaining 27 EU countries.
Sturgeon has said that in light of the Brexit vote result, a referendum for Scotland to leave the U.K.is on the table.
Jeremy Corbyn, party’s leader, fired his shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, on Sunday after reports that Benn was planning a coup against his leadership.
Hours after Benn’s sacking, shadow health secretary Alexander, who joined Corbyn’s shadow cabinet past year, tweeted: “It is with a heavy heart that I have this morning resigned from the shadow cabinet”.
Corbyn, widely criticised for his lukewarm support for the Remain camp, said he will not betray the trust of the party members who elected him, and vowed to “reshape” his shadow cabinet starting on Monday.
Mr Benn, who has been at odds with Mr Corbyn since they took opposing sides in the Commons vote on military action in Syria, said the party needs “strong and effective leadership” in the wake of the referendum vote.
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On another occasion, Corbyn’s office backed out on a promise to give journalists pro-EU comments for the Sunday newspapers ahead of the vote, sources claimed.
