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May offers Parliament a vote on UK's final Brexit deal
• PM Theresa May: Britain will be 'poorer' without EU workers
• MPs debate Brexit Bill amendments • Ministers are seeking to win over MPs who want a "meaningful" vote on Brexit terms and future trading arrangements • As we go to print, Number 10 expects to win Wednesday's crunch vote
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This headline may appear to be a bit controversial, but it is apt, especially when it is referring to the inimitable and firebrand leader Gina Miller, who had the guts and conviction to take on a Goliath called
the British establishment to court and win the battle hands down, much to the discomfiture of No 10 and her opponents. Today she is the face of the Brexit legal battle. But all these came at a
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China cash link casts a shadow over Gardiner’s conduct
Let noble thoughts come to us from every side
• UK travellers could face higher roaming charges post Brexit
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price. She had to suffer a huge backlash for her campaign. She was threatened, maltreated and hurled the choicest of all abuses on social media – which indirectly revealed
the other side or, to say, the true colours of the 'Great Britain'. Notwithstanding, Gina Miller is a household name today after her colossal Brexit legal victory gave Parliament the final say (and not the Prime Minister) Continued on page 6
Barry Gardiner, shadow international trade secretary, was in the eye of the storm when he found himself embroiled in a controversy which claimed that he has received over £180,000 in staff costs from a firm that acts as chief legal adviser to the Chinese embassy. An investigation by The Times has established that the 59-yearold shadow minister has been employing the son of the firm’s founder in his Westminster office. The payments from law firm Christine Lee & Co are partly going towards this son’s salary, parliamentary records show. The £182,284 pays
the wages of two of Mr Gardiner’s Westminster aide, one of whom is Christine Lee’s son, Daniel Wilkes, parliamentary records show. The donations began in September 2015, soon after Mr Gardiner became shadow minister for energy. Mr Gardiner has been supportive of China’s attempts to get more involved in Britain’s nuclear industry, including the Hinkley Point power plant, which is part-funded by a Chinese state energy giant. The donations from Christine Lee & Co were properly declared in the register of interests. Continued on page 5