Around 10,000 finance jobs will be shifted out of Britain or created overseas in the next few years if the UK is denied access to Europe’s single market, according to a Reuters survey of firms employing the bulk of workers in international finance. Frankfurt was by far the most popular destination for the new roles, the survey showed, with Paris a distant second.

Donald Trump is a “racist, misogynist bully” and should not be given a state visit to the UK, the Liberal Democrats’ Deputy Leader has said. Addressing her party’s annual conference in Bournemouth, Jo Swinson said Theresa May should withdraw the invitation to the US President. She warned against “the politics of the bully” and criticised “Faragey, Trumpy, angry, arsey, shouty slogans”. Ms Swinson said: "Trump is a bully, a misogynist and a racist. He boasts about sexually assaulting women.

Former president said Labour was expecting losses and Andrew Marr told Tories results of exit poll early, book claims.

Theresa May’s plan to “rig” Parliament to prepare for Brexit was hatched immediately after her general election disaster but kept secret, The Independent has learned.

Thousands of pro-Europe protesters are marching on Parliament in a mass demonstration against Brexit. Organisers predicted around 100,000 protesters would gather in central London's Parliament Square, where they were due to be addressed by Sir Bob Geldof and Liberal Democrat former cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey.

British retailers have called for the government to take tougher action on tackling obesity and consider mandatory measures to ensure more companies make their products healthier. Public health bosses have urged food manufacturers to make chips, pizzas, crisps and burgers healthier, and ministers are expected to issue “strong guidance” on how to reformulate products popular with children.

Britain's exit from the European Union will be the country's biggest calamity since World War Two, the former chief of staff to Brexit minister David Davis said on Wednesday, calling for a new political movement to oppose the divorce.

A second referendum to decide if the British people wish to plough ahead with Brexit is becoming more likely, says David Cameron’s former politics tutor. The further vote will become a “life raft” for Theresa May and the only solution to her mounting problems over the terms of EU withdrawal, Vernon Bogdanor predicted.

At least 15 Conservative MPs have reportedly agreed to sign a letter of no confidence in Theresa May. It comes after the Prime Minister told plotting Tory MPs “it’s me or Jeremy Corbyn” as she insisted a leadership challenge would trigger another general election. Although the letter of no confidence falls short of the 48 names required to trigger a leadership contest, Parliament’s summer break could prove critical for Ms May’s future.

A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them. This year was no different. Here are some of the worst stories Prime Minister Theresa May's government has tried to bury this week.

The Government has approved licences for arms deals to two-thirds of the countries on its own list of human rights abusers, a campaign group has said. Boris Johnson's Foreign Office released its annual human rights report on Friday including a list of 30 countries, like Bahrain, China, Saudi Arabia and Israel, it had given “priority” status in 2016.

British people living in the European Union could lose the right to live in another EU member state after Brexit, it emerged at the end of talks in Brussels. British officials raised the issue with their European counterparts during three-and-a-half days of intense technical talks. The EU made clear it would not move without a reciprocal offer for European nationals living in Britain that would allow them to move to another EU country and return to the UK.

The British government is set to launch a review on tougher sentencing for perpetrators of acid attacks after Home Secretary Amber Rudd said those found guilty should "feel the full force of the law." Rudd announced the move in the aftermath of the latest acid attack to hit the streets in London, in which five men were attacked over a 70-minute period on Thursday.

Donald Trump reportedly told Theresa May he will not make a state visit to the UK until he is guaranteed a "better reception". The US President asked the Prime Minister to prepare a "warm welcome" before he agrees to set a date, it has been claimed.  The pair spoke on the phone to discuss the planned state visit, which has now been postponed until next year. 

Theresa May has revealed she shed a "little tear" when she learned the result of the election exit poll suggesting she would lose her majority. The prime minister said her husband Philip told her the news - and it came as a "complete shock". "It took a few minutes for it to sink in," she told BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett, because "we didn't see that result coming".

Donald Trump‘s state visit to the UK will take place next year, senior Government sources have told The Independent. It is also possible the US President may make an unofficial visit before then, possibly to one of his two golf courses in Scotland. When asked when he plans to come to London at the G20 summit in Hamburg last weekend, Mr Trump said: “We’ll work that out.”

UK government arms sales to Saudi Arabia are lawful, the High Court has ruled, after seeing secret evidence. The court rejected campaigners' claims ministers were acting illegally by not suspending weapon sales to the kingdom, which is fighting a war in Yemen.

Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, has said he still holds out hope that Brexit can be reversed, despite official talks starting this week. The senior politician said he had been asked by British friends if there was a way to stop or reverse Britain’s exit from the EU. Mr Tusk said: “I told them that in fact the EU was built on dreams that seemed impossible to achieve.

A new poll shows that 69% of respondents disagree with the Prime Minister's "Hard Brexit" policy of leaving the European Union customs union. The poll, carried out by polling organisation Survation and published in The Mail On Sunday, found that core parts of the Prime Minister's Brexit strategy are unpopular amongst the public.

Theresa May is facing a mounting backlash over her "catastrophic" election campaign from her own party.