The Waugh Zone Thursday December 7, 2017
(World News UK)

The Queen will be in Portsmouth today as guest of honour at the commissioning of the UK´s £3bn new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth. But Theresa May has reportedly cancelled her trip to the event as she focuses instead on rescuing her `Brexit breakthrough´ plan. Exactly a week away from the next EU summit, May´s most pressing problem is on getting agreement on the Northern Ireland border issue. Irish PM Leo Varadkar said she´d told him yesterday `she wants to come back to us with some text tonight or tomorrow`, though he added that `we can of course pick it up in the New Year`. And although the DUP´s Nigel Dodds described the delay suggestion as `a dangerous game`, his own party is...