Brexit

Keir Starmer and allies fear Tory ‘scorched earth’ diplomacy will leave them with a mountain to climb if they take power

Business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new Brexit Freedoms Bill claims replacing or repealing all retained EU laws will bring unfettered growth. It’s dangerous and untrue

Many of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans are detailed in an economically illiterate pamphlet they published 10 years ago this month

The percentage per country who have a negative view of the EU

Red tape continues to frustrate small businesses as the hunt for the sunlit uplands goes on

He wasn't happy about choosing between taking his researchers or his relatives into Westminster Hall with him

Labour’s leader is perceived to be sitting on his hands over Europe. But private discussions with European leaders tell a different story

The lucrative UK/US trade deal is dead - so will it Liz Truss now press ahead with ripping up parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol?

What the US playwright can teach us about Britain’s falling currency and fading international reputation

Liz Truss looks set to follow in the footsteps of her predecessor and play to the crowd rather than take her responsibilities seriously

A certain group of Brexiteers have got everything they wanted - but they still yearn for the impossible

After Brexit killed freedom of movement, how easy is it to live in the EU for Brits in despair?

Boris Johnson wants to be remembered as a great man of British political history. So how does his scorecard look?

Former home secretary Alan Johnson returns with a new novel and some dissenting thoughts on Brexit, Corbyn and Starmer

An exclusive poll shows that 60% of voters – including 46% of Leave voters – think Boris Johnson has failed on Brexit

Truss is preparing to form a cabinet filled with failures, opportunists and third-raters while we watch on helplessly

Any political obituary of the disgraced soon-to-be ex-PM has to start with his inability to tell the truth

Liz Truss is promising a bonfire of rules and regulations. But every other prime minister has tried that and failed – for good reason

The government’s chief illusionist waves his bureaucracy-busting wand at the British state and suggests some services may be surplus to requirements

Hundreds of animals have been grounded by new rules governing breeding programmes with European zoos

The world’s advanced economies are coming back to life after Covid... with a notable exception

Travellers have suffered through long delays on the M20 heading into the port. But even more red tape is on the way

The man who wants to rip up his own deal with Europe is wrong about our absolute right to drive

Liz Truss’s promises are as empty, illogical and deceitful as Boris Johnson’s. No wonder she’s favourite to win the Tory leadership

Both Tory leadership contenders clearly want to be tough on immigration to appease the many ultras in their party, writes one reader

The death of David Trimble comes as his historic legacy has never seemed under greater threat

As the Conservative leadership race narrows down to the final five, we look for clues to how the next prime minister might approach Brexit

What will Boris Johnson’s departure mean for the Northern Ireland Protocol and the government’s plans to rewrite it?

Long after he is forgotten, his legacy of Brexit will still be with us. That is the real tragedy and why I feel unable to celebrate his departure

The ongoing impasse over the Northern Ireland protocol is in no one’s interest, the European Commission's vice president has said

Boris Johnson’s days as prime minister may be finally numbered but the damage his government has done will live on, not least in the scientific community where over 100 prestigious EU grants have been withdrawn as the row over the Northern Ireland Protocol poisons relations

It is time to shout out the B-word and admit that Brexit isn’t working, says one reader