Brexit

Fifty years ago this month, the House of Commons voted for Edward Heath’s plan to take Britain into the common market. For a notoriously reticent PM it was a night of extreme emotion. The UK’s tragedy is that he never conveyed that emotion to the nation.

João Vale de Almeida's lengthy recognition process, however, may signal that a diplomatic winter is imminent.

The pro-Brexit Daily Express has been quick to complain about 'expats' having to go back to where they once came from...

Boris Johnson and his cronies say the current multi-layered crises facing Britain are both nothing to do with Brexit and everything to do with it, thus exposing the incoherence at the heart of the project since the start.

Brexit is causing a pile-up of pigs on farms - with farmers unable to afford to feed them.

Will people now start to wake up to the Covid and Brexit crises?

Comedian MITCH BENN suggests alternative ideas for the next James Bond film.

Schadenfreude might seem harmless, but there's a difference between a temporary feeling and living your whole life gloating about it.

The PM has been wildly blaming others for the causes of the country’s crises. But this misdiagnosis only guarantees more pain.

Boris Johnson gives reality cold shrift as Britain enters its Brexit Winter of Discontent.

The surviving Conservative Remainers have had little choice but to back some sort of Brexit, but their complete silence on the issue is shaming.

The news anchor becomes the latest voice to try to distance himself from the Brexit disaster.

Britain previously relied on foresters from Eastern Europe. Brexit is now putting its stock of Christmas trees at risk.

Using the pandemic as a cover story for Britain's post-Brexit woes is contemptible

Remember when Boris Johnson claimed in 2016 that 'fuel bills will be lower' if the UK voted for Brexit?

MITCH BENN imagines what will happen next if lorry driver training standards are relaxed.

Britain faces a shortage of pumpkins this Halloween, and fewer fireworks on November 5.

How will shoppers adapt to empty shelves in supermarkets? NIGEL WARBURTON, one of the world’s most-read philosophers, offers his thoughts.

STEVE RICHARDS’ new book profiles 11 politicians who came close to getting into Number 10. But only one, he argues, would have truly changed British history...

It has been a gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as the smell of rotting and burning produce hits the nostrils of all. Or not quite...

JAMES BALL examines the areas where Britain is now feeling the painful consequences of its departure from the EU.

The UK’s supply chains face more problems every day. So why the denial over what helped cause this, and where is the strategy that will resolve it?

Pubs could run out of beer over the bank holiday weekend days after Nando's were forced to close due to a lack of chicken.

Eight months after the end of the transition period, how are UK companies faring outside the EU? MARK MARDELL investigates

Fast-food chain KFC and German potato farmers face interruptions to normal service after a shortage of lorry drivers

More food shortages and higher prices are likely to be the result of new Brexit checks that come into effect from October 1

Supermarket shortages are being blamed on the 'pingdemic' - but Brexit must take its share of responsibility after 25,000 lorry drivers returned to the EU

Brexit minister Lord Frost has a reputation as Boris Johnson’s trusted, protected henchman. But his vulnerability, as well as his shortcomings, are increasingly being exposed.

Brexit and a risky Covid strategy means that the UK is the focus of close global attention this summer. Rashmee Roshan Lall reports on what the rest of the world is saying

Bonnie Greer explains why the data held by the NHS makes it so attractive to US big pharma – and why Boris Johnson could use it for leverage in a trade deal Before I saw the video of Daniel Hannan, now Baron Hannan of Kingsclere and an advisor to the Board of Trade, disparaging the […]

The costs of Brexit continue to mount – and they dwarf what Boris Johnson has set aside for “levelling up” in the regions It has been a gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as the Brexit waste goes on and on without ever making sense – a bit like Boris Johnson’s speech […]

It’s a decade since the demise of the News of the World and today’s toothless tabloids are a shadow of their former ferocious selves. Should we mourn or celebrate their decline? And could they have stopped Brexit?  They were the cheeky chappies, rumbustious and irreverent, saucier than a Donald McGill postcard; always game to poke […]