Brexit

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme tonight comes from Banbury, the Oxfordshire market town famous for its cakes. But who will rise to the occasion – and who will be half-baked? Here’s who’s on the panel and where they […]

The boss of Britain’s biggest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, has launched a blistering attack on Brexit plans, warning that ‘tens of thousands’ of jobs in the car industry could be lost if the UK crashes out without a deal. Ralf Speth, the company’s chief executive, said he was concerned delays in the supply chain […]

The owner of sweet maker Cadbury has said it is stockpiling ingredients and finished chocolate bars and biscuits in case Britain crashes out of the EU with no deal. Hubert Weber, president of Mondelez Europe, which owns Cadbury, said: ‘Like the whole of the food and drink industry in the UK, we would prefer a […]

Hardline Brexiteers have been attacked as “barmy” after drawing up plans for a squad of tax inspectors to roam Northern Ireland after Britain leaves the EU. According to plans revealed by the Sun newspaper, the European Research Group of Brexiteers believe a hard border be avoided by something called ‘Inland Clearance’ which would see goods […]

Cats and dogs would be stranded on the continent for weeks in the event of a no-deal Brexit, leaked contingency plans have revealed. Proposals set for publication this week, but leaked to today’s Sun newspaper, warn that a replacement to the EU’s Pet Passport would take months to negotiate, leaving animals unable to travel across […]

Jacob Rees-Mogg has been rubbished for “back of a napkin” economics after claiming a no-deal Brexit would boost the British economy by £1.1 trillion. The leader of the Conservatives’ hardline European Research Group will make a speech today claiming no-deal would boost the economy by the figure over 15 years, arguing that crashing out of […]

Politics is getting in the way of good government and Brexit is the result, says AC GRAYLING in a powerful essay Did you know that if the House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence in the government, that vote has to be repeated two weeks later in case any MPs have changed their […]

Mark Carney is to stay on as Bank of England governor until January 2020, chancellor Philip Hammond has confirmed – leading Remainers to mock it is the only Canada Brexit deal the government is likely to land. The move means extending Carney’s term by seven months, having previously planned to step down in June 2019. […]

A website set up to show how EU money is spent in Britain is going viral, with more than 1,500 views a minute. In terms of internet content, myEU.uk does not immediately look like something primed to go viral. No-one is owning anybody else in the most awesome way. It will not tell you which […]

Leading City and political figures have rounded on the Conservatives over their “disastrous” handling of Brexit, warning that Britain risks ending up with the “worst of leave and the worst of remain”. With just 200 days remaining until Britain quits the EU, the prospect of a no-deal Brexit continues to spell acute economic uncertainty for […]

We cannot leave developing a future vision for Britain to the Brexiteers, writes LIBBY CHERRY Whether it’s Boris Johnson using casual racism for press attention or Trump’s antics, it is easy to view the last few years as a populist explosion that has usurped the rational rules-based systems of our liberal democracies. But this viewpoint […]

Theresa May’s Brexit strategy has put the UK constitution in a “suicide vest” and handed the detonator to Brussels’ chief negotiator Michel Barnier, Boris Johnson has claimed. The former foreign secretary’s extraordinary comments provoked an immediate backlash from Tory critics in the latest sign of the bitter Conservative divide over Brexit and the future leadership […]

Ireland’s EU commissioner has blasted Britain’s “absurdist politics” and told leading Hard Brexiteers Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg to “shut up and let Prime Minister May get on with her work”. Phil Hogan, the European commissioner for agriculture and rural development, said that Britain was ‘trapped in a recurring cycle of silly behaviour’ over Brexit […]

The Premier League is seeking to avoid strict post-Brexit regulations on signing European players which would have seen the likes of N’Golo Kanté barred from playing in England. England’s top flight has benefited hugely from buying players from within the EEA (European Economic Area), which has allowed clubs to sign them without a work permit […]

Women “have the most to lose” from Brexit, a Labour MP has warned. Rupa Huq argued that “there’ll be an even worse scenario in store for women” through the UK’s departure from the EU. The MP for Ealing Central and Acton said two years after the Brexit referendum, uncertainty remained over the final deal, with […]

One of the country’s biggest trade unions is calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal, saying promises made during the referendum are “not the reality we are facing”. The GMB said it had consulted thousands of its members across the country and there was widespread support for the public to have a […]

UKIP’s leader, Gerard Batten, has made an extraordinary call for people to boycott signing up for the Army until Brexit had been achieved. The litle-known leader, elected in February, claimed that British troops “are no longer fighting for Queen and country but under a foreign military command”. And he claimed prime minister Theresa May had […]

A poll of grassroots Conservative members published today has shown 69% do not support the government’s Brexit plan. The poll, carried out by the website ConservativeHome, showed that just 26% of members support the plan, showing the difficult Theresa May is likely to have in pushing it through. The site’s editor, Paul Goodman, said: “If […]

Insurance tycoon Arron Banks has bizarrely claimed that “Brexiteers are not welcome in the Tory party” after his latest bid to join the Conservatives failed. The former Ukip donor who bankrolled the unofficial leave campaign, along with his spin doctor Andy Wigmore, had sought to join the Tories in North West Leicestershire, the constituency of […]

Some 2.6m voters who backed Leave in 2016 have switched to Remain, new analysis shows. According to the analysis for the Best for Britain campaign group, another one million former Remain voters have moved in the opposite direction and now back Brexit. It means an overall shift of 1.6 million voters in favour of continued […]

A Brexit deal must be signed by “November at the latest”, the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier warned today. He told a press conference in Brussels there would be no agreement unless an operational “backstop” arrangement for the Irish border can be agreed. But he said was “determined” to reach an agreement ahead of the […]

Sinn Fein has called for the creation of a EU constituency for Northern Ireland post-Brexit. Sinn Fein MEP Martina Anderson said it was crucial that Northern Ireland citizens retained democratic representation in the European Union, especially as the majority of Northern Ireland voted to remain. Sinn Fein published its submission to the Constituency Convention dealing […]

The only Brexit options are Theresa May’s Chequers plan or no deal, de facto deputy prime minister David Lidington has told a French business conference. The comments are likely to embolden Brexit hardliners in the Tory parliamentary ranks who are implacably opposed to Chequers and would prefer to crash out and trade on WTO terms. […]

The health secretary’s plan to set aside six weeks’ worth of vital medicines to avoid supply disruptions in the event of a no-deal Brexit could cost up to £2bn, it was warned today. Anti-Brexit campaign group Best for Britain used figures collated by think-tank the King’s Fund earlier this year to suggest the cost of […]

Brexit ‘poses an existential threat to the UK’s anti-slavery efforts’, it was warned today as Theresa May arrived in Nigeria with people-trafficking on the agenda. The prime minister will hold talks with President Muhammadu Buhari in the capital, Abuja, with the threat of Boko Haram in west Africa expected to be discussed. She will then […]

A bad Brexit deal could “jeopardise patient care” in hospitals, nurses have warned. In a letter to party leaders, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) claimed Brexit poses an “immediate risk to the provision of safe and effective care”. The warning comes as the RCN calls on all political parties to back a referendum on […]

The international trade secretary has joined in rubbishing the chancellor’s no-deal Brexit economic forecast, calling it “hard to swallow”. Fox, who is in Singapore touting UK trade opportunities to Asian governments and businesses, said the chancellor’s warning, that GDP could fall and borrowing could be around £80bn a year higher by 2033/34 if Britain resorted […]

The trolling of Brexit Britain by countries remaining in the EU has begun with these posters referencing the classic WW2 slogan spotted at Copenhagen airport, writes STEVE ANGLESEY When/if we officially leave the EU, Britons will lose their automatic right to travel anywhere in the EU just by presenting a passport. Instead we will be […]

Anti-Brexit activists are to hand out 20,000 EU flags at this year’s Last Night of the Proms after sparking anger with a similar stunt last year. Remain campaigners claimed a publicity victory in 2017 when BBC TV pictures showed a sea of blue and gold stars at the traditionally patriotic event, with Nigel Farage accusing […]

Labour moderate Chuka Umunna has described claims that the campaign for a second Brexit referendum is cover for the creation of a new centrist political party as “utter bollocks”. Allegations that the People’s Vote group calling for another poll on Britain’s relationship with the EU was a smokescreen for disaffected MPs to breakaway under his […]

Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer today performed a massive u-turn on Labour’s policy on leaving the EU, saying a second referendum was still “on the table”. Two days after shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner said that holding another referendum could lead to “civil disobedience”, Sir Keir Starmer told the Today programme he had […]

In the March 15 edition of The New European, the Mandrake diary item written by Tim Walker and titled ‘Mum’s the word’ contained a number of inaccuracies. Firstly, the diary item said that the Legatum think tank was being wound up. In fact, the Legatum entity which was wound up in the Cayman Islands was […]