Brexit

The North East of England, which voted overwhelmingly for Brexit in 2016, is now an exact 50/50 even split about whether to leave or stay, according to a new YouGov poll. It comes as the People’s Vote campaign, which is calling for a referendum on any final deal, publishes a detailed impact study on how […]

Business leaders have warned that papers outlining government planning for a no-deal Brexit must provide “clarity” so they can continue to trade freely if Britain crashes out of the EU. Tomorrow will see the publication of the first in a series of “technical notices” setting out what businesses and citizens need to do in the […]

Conservative HQ has barred the Best for Britain campaign from publishing an entry in the official party programme for its conference in Birmingham. Eloise Todd, CEO of the anti-Brexit campaign group, branded the decision to ban the notice for ‘Do we need a people’s vote? The Conservative case for a final say on the Brexit […]

Campaigning GP Dr Phil Hammond has been sacked as a BBC presenter after revealing he is planning to run against Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg at the next election. Dr Hammond, who presented Saturday Surgery on BBC Radio Bristol, was fired hours after announcing he plans to stand against Rees-Mogg in his North East Somerset constituency. […]

International trade secretary Liam Fox has complained about the focus on Britain’s departure from the EU, saying people are talking about “Brexit and Brexit and Brexit”. The disgraced former defence secretary said the country needed to have a less “narrow bandwidth” and look at the wider global picture to boost international trade. Fox said Britain’s […]

More people in Wales favour staying in the EU than crashing out of the bloc in the event of no deal, a new poll has shown. The poll, by YouGov on behalf of Plaid Cymru, shows a clear lead for those who wish to remain in the EU (48%), compared to those who believe we […]

MPs are calling for a rise in their allowances, claiming their workload has risen due to Brexit. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), the expenses watchdog, disclosed that it had received representations from MPs to raise their staffing budget. Under current rules, MPs can claim £150,900 a year for staffing costs, rising to £161,550 in […]

How Britain’s best-selling newspaper covered up its own huge finding. By STEVE ANGLESEY If a major opinion poll commissioned by Britain’s best-selling newspaper revealed huge support for the statement ‘Brexit is an historic mistake and only now are people realising it’, you’d imagine it would be pretty big news, right? Well, the first bit happened. […]

London mayor Sadiq Khan is set to instruct crisis planners to prepare for Britain crashing out of the EU without a deal. He said he had been left with “no choice” but to instruct the London resilience forum, which usually works on contingency plans for terrorism attacks and disasters such as the Grenfell Tower fire, […]

Jeremy Hunt has been mocked after insisting that Britain would “survive and prosper” after a no-deal Brexit, the day after describing it as a “mistake we would regret for generations”. Mr Hunt had been criticised by Hard Brexiteer MPs after an interview with ITV News yesterday in which he appeared to play up the risks […]

Accountancy giant Deloitte has been handed £2.6m to give Liam Fox’s officials a crash course in how to handle trade disputes. The Department for International Trade is set to pay the external consultants roughly £325,000 a month to prepare officials working at the country’s trade authority. The contract, unearthed by news website Politico, commenced in […]

Brexit could be “hugely damaging” to English football, according to the chairmen of Burnley and Stoke City. Burnley chairman Mike Garlick said uncertainty over a deal with the EU was already making it harder for clubs to sign players. And Stoke chairman Peter Coates said that the Premier League could be hit by freedom-of-movement restrictions. […]

The first signs of Labour’s erosion under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership might just be appearing, says JAMES BALL The country, the polls suggest, may finally be starting to seriously change its mind on Brexit. For the first months – and then the first year – after the UK voted to leave, polls stubbornly bounced around within […]

TIM WALKER talks to actor and campaigner Sir Patrick Stewart about politics, Star Trek and a very spiky encounter with the Labour leader Ever since he first stood with a placard bearing the name of his local Labour candidate in Mirfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the 1945 general election – at the […]

Just under half of people in Scotland want a referendum on the Brexit deal, according to a new poll. The YouGov poll, commissioned by the People’s Vote campaign calling for a public vote on Brexit negotiations outcome, found 48% of respondents were in favour, with 31% opposed. This is greater than the UK wide-response of […]

The chance of a chaotic no-deal Brexit is now “50-50”, Latvia’s foreign minister said today in a stark warning to Theresa May. Edgars Rink?vi?s said there was a “very considerable risk” of a no-deal scenario but insisted he remained optimistic an agreement with Britain on its withdrawal from the EU could be reached. He said […]

The amount of European funding allocated to British universities has fallen as Brexit approaches. Figures from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy analysing support from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research programme show that the proportion of funds allocated to British universities had dropped to 24.22% by the end of May – down from […]

Jacob Rees-Mogg and his European Research Group are to directly challenge Theresa May with their own blueprint setting out plans for a Hard Brexit. The Times reports today that the group of around 60 to 80 Hard Brexit-supporting Tory MPs have begun work on what is effectively a riposte to the prime minister’s Chequers plan, […]

Fancy an award-winning Belgian White or a German Weisse? Tough – Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin has announced he is looking at getting rid of all EU products The Brexiteer has said his firm was reviewing its “whole range” of products from the EU to see if they could be replaced by alternatives from Britain or […]

Some of the country’s leading disability activists, including Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson, have published an open letter calling for the public to have the final say on Brexit. The campaigners say they are convinced that the ‘chaotic, uncertain, and discordant’ Brexit process is going to lead to a ‘reduced quality of life’ for disabled people in […]

An MP has warned we are putting England’s football clubs at a disadvantage after Tottenham Hotspur’s manager blamed their failure to make a summer signing on the pound’s Brexit-driven slump. Mauricio Pochettino said that Brexit, along with the cost of Tottenham’s new stadium, were central to the club failing to sign any new players in […]

Voters would back remaining in the EU by 53% to 47% if a referendum was held now, according to a major poll. Some 45% want a say on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations with 34% opposed, the survey for the People’s Vote campaign found. If talks break down, half of voters said the final […]

Boris Johnson broke ministerial rules when he took on his Daily Telegraph column after quitting as foreign secretary, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments has said. The committee, known as Acoba, said it was “unacceptable” that he signed a contract with the Telegraph on July 12 – three days after quitting as foreign secretary – […]

With food shortages just one likely outcome of a no-deal Brexit, download and display our poster and Make Britain Rake Again A no-deal Brexit would likely be the most serious economic shock since the Second World War – with even pro-Brexit ministers like Dominic Raab, and even Theresa May herself, admitting that industry should supply […]

Ruth Davidson has backed calls for Boris Johnson to apologise over his “gratuitously offensive” comments on the burka. The Scottish Conservative leader said she believed the former foreign secretary should say sorry for comparing women wearing face-covering veils to bank robbers and letter boxes. Ms Davidson is the latest senior Tory to condemn Mr Johnson […]

Border Force staff could face having time off blocked if Britain leaves the EU without a deal. Proposals were reportedly sent to home secretary Sajid Javid as the government explores emergency arrangements for a no-deal scenario. Under one option, time off would be blocked for officers in the four weeks from March 24 – five […]

Consultant Andy Pardy packed in his job, bought a van and embarked on a very unusual anti-Brexit mission As a passionate pro-European mourning the potential of Britain’s last summer in the EU, Andy Pardy was looking for some kind of project to vent his frustration at Brexit. The epiphany came as he was running, and […]

Labour has warned of a rise in far-right politics after Boris Johnson made inflammatory comments about Muslim women who wear face veils. Lumping the former foreign secretary in with ex-English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson and a group described as fascists who stormed a left-wing bookshop, John McDonnell called for a campaign of resistance. […]

STEVE ANGLESEY introduces the drink Leavers will cheer… until they read the bottle Not to everyone’s taste, but intoxicating to some and the cause of many headaches and much regret later on. It seems like whiskey and Brexit were made for each other. So thirsty Leavers will no doubt be cheering the arrival of Brexit […]

There would be a risk to the public from a Hard Brexit, police chiefs have warned. Police and crime commissioners have written to the home secretary to express concern over what withdrawing from the EU will mean for security measures. They have asked Sajid Javid to confirm the Home Office has developed a contingency plan […]

Farmers have called on the government to make food security a top priority on the day the country’s cupboards would run bare if households relied only on British produce. A long-term decline in self-sufficiency that has stagnated at around 60% in recent years means around three quarters of the shortfall is imported from the rest […]

Ministers in Liam Fox’s trade department still haven’t visited a number of countries they want to strike post-Brexit deals with, it has emerged. Despite having identified them as targets for trade deals once Britain leaves the EU, no minister from the Department for International Trade has visited countries including Ukraine, Algeria, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic […]