Brexit

MICHAEL WHITE on another succession of crises as the UK slips yet further in the world power stakes Watching Gavin Williamson, untested in any ministerial office let alone a military one, taking over at the Ministry of Defence from Sir Michael Fallon reminded me of the spectacle a few weeks ago which saw Britain’s latest […]

RICHARD PORRITT rounds up the losers and losers (because there are no winners) of another crazy seven days on Planet Brexit 10 Peter Lundgren MEP Swedish right-winger Lundgren has claimed this week that warnings about Britain being isolated and poor after Brexit are ‘bulls**t’. Phew. This from a man who represents a party launched by […]

RICHARD PORRITT with the week’s big stories ‘Can she last until Christmas?’ That is the question we pose on the front page of this week’s paper… and it’s a question a Number 10 insider answered with a sigh moments after her doomed conference speech last month. ‘Well,’ he continued amid the shock of the worse […]

A new international study shows how narcissism and an unrealistic belief in national greatness led to the successes of Donald Trump and Brexit. SCOTT OLIVER reports Exactly a year before her cough-infested car crash address of the Tory party conference, our erstwhile Remainer Prime Minister Theresa May hopped aboard the populist bandwagon by announcing: ‘If […]

The government has announced there will be a delay of “no more than three weeks” in publishing its secret papers on the economic impact of Brexit. Brexit minister Steve Baker told the Commons today that the Government would need time to release the studies despite being ordered by Speaker John Bercow to publish them immediately. […]

Andy Wigmore’s attempt at ‘sarcasm’ on Vote Leave’s use of bots was a characteristic piece of mischief from this sharpshooting Brexiteer, say RACHEL DAVIS and RICHARD PORRITT Sharp-shooter, bad boy of Brexit and master of the dark arts of political communication – Andy Wigmore is either a ‘good laugh’ or a ‘dangerous individual’ depending who […]

The rush to Brexit could have been halted, argues AC GRAYLING. But instead of a sober, rational reaction to the Brexit vote politicians were caught in a flap In the early hours of June 24, 2016 the broadcaster David Dimbleby, watching the results coming in from the EU referendum, said when the percentages of votes […]

Our editor-at-large ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on trying not to get too shouty ‘Try not to get too shouty,’ advised Peter Mandelson when I mentioned I was doing a television debate with John Redwood. Peter knows me too well. Anyone who saw me up against the Vulcan, either on Good Morning Britain, or a few days later […]

Chris Heaton-Harris’ clumsy if sinister attempt to find out about the teaching of Brexit at universities was almost universally condemned. Almost. As LIZ GERARD reports, for some of Fleet Street it was a perfect opportunity to send a message – dissent will not be tolerated Business leaders, bank chiefs, lawyers, luvvies, the BBC, scientists, diplomats, […]

Steve Anglesey counts down the worst Brexiteers of the week 10 Arron Banks If his lucrative dog-whistle business should ever go wrong, Leave.EU backer Banks really should consider a career as a psychic. Just after 9am on October 30 he was crowing on Twitter that the ‘Russian stuff out of the US against Trump… is […]

MICHAEL WHITE on a Westminster consumed with scandal – and dodging the truth on Brexit A businessman just back from his first visit to Singapore in 10 years marvels at the pace of change and the optimism permeating much of South and East Asia. ‘Mind you, an average growth rate over 6% for the last […]

The Governor may not have wanted Brexit but it has dominated his years at the Bank of England, says ANGELA JAMESON. And a quick fix is beyond his powers March 2019 and the Brexit deadline looms ever nearer. In the City, another 2019 countdown is also underway. For June 2019 is when the current Bank […]

RICHARD PORRITT with this week’s big stories A Brexit stalemate, no money in the coffers and polls which have a hard leftie as favourite to win the next election – the news is not good for poor Theresa May. And now a raft of old fashioned sex scandals is set to rock her government as […]

The true impact of Brexit is starting to dawn on Britain. MARC BETTS reports on the latest survey that highlights the nation’s burgeoning panic Fears over the future of the NHS have spiked since the Brexit vote. Open Britain and the European Movement asked voters a series of questions about their thoughts on key issues […]

Labour is making a fresh attempt to force the Government to hand over to MPs its assessments of the likely impact of Brexit on key industrial sectors. Brexit secretary David Davis this week confirmed 58 studies have been carried out in sectors covering 88% of the UK economy, but has so far resisted intense pressure […]

Going trick-or-treating tonight? Download and print our Monsters of Brexit masks and dress as something truly terrifying If you’re out knocking doors for Halloween tonight, why not go as the ultimate trick – Brexit? The New European has created four masks you can download and print, each featuring a Brexit villain. Simply cut them out, […]

Few MPs have banged the drum against Brexit more consistently than David Lammy. He tells EMMA JONES why there is still so much to fight for When I meet David Lammy in his office in Westminster he has just delivered a letter to David Davis, signed by more than 120 politicians, demanding he publish his […]

Only the really unscrupulous or bankrupt shirk from their responsibilities over pensions, says former pensions minister ROS ALTMANN. Brexit should not excuse such bad behaviour Brexit negotiations are stuck over the issue of our so-called ‘divorce bill’. One of the sticking points relates to past pension promises. David Davis has suggested that demands for paying […]

The ‘morality police’ of Brexit are closing down debate, says YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN. We must not let them What? We can’t object to Brexit? Can’t even scream as the nation is propelled headlong into a lightless chasm? The rules have apparently changed. All Brits are expected to fall in line, to commit absolutely to the referendum […]

The playwright, author and critic on Brexit’s false sense of English patriotism There is still a Leave demographic, slowly shrinking, but still resilient. Many ask why this is, even in the face of another possibly fatal intrusion of reality threatening that coup d’état against reason known as Brexit. As anyone really paying attention knows, the […]

MICHAEL WHITE on a pitied prime minister whose weakness may turn into a negotiating strength Jeremy Corbyn has come a long way at the Commons dispatch box since his first fumbling sessions of Prime Minister’s question time. And when he quoted Liam Fox back at Theresa May after her latest statement on the Brexit negotiations […]

A Brexit minister today quit citing health reasons, two years after suffering an injury leaping out of a helicopter. Baroness Anelay, who was only appointed minister of state at the Brexit Department in June, said she was “calling time” on her career. The 70-year-old injured her ankle in an accident getting out of a Black […]

Steve Anglesey, Matt Withers and Geri Scott discuss the week in Brexit, including David Davis’ dismal week and Chris Heaton Harris and Paul Dacre’s joint assault on universities In addition, the team talk the worst Brexiteers of the week, the sad death of a TNE institution, Jared O’Mara, what Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May smell […]

STEVE ANGLESEY picks out the worst Brexiteers of the week 10 Henry Bolton Fresh from declaring that he could strange a badger with his bare hands, UKIP’s new leader has admitted that since the party is skint and his position is unpaid, he’ll probably have to sell his home to get by. No worries, Henry […]

Our editor-at-large writes the speech he fantasizes Jeremy Corbyn delivering to a rally of his faithful Momentum followers Last week I wrote a speech for Theresa May, which concluded with an announcement that she had decided Brexit was impossible to deliver. Sadly, she didn’t listen, and so onwards she leads us towards the cliff-edge. This […]

RICHARD PORRITT with the week’s big stories Thanks to concerned readers in academia, The New European was among several media outlets to receive a copy of Chris Heaton-Harris’ sinister letter to universities this week. Did this dunderhead Tory really think he could fire off veiled threats to vice-chancellors up and down the country in an […]

The department for exiting the EU has executed a screeching u-turn on whether MPs will get a vote on a final deal before the UK departs the union. Just hours after Brexit secretary David Davis MPs told MPs they may not get to vote on the terms of departure until the UK has already left, […]

MPs may not get to vote on the terms of the UK’s departure from the EU until it has already left, Brexit secretary David Davis warned today. He told the House of Commons’ Brexit Select Committee that the negotiations could drag on to the “59th minute of the 11th hour” and would be “very exciting […]

The Conservative MP who wrote to universities asking for the names of lecturers teaching courses on Brexit and the content of their lessons was doing research for a book, a minister has claimed. Chris Heaton-Harris, a government whip and member of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Conservative MPs, wrote to vice-chancellors earlier this month […]

An influential committee of MPs has written to Facebook asking for any evidence it had of Russia using it to meddle in the Brexit referendum. Members of the House of Commons’ Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee have called on the social media giant to hand over evidence of paid-for activity by accounts linked to […]

A Conservative MP and leading Brexiteer has written to universities across the UK asking for the names of lecturers teaching courses on Brexit and the content of their lessons. Chris Heaton-Harris, a government whip and member of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Conservative MPs, wrote to vice-chancellors earlier this month asking for the names […]

The outcome of the Brexit negotiations are “up to the UK”, European Council president Donald Tusk said today. In an update to the European Parliament following last week’s EU summit he said the UK would be responsible for whether there would be a “good deal, no deal or no Brexit”. The former Polish prime minister […]