Brexit

Steve Anglesey picks out the worst Brexiteers of the week. 10. PAUL NUTTALL The only man to win the Grand National as jockey, trainer AND horse opened an article for the Daily Telegraph with the words, ‘It has been just over two months since I stood down as leader of UKIP after the general election. […]

This week’s podcast looks at what Labour’s Leavers really think of the party’s policy shift, the songs which sum up Brexit and a scary look at Britain’s foodie future once we’ve left the EU. A review of the week’s Brexit news with host Steve Anglesey and broadcaster Neil Perry. Plus the podcast contains all the […]

Japanese businesses expect ‘clarity’ over Brexit, a top diplomat said as Theresa May jetted off to the Far East. Minister for public diplomacy at the Japanese embassy Shinichi Iida said his government would prefer Britain to stay in the European Union and will be ‘paying close attention’ to negotiations. He added that Japan has a […]

En même temps… I am guessing many of you know, without resorting to Google Translate, that it means ‘at the same time’. In France, however, it has taken on a political as well as a literal significance, because of Emmanual Macron’s heavy use of the phrase during his audacious bid for the Elysée Palace. It […]

Labour’s new Brexit policy is a step in the right direction – but doesn’t go far enough, say the party’s MPs Heidi Alexander and Alison McGovern. Have you ever had that excited but exasperated feeling when your team’s so close to scoring yet can’t quite manage to get the ball in the back of the […]

Clacton is where baby boomers go to retire. Anthony Clavane went to meet them on the seafront to ask them why, in Vince Cable’s words, ‘they shafted the young’ by voting for Brexit. It is midday and, taking refuge from yet another shower on the Essex sunshine coast, hundreds of holidaymakers have poured on to […]

Labour cannot halt Brexit, says Abi Wilkinson, instead it is down to a grassroots movement to swing opinion and then the politicians will follow. Here are several things I believe are true. First of all, that Brexit is going to be an unmitigated disaster with few – if any – silver linings. Secondly, that the […]

The European Union’s starry logo glistens in the sun on a plaque by a roundabout just outside Longford, a market town about 80 miles from Dublin in the Irish Midlands. Before the part-EU-funded bypass, Longford was choked in traffic. Now signs warn visitors to drive on the left in four languages – English, Gaelic, German […]

London’s economy is ‘wobbling’ due to the aftershock of the Britain’s decision to back Brexit, according to a new report. Research by think tank the Centre for London concludes that the looming EU exit could be a factor in reducing numbers of Europeans coming to the capital to work, a slowdown in job creation, declining […]

Things are now so grim in Brexit Britain – there is no hero riding to the rescue – but it’s not too late to rethink I expected, by now, to be coming round to the idea of Brexit. A lot of my friends were Outers – clever folk with whom I agree on much else. […]

Chancellor Philip Hammond has launched a ferocious counter-attack on cabinet rivals who have been briefing against him claiming Brexiteers are behind the plots. He accused them of trying to undermine his attempts to secure a Brexit deal which protected jobs and the economy. Hammond has been hit by a series of press reports claiming the […]

It’s becoming clear what the British people want from Brexit. But they are not being given the option, says former PM Tony Blair This was on any basis an extraordinary election, unique in recent British political experience and with major political consequence. The country is deeply divided: between young and old; metropolitan and outside the […]

A new Big Lie is currently entering the Big Lie lexicon. It is that 51.9% having voted Leave last June 23 – National Self-Harm Day – the number has now risen to over 80%. When the Brexit pathology is studied, hopefully by historians examining how the UK found its reverse gear and pulled back from […]

Cock ups, chaos and calamity – Brexit is a shitstorm like no other. We pick over the carcass of another rotting week of Brexit madness 10) Theresa May ‘Only the Conservatives can deliver a successful Brexit’ – remember that? It seems Theresa May is flip flopping on yet another election promise. She has now made […]

The Government’s actions based on the 2016 referendum’s outcome were politically illegitimate It is plain to every impartial observer that Brexit is a disaster, and promises yet worse. The harm to the UK, already happening and already mounting in ever larger quantities, is as clear as day. In any rational order a stop would have […]

Where can I buy The New European? What stories are in the latest issue of The New European? https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/885430400377606144 The New European is a unique newspaper; launched in the heat of the Brexit vote – and designed to last only four weeks – we are still here, more than a year later, and thanks to […]

Where can I buy The New European? What stories are in the latest issue of The New European? https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/877894208572407808 It’s one whole year since the referendum vote and a year many may want to forget. But one thing we can all be cheerful about is the latest brilliant issue of The New European – which […]

Brexit talks kick off on Monday – but there won’t be any talk about trade. The Brussels talks will focus on the status of expats, the UK’s ‘divorce bill’ and the Northern Irish border, rather than on any future trade relations with the European Union. The European Commission said the one-day meeting between its chief […]

Tell this new voting tool your constituency and it recommends who to vote for to prevent Theresa May’s Hard Brexit PA Archive/PA Images – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images Tactical voting to oppose Brexit could still have a huge impact on the General Election. Labour’s muddled EU policy and a weakened Liberal Democrats mean there is […]

Get your weekly dose of politics as Matt Kelly, Steve Anglesey, Richard Porritt and Geri Scott dissect the Tory manifesto and crown Brexiteer of the week In episode two of The New European podcast, the team take a look back at a week in Brexit focusing on the Conservative Party’s manifesto, the state of the […]

Don’t turn your back on democracy on June 8, urged Miller Speaking at The Convention – a two-day public debate on the deep impacts of Brexit – Brexit campaigner Gina Miller urged voters to use their ‘enormous privilege’ by voting in ‘a smart, tactical way.’ ‘As for you, who maybe feel betrayed, or apathy or […]

Theresa May has resisted calls to lower the voting age to 16, insisting young people could get involved in politics without casting a ballot. If you are 16 or 17 you can get married, join the armed forces and if you are working you will have to pay tax. And yet you have no say […]

An exclusive poll conducted by The New European shows Lib Dems set to profit in the election of June 8 In the 2015 general election which party did you vote for?Create line charts Support for Labour among anti-Brexit Remain voters has swung dramatically to the Liberal Democrats, a survey of readers of The New European […]

‘We can’t just destroy a beautiful country’ says Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson Branson has said a hard Brexit would be a disaster for the UK and could warrant a second referendum. ‘The people voted for the Government to come out of Europe based on £350million more going into the NHS and a whole lot […]

A win for the Tories team could be bad news for foxes as the PM pledges a free vote to overturn hunting ban. Theresa May has outraged animal lovers with a pledge to hold a free vote on overturning the ban on fox hunting. The Prime Minister said she was in favour of the outlawed […]

Is May running a Trump-style campaign? Five things we learned yesterday 1. Theresa May has denied that she is running a presidential-style campaign amid claims she is ashamed of the ‘nasty’ party. The Conservative brand has played second fiddle to ‘Theresa May’s team’ at events so far. But the Prime Minister insisted: ‘If you look […]

Election news, reaction and analysis on May 10. .

The populist right has been dealt a heavy blow after Marine Le Pen was defeated in the French election. Emmanuel Macron looks set to become France’s next president after exit polls gave him a strong lead over Le Pen. Polling agencies project the 39-year-old political novice has won 65% of the vote, with Le Pen […]

Disagreements, defectors, election speak: Our (Brexiteer) diarist Iain Dale records a new election week I do wonder whether the right-wing polemicist Christopher Booker has undergone a brain transplant. For more years than I can remember he has written a column in the Sunday Telegraph pointing out the corruption and absurdities endemic in the Brussels beast. […]

The game is back on… and you have to ask why? Well I did NOT see that coming. Literally; as you may even remember, in an early column I dismissed the notion of Theresa May calling a snap election before 2020 as I could see no electoral advantage for her in doing so. What’s changed? […]

… they never do, says The New European’s election editor At least Theresa May deserves a round of applause for pulling off a real surprise. Even her cabinet did not know. Those of us who saw her as a risk-averse, Anglo-Catholic vicar’s daughter, raised in the gentler, Ovaltine conservatism of small town Oxfordshire, never spotted […]

We pick out the worst Leavers of a week in which people came together and united behind the opportunities which lie ahead. Probably. The UKIP Paw Patrol (NEW ENTRY) When a UKIP supporter shouts for his bulldog to come, it doesn’t necessarily mean he wants the hound to move closer. A YouGov poll has found […]