Brexit 'Transition Period'

Leaders of the British universal healthcare provider the National Health Service have told Prime Minister Boris Johnson to extend the transition period — delaying the UK’s exit from EU institutions — because leaving in the New Year would push the allegedly coronavirus-hit NHS “over the edge”.

The House of Lords overwhelmingly voted to remove key provisions in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill to amend the Withdrawal Agreement from the European Union. On Monday night, peers voted by a margin of 433 to 165 to strip

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will have his Brexit resolve tested this week, with his October 15th crunch deadline set to result in either a deal, no deal, or another soft deadline extension.

Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has called on the British government to scrap the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement after it was revealed that the United Kingdom could be on the hook for billions in European Union loan payments.

Former Brexit secretary David Davis said that the European Union is trying to push for an extension to the transition period in an attempt to siphon off more British money during the impending economic collapse the bloc is facing as a result of the Chinese coronavirus.

Sadiq Khan has written a letter to the government in which he called for an extension to the Brexit transition period to avoid “needless and hazardous” impacts during the economic crisis spurred on by the Chinese coronavirus.

Tonight at 11 pm, the UK officially leaves the European Union. Officially, as the UK is still wedded to many of the EU’s institutions during the transition period until December 31st, 2020.

Theresa May is potentially facing a fresh Tory cabinet rebellion as concern grows that she is planning to lock the UK in a customs union with the European Union (EU) for an unlimited period.

The European Union (EU) will be hit harder than Britain in the immediate aftermath of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, Brussels officials have conceded, as the bloc comes under pressure to soften its negotiating stance.

Britain could be trapped in the European Union (EU) for even longer than the four years and nine months since the vote to leave that has already been agreed, it has emerged Wednesday.

Norway’s government has signalled its support for the UK being handed access to European Union markets after Brexit, which it is likely to agree to.

Brussels is set to back down and allow the UK to sign trade deals whilst still inside the bloc’s Single Market and Customs Union, during the agreed so-called Brexit ‘transition period’.

Leading Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has said an indefinite Brexit ‘transition’ period would be a “perversion of democracy”, slamming a leaked government proposal containing no provision for immigration controls.

More than 60 backbench Tory MPs have sent the Prime Minister a list of demands that will guarantee a clean break from the European Union with “full regulatory autonomy” outside the bloc.

The European Union (EU) should not push to “humiliate” or “punish” the UK in Brexit talks, as it could backfire and harm the bloc, a spokesman for French President Emmanuel Macron has said.

The so-called Brexit ‘transition’ period is “not a given” and could fail to materialise, European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier has insisted.

The UK must remain tied to the European Union’s (EU) Customs Union and many rules of the bloc or be hit with “unavoidable barriers to trade”, Brussels’ chief Brexit negotiator has told Theresa May.

A million more European Union (EU) migrants could come to the UK and settle permanently if free movement is extended into the so-called Brexit ‘transition period’, a report has claimed.

The so-called Brexit “transition period” has not yet been fully agreed and might not happen depending on the outcome of up-and-coming trade talks, a senior adviser to Michel Barnier, the European Union’s (EU) chief Brexit negotiator, has said.

The Brexit Minister has said the UK will accept the jurisdiction of European courts during a Brexit transition period “certainly initially” and confirmed MPs will be allowed to vote on a final Brexit deal.

Labour Party MPs will collude with Tory rebels to force the prime minister into giving Parliament a binding vote on whether or not to reject the final European Union deal (EU) and potentially block Brexit.

If Labour were in power they would want the UK to continue paying into the Brussels budget to keep the UK locked inside the European Union (EU) Single Market, a shadow Brexit minister has said.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has demanded a short ‘transition period’ after the UK leaves the European Union (EU) in 2019, setting himself against the prime minister who wants to keep Britain tied to the bloc for years.