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Brussels sources have signalled that the European Union may be planning to back down on their fishing demands following the chief British negotiator saying the UK would not accept the bloc’s “low-quality” trade deal offer.

Hungarian-American plutocrat George Soros attacked populist Italian senator Matteo Salvini, claiming the League (Lega) leader wants to get Italy out of the European Union and the euro currency.

What use is sovereign power over immigration when ministers seem intent on keeping immigration high — or making it even higher? 

The EU’s chief trade negotiator Michel Barnier has said that he did not like David Frost’s “tone” when the British negotiator called for Brussels to ditch its “low-quality” deal offer.

The sale of menthol flavoured cigarettes, menthol rolling tobacco and capsule cigarettes have been banned in the UK under an EU directive.

The government has announced the UK Global Tariff structures which will replace the EU-enforced Common External Tariff once the country leaves Brussels’ institutions at the end of this year, meaning that items like dishwashers will be cheaper but British industries like car manufacturing and farming will be protected.

In the three months leading up to the financial crisis caused by the Chinese coronavirus, the number of foreign-born workers in the United Kingdom reached a record high.

The first round of trade talks between the UK and the U.S. have concluded with advanced negotiations set for June, according to the government, days after discussions with the EU hit a deadlock.  

The European Union’s post-Brexit trade negotiators are reportedly planning to back down on its demands for continued access to Britain’s fishing waters. Meanwhile, the British government has returned civil servants to the front line of planning for a ‘no deal’.

In the latest instance of left-wing cancel culture, a virtual LGBT pride parade in the UK has been shut down after activists discovered that the organiser was a supporter of Brexit and had liked tweets from Nigel Farage and free speech campaigner Toby Young.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Talks between the European Union and the United Kingdom on their post-Brexit relationship ground to a near-standstill Friday, with each side accusing the other of blocking progress on a trade deal just weeks before a crucial summit.

The European Union is threatening legal action against the United Kingdom for alleged failings in its obedience to Free Movement migration rules, despite the country’s supposed break with the EU in January. 

London’s Metropolitan Police have finally dropped their investigations into working-class Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes and Vote Leave’s Alan Halsall, in another defeat for the supposedly neutral Electoral Commission.

After Theresa May’s Brexit delays and the coronavirus lockdown, the long-awaited UK-U.S. trade talks begin on Tuesday.

Nigel Farage has warned that the European Union will attempt to use the Chinese coronavirus crisis to “trap” the United Kingdom into an extended Brexit transition period.

Negotiating sources on both sides of the English Channel have admitted that UK-EU trade talks could collapse in June over fishing and regulations.

The settlement concerned allegations from Remainers that Banks had channelled Russian dark money into the Brexit campaign.

First Secretary of State Dominic Raab has said that the UK must “double down” on agreeing to a deal with the EU by the end of this year.

On this day ten years ago a hot-mic moment changed the course of UK history when a voter was called ‘bigoted’ by a left-wing Prime Minister.

Senior minister Michael Gove revealed that the government has no ‘no-deal’ preparations, compromising the UK’s negotiating position that it is serious about leaving the EU’s institutions with or without a deal.

A member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has said that the United Kingdom must extend the Brexit transition period because of coronavirus.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to take charge of UK-EU trade negotiations personally and will tell Brussels that its demands on fishing rights and regulatory alignment are unrealistic.

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator says the British government “cannot” refuse to extend the Brexit-in-name-only “transition” period if it will not submit to the bloc’s demands in the current negotiations.

Theresa May-era civil servants are said to be frustrated that the Conservative government’s EU trade deal negotiating team will not consider an extension of the transition period. 

David Lidington, the former de-facto deputy prime minister to Theresa May, claimed that an extension to the Brexit transition period was “inevitable” because of coronavirus.

The United Kingdom would be on the hook for millions of pounds in order to subsidise the European Union’s coronavirus crisis spending, should the government agree to another extension to the Brexit transition period.

The number of EU migrants who arrived in Britain under the Free Movement migration regime may have been undercounted by as much as 55 per cent.

Boris Johnson would say “no” to an extension to the transition period if the European Union asks for one, the prime minister’s spokesman said after the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called for a delay.

British and EU negotiators have agreed to continue Brexit trade talks via videoconferencing due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

It would be too easy for police forces to make the argument to keep the emergency coronavirus powers indefinitely, Nigel Farage has warned.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has confirmed that Boris Johnson’s government is “committed” to the EU negotiations timeline, adding the reminder that “we’ve left the European Union”.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told Britons that they must not accept that leaving the European Union’s institutions at the end of 2020 should be delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. 

French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi is the latest financial expert to sound the alarm that a lack of solidarity in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic could spell the end of the European Union (EU).

Negotiations for a free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a British government source speaking to The Telegraph.

A European Union ventilator procurement programme the British government did not join — prompting much criticism from anti-Brexiteers — is now reported to have delivered no ventilators as of yet, and fact-checkers have confirmed that claims Britain turned down 50,000 of the machines from the EU are “false”.

(AFP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour party on Saturday announced that Keir Starmer had been elected as its new leader, replacing Jeremy Corbyn who resigned after its crushing December election defeat.