Europe’s most senior bureaucrat, who is a well-known opponent of Brexit and allegedly wishes the process to go as badly as possible to act as a deterrent to others leaving the bloc is ready to allow the United Kingdom to delay the official departure day by 12 months or more.
Tommy Robinson has announced that he wants to stand for parliament — either in Brussels, as an MEP, if Brexit fails, or in Westminster.
Theresa May has secured some last-minute concessions on her proposed deal with the European Union ahead of Parliament’s second vote on it.
European Parliament president Antonio Tajani has said that the experiences of Britain attempting to leave the EU will serve as a “deterrent” to other nations considering leaving the bloc.
There is lots of competition for the title Most Godawful Prime Minister in British History. Theresa May is currently keeping it in a locked safe, above the drawer where she keeps her leather trousers. But Blair is and long has been one of the strongest contenders for the crown.
Britain’s Parliament will almost certainly vote to delay Brexit this week, but the European Union — which must give their assent to this course of action — is expected to extract a heavy price in return.
Brexiteer and former foreign secretary Boris Johnson has called on the government to whip Tory MPs into keeping open the option of a clean Brexit and to reject a delay to Brexit in House of Commons votes this week.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been secretly briefing against his own country to the leaders of foreign powers in an attempt to frustrate Brexit, according to claims made in a British newspaper.
The Democratic Unionist Party has slammed the EU’s “degrading proposal” to allow Britain to leave the “backstop” envisioned in Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal without their permission — as long as Northern Ireland is left behind.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has branded British politicians “cowards” for failing to push their voters into a re-run of the 2016 referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union.
Prime Minister Theresa May is warning lawmakers that if they reject her Brexit divorce deal next week, Britain may never leave the European Union.
The United Kingdom has failed to succeed in its Brexit negotiations with the European Union because it has played according to the same rules the bloc uses in all its internal business, which are designed specifically to always give the right outcome to Euro-federalists, Brexit rebel former minister George Eustice has claimed.
Theresa May is set to urge the EU to drop its intransigence over changes to the proposed Withdrawal Agreement with the EU — as Chancellor Philip “Remainer Phil” Hammond warns Leave supporters that rejecting the deal may lead to an even weaker form of Brexit.
Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a delay to the UK leaving the EU of one year for another “public consultation” on Brexit, after the country had already voted to leave in 2016 and voted in the vast majority for parties in 2017’s general election that promised to deliver Brexit.
Top economists at Germany’s Ifo Institute have admitted that a “No Deal” Brexit — “Hard Brexit”, according to detractors, or “Clean Brexit”, according to proponents — would not leave the United Kingdom any worse off than the European Union, unless it was executed extremely poorly.
Government sources believe that Prime Minister Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement could lose by 100 votes, whilst the unelected peers in the House of Lords have voted in favour off Brexit Britain staying in a customs union with the EU.
Mark Carney has revised predictions on the economic ‘disruption’ of a no-deal Brexit by a half, after the Bank of England governor had been criticised for his “misleading” November predictions.
This year’s EU election will be the “last chance” to kill populism, Guy Verhofstadt has warned, calling for sovereignty-destroying “reform” which would transfer national powers to Brussels. In an interview with five influential establishment newspapers from across the continent on
Theresa May has no intention of delivering meaningful Brexit; her Withdrawal Agreement was drafted secretly in collusion with German Chancellor Angela Merkel; May’s and Merkel’s ultimate game plan is for Britain to re-join the EU in full sometime after the next general election… huge if true.
The UK Government’s top lawyer told a television news crew as he returned to London from Brussels by train Wednesday morning that Brexit talks the night before had been “robust” — British English for an extremely heated shouting match.
U.S. Ambassador Woody Johnson has said scare stories alleging a bilateral trade deal would endanger Britain’s food standards were likely “designed” by the EU to “reduce trade” post-Brexit.
The CEO of Aston Martin has affirmed that the British luxury car company’s future is to be firmly maintained in the UK.
The excellent Dominic Frisby has written a Brexit song which I think you all might enjoy. It has a particularly fine chorus, sung to the tune of the old Devon folk song Widdecombe Fair which brilliantly mocks Project Fear and all its myriad dodgy Establishment promulgators…
Globalist French President Emmanuel Macron has made a direct address to the over 500 million people who live in the European Union, calling on them to support his vision of a more centralised and powerful “project” European Union which, he believes, could even entice the United Kingdom into cancelling Brexit.
Prime Minister Theresa May has been urged to whip her MPs into stopping Parliament taking a no-deal Brexit on the table.
European investment in the United Kingdom has more than doubled since 2016, signalling EU investors see a positive outlook in the long-term post-Brexit.
Iraq war architect and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has egged on supporters of a second referendum, including rebels that have walked away from his own party in protest against Jeremy Corbyn’s lukewarm approach to Brexit.
Attorney-General Geoffrey Cox has reportedly abandoned efforts to win serious concessions from the European Union on the unpopular “Soft Brexit” deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May.
Britain’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called for Tommy Robinson to be banned not only from social media, but from “public spaces” as well.
Cabinet ministers Andrea Leadsom and Jeremy Hunt — the former a Leave-supporting former leadership contender, the latter an ex-Remainer and leadership hopeful — have penned a joint article extolling the supposed merits of Theresa May’s deal with the European Union and denouncing efforts to delay Brexit as “a betrayal of the referendum result”.
To save Brexit, Theresa May must resign as Prime Minister.
EU loyalists predicting disaster for Britain in general and British carmakers in particular have been left with egg on their faces as new figures show the country growing faster than major EU economies and Jaguar Land Rover announces huge investments in British manufacturing.
(AFP) — Britain’s Brexit champion Boris Johnson on Saturday hit out at mounting calls for a second referendum on European Union membership predicting it would arouse widespread “anger”.
Calling for “fair, balanced, and reciprocal trade with the UK” and “state of the art rules” to achieve it, the U.S. Trade Representative has published an 18-page document of negotiating objectives for the forthcoming UK-U.S. trade deal both nations hope to strike for when Britain finally leaves the European Union.
The European Union has rejected British overtures to adopt the portion of the struggling Brexit deal securing the rights of EU migrants in Britain and British expatriates in the European Union, in order to provide assurance to their respective citizens.
Dominic Raab has warned that any suggestion of delaying Brexit “weakens” London’s negotiating powers in Brussels, but that to accept Prime Minister Theresa May’s soft-Brexit withdrawal agreement would risk a “democratic cliff edge” in the UK.
Brexit is inevitable not because people like me – and you, dear reader – wish it to be so. It’s inevitable because as even the most cursory glance at global geopolitical currents will tell you, populism is on the march.
While anti-Brexiteers have been at pains to emphasise the potential risks of a No Deal exit from the European Union and draw tenuous links between the global downturn in diesel car sales and Britain’s pending departure from the bloc in recent weeks, British industry has been enjoyed a series of important but little-reported success stories.
The UK farming minister quit the government over Theresa May’s Brexit Thursday, citing the forthcoming postponement of Britain’s departure from the European Union allowing Britain to be ‘dictated’ to by Brussels in the future.
The Government’s long-standing pledge to cut immigration “from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands” looks more meaningless than ever as the inflow from outside the European Union — which it is almost totally in their power to control — hit a 15-year high in the latest immigration figures.
