LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator says if Britain withdraws without a deal with the EU, he still wants to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
José Ángel Gurría Treviño, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has said the world’s advanced economies are “absolutely” ready for a No Deal Brexit, and that they would help the United Kingdom to make it happen in “the most seamless possible way”.
Officially we’re not supposed to speculate on the civil disorder which might ensue if parliament succeeds in its campaign to thwart Brexit…
(AFP) — The British government will face a multi-billion-euro divorce settlement with the European Union even if it leaves the bloc without a deal, Brussels negotiator Michel Barnier warned Wednesday.
Earnings are up and UK employment and job vacancies are as record highs at the UK experiences its lowest net EU migration since 2012.
LONDON (AP) – Prime Minister Theresa May is determined to get a tweaked version of her rejected European Union divorce deal through Parliament. British lawmakers have other ideas — lots of other ideas.
German Yellow Vest activists protested Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel signing a treaty which aims to bring together the economic and defence policies of France and Germany in a prototype “Sovereign Europe”.
Up to 40 Government ministers could resign if they are blocked from backing procedures that could postpone Brexit or stop a clean break from the EU.
Government sources have confirmed that the Queen may be advised to refuse to grant the Royal Assent to parliamentary legislation aimed at blocking Brexit.
President of the European Council Donald Tusk said that he warned former British Prime Minister David Cameron over his “stupid” EU referendum, calling it “dangerous.”
Separate polls have revealed that in the majority, Britons want a clean break from the EU and reject calls for a second referendum.
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled her Brexit Plan B on Monday — and it looks a lot like Plan A.
LONDON (AP) – Prime Minister Theresa May is set to unveil her new plan to break Britain’s Brexit deadlock – and it’s expected to look a lot like the old plan decisively rejected by Parliament last week.
Peter Lilley has hit back at Project Fear stories that Britain will be worse off if it leaves the EU without a deal, saying the country will spend less on EU tariffs and goods would not be held up at ports.
Boris Johnson has warned that, if successful, the current round of parliamentary plots to delay or outright derail Brexit will lead to “vicious and unparalleled contempt for the whole political class” among the voting public.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand has vowed her country will stand by Britain after Brexit, encouraging it to leave the EU on terms which will allow the Kiwis to deepen their commercial ties to the mother country.
A new bilateral Wine Agreement and Mutual Recognition Agreement was signed in London on Saturday designed to help ease the continued flow of post-Brexit trade between Australia and the UK.
Britain’s Secretary of State for International Trade has warned that if politicians refuse to respect the people’s vote to Leave the European Union it could unleash a “political tsunami” with “unknowable consequences” for the stability of the realm.
LONDON (AP) – Northern Ireland police and politicians have condemned a “reckless” car bombing outside a courthouse in the city of Londonderry.
George Orwell famously wrote in his essay The Lion and the Unicorn that there’s a certain type of Englishman who loathes and despises his own country.
Chairman of the European Research Group Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that attempts to extend the deadline for the UK’s exit from the EU are a Remainer plot to stop Brexit.
Anti-Brexit journalists and politicians have been criticised for appearing to cheer the death of older voters, hoping attrition of the largely Brexit-voting demographic will allow them to win a re-run of the 2016 referendum on Britain’s EU membership.
LONDON (AP) — Former British foreign secretary Boris Johnson has urged Prime Minister Theresa May to use her crushing parliamentary defeat as leverage to get a better Brexit deal from European Union leaders.
Leave campaigner Nigel Farage has warned that Brexit is “on the verge of being betrayed” and Leavers must be prepared to continue the fight either in the face of Article 50 being delayed or a possible second referendum.
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Brexit-supporting Tories have slammed Chancellor Philip “Remainer Phil” Hammond’s comments on MPs blocking a “No Deal” Brexit as “treacherous” and “totally incompetent”.
In a speech hitting out at direct democracy, Emmanuel Macron has claimed Britain was “manipulated” into voting for Brexit by “fake news” during the EU referendum.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip “Remainer Phil” Hammond told corporate bosses that senior MPs would stop a “No Deal” Brexit — where Britain makes a clean break from the EU — according to a leaked telephone call.
Prime Minister Theresa May has (narrowly) survived the vote of no confidence and delivered another of her bullish speeches about how the people voted for Brexit and how Brexit is what she plans to deliver.
Theresa May’s government has survived a vote of no confidence by 325 votes to 306.
Theresa May has claimed she will deliver Brexit in the House of Commons, as doing otherwise would result in the British people’s faith in the country’s institutions to fall to “an all-time low”.
Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts has urged the prime minister to call on the Queen to suspend the parliamentary session until Brexit takes effect of March 29th, to deny Remain plotters the opportunity to derail it.
Former junior Brexit minister Steve Baker MP has said that the Prime Minister’s cabal “abused” the British constitution to negotiate her failed “Brexit In Name Only” deal behind the Brexit Department’s back.
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier says the bloc is stepping up preparations for a chaotic no-deal departure of Britain from the bloc after the rejection of the draft withdrawal deal in London left the EU “fearing more than ever that there is a risk” of a cliff-edge departure.
Theresa May’s Brexit ‘deal’ has been rejected by Parliament. Everyone saw this coming, but few imagined she’d lose by quite such a large margin: 432 to 202. It’s the worst defeat ever suffered by a British government
The European Union has ruled out a special summit or reopening negotiations for the Withdrawal Agreement, according to the bloc’s sources, whilst Brexiteers have called Prime Minister Theresa May’s Commons defeat a “catastrophic failure of leadership.”
Members of Parliament are holding the “meaningful vote” on Theresa May’s contentious Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union.
Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has said that the political class ignoring the will of the people is a “complete betrayal of the greatest democratic exercise in the history of our nation.”
LONDON (AP) – The president of the eurozone finance ministers’ group has hinted at the possibility of changing the terms of the UK’s Brexit deal – despite the European Union’s insistence it can’t be renegotiated.
A number of pro-Brexit MPs have come out and said they will vote down Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU Withdrawal Agreement and dismantled ‘no deal’ scare mongering over a World Trade Organization exit.