The British Establishment is doing its damnedest to torpedo Brexit. For an insight into the worldview that motivates this sclerotic, illiberal, self-serving, arrogant, anti-democratic elite, look no further than Twitter.
The “unelected” House of Lords is out to block “the democratic will of the people”, the International Trade Secretary has said, after Peers voted to give Parliament the power to stop the divorce.
LONDON (AP) – The British government faced pressure over Brexit at home and abroad Monday, including a defeat in Parliament over who gets the final say on an exit deal with the European Union. By 335 votes to 244, the
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has resigned from Government.
UKIP’s leader has said Islam is “inherently anti-Semitic” and the Labour party has a problem with anti-Jewish prejudice because they rely on Muslim voters “in my opinion.”
Theresa May has been warned she could be ousted as Prime Minister unless she reins in the unelected adviser pushing for Britain to remain tied to European Union’s Customs Union after Brexit.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has proposed negotiating away border controls during the Brexit talks, giving EU migrants access to Britain’s labour market, benefits system, and health service.
The European Commission’s hardline Brexit negotiator has reasserted that the UK cannot “have autonomy anymore” over its trade policy if it remains tied to the bloc’s Customs Union.
Theresa May faces a rebellion within her parliamentary party and a vote of no confidence if she abandons her promise of a clean Brexit, outside a customs union, Tory MPs have warned.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has backed Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg as the next Conservative Party leader and a possible Prime Minister to lead the UK out of the European Union (EU).
A petition calling for a referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords will be considered for a debate in Parliament after receiving more than 100,000 signatures.
Iceland’s independence is viewed as a “nuisance” by the European Union (EU) as it pushes to become an integrated superstate and pressures the Nordic nation to accept more and more of the bloc’s rules and regulations.
A new study has estimated that the impact of a vote to Leave the European Union predicted by George Osborne’s Treasury was out by around £100 billion.
The European Union has negotiated a major extension to its trade deal with Mexico — proving it is capable of agreeing liberal commercial arrangements with non-members.
The government has repeated its promise that the UK will leave the European Union’s (EU) Customs Union, after reports in the Sunday papers suggested the Prime Minister was prepared to abandoned a clean Brexit.
(TELEGRAPH) — Theresa May is backing a plan for Britain’s future relationship with the European Union that would tie up firms in regulation and make trade deals with other countries “impossible”, senior Brexiteers have warned.
Leading Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has said Peers working to frustrate Brexit in the House of Lords are “contemptuous of democracy” and “out of touch with the people,” calling them “cave dwellers.”
The National Audit Office (NAO) has warned that the so-called ‘divorce bill’ the government has promised to pay the EU could be billions of pounds higher than estimated.
Theresa May has said the continued influence of EU law and the EU court is a “hard fact” which voters must accept.
For maybe the first time in their deluded, cosseted, snowflake bubble lives, progressive music fans are finally getting a taste of something that conservative music fans have to put up with all the time: the misery of discovering that your pop icon hero just doesn’t share your politics.
Emboldened by a vote to block a clean Brexit in the Lords Wednesday night, anti-Brexit MPs, including leading Tories, have backed a bid to force a vote on keeping the UK to tied to the bloc’s Customs Union and its rules.
The British people say they will reject re-joining the European Union (EU), by a thumping 16-point margin, if there is another vote on the issue in 2020, a new poll has shown.
David Cameron has said he “doesn’t regret” calling the referendum on European Union (EU) membership, whilst admitting the bloc was assuming more power over the UK, which had a bad relationship with the bloc.
Unelected Peers have passed an amendment to the European Union (EU) withdrawal bill, which anti-Brexit politicians hope could keep the UK tied to the bloc’s Customs Union and failing trade policies.
The effects of Brexit are already being felt on public services and in the job market as more children get their first choice of primary school and salaries rise.
Former frontman of The Smiths, Morrissey, has blasted leading Labour Party figures such as Sadiq Khan and Diane Abbott, while calling halal slaughter “evil” and railing against the political left who label all right wingers as “racist”. Speaking to interviewer
North Korea and South Korea are on the verge of declaring peace. No one, I imagine, will be quite so disappointed by this dreadful news as the distinguished war historian Sir Max Hastings.
British businesses have rejected the prospect of a second Brexit referendum and are focusing instead on “building a global Britain”.
The European Commission has announced plans to make biometric ID cards compulsory across the bloc which will allow authorities to bar “terrorists and criminals” from accessing money and other services.
European nations are recruiting hundreds of customs officers to conduct border checks, as suspicions grow the UK could break free of the bloc, in less than a year, without a trade deal.
Cross-party Remainers have launched a campaign thinly disguised as a democratic movement which seeks a second referendum on the Brexit deal.
“Better off in.” This was the slogan of the Remain campaign during Britain’s EU referendum. It didn’t persuade the 17.4 million people who voted Brexit.
The European Union (EU) has rebuffed the UK’s Brexit secretary and insisted there will be no ambitious trade talks with the bloc before the Brexit date in less than a year.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein admitted — despite previously strong anti-Brexit remarks — that he’d been wrong about the impact of Brexit, and was surprised at how little economic impact the vote had caused so far.
The European Union (EU) will allow the UK to change its mind on a clean Brexit and stay inside the bloc’s Single Market, tied to many of its rules, for years after the Brexit date.
Keeping Scotland’s border open to an unlimited number of migrants after Brexit is a top priority for the nation, Brussels heard this week.
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.
Failed U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has again intervened in the Brexit process, praising the European Union (EU) and claiming the peace in Northern Ireland is jeopardized by the UK’s divorce from the bloc.
Academics and campaigners are working to establish a Museum of Sovereignty — or a Brexit Museum — to facilitate future understanding and academic research of why Britain decided to pursue her own destiny in 2016, and is seeking to collect items for an archive.
The Prime Minister has refused to clearly state that she supports Brexit when asked, simply saying the British people have made the decision to leave the European Union (EU).
