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Boris Johnson is being urged to back former Brexit secretary David Davis as an “interim” prime minister in a Tory plot that could oust Theresa May as early as October.

EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier badly damaged Theresa May’s credibility on Friday, confirming that her concession-laden Chequers plan for Brexit continues the supremacy of the EU court. 

Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has made his highly-anticipated personal statement to the House of Commons, criticising the Prime Minister’s vision for Brexit, calling it a “Brexit in name only”.

Theresa May’s top adviser Olly Robbins, accused of pushing for a “soft Brexit”, has purged the Brexit department of 50 of its best negotiating staff following the departure of the pro-Brexit minister David Davis.

Steve Baker MP, who resigned from the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) after Secretary of State David Davis over Theresa May’s ultra-soft Brexit plan, has revealed that the whole department is a sham, and claimed the “establishment elite” are working to overturn the EU referendum.

Steve Baker, who resigned from the Department for Exiting the European Union shortly after Secretary of State David Davis, has slammed Theresa May’s ultra-soft Brexit plan and the Remainer establishment.

UKIP leader Gerard Batten has called on Theresa May to stand down as Prime Minister after she unveiled her proposed plan for a soft Brexit and following the resignation of her Brexit secretary David Davis.

Leading Brexiteer and chair of a Eurosceptic group of MPs Jacob Rees-Mogg will, if it continues as stated, vote against the Prime Minister’s Brexit plan, in a revelation of growing back-bench discontent that came as Brexit Secretary David Davis was handing his resignation to Theresa May. 

Brexit is dead –  strangled at the weekend by Prime Minister Theresa May and her cabal of Remainer cronies.

Commons Committee on Exiting the European Union member and housing minister Dominic Raab has been chosen as the replacement for David Davis, the senior Brexiteer who stood down from his position as Brexit Secretary in Theresa May’s cabinet Sunday evening.

Brexit Secretary David Davis resigned from Theresa May’s government late on Sunday night, followed swiftly by junior ministers Steve Baker and Suella Braverman.

The Prime Minister is suspected of moving to sideline or even abolish the Brexit department, because it is too openly pro-Brexit, as the Brexit secretary warns her against abandoning a clean exit from the bloc and pushing to stay tied to its rules.

The Prime Minister has said she cannot “guarantee” there will be a firm limit to the UK staying tied to the EU’s customs rules, the day after reassuring Brexiteers on the topic to avert a cabinet rebellion.

Theresa May’s government “expects” there to be a time limit to the Customs Union “backstop”, averting a rumoured backlash from Tory Brexiteers and even the resignation of the Brexit Secretary.

Brexit secretary David Davis has thrown the Prime Minister’s favoured ‘customs partnership’ into doubt, claiming it could, in fact, be illegal according to international law, as he backs a clean Brexit instead.

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.

A new poll has found that more than half of voters think Labour has an anti-Semitism problem and over a third think Jeremy Corbyn is himself anti-Semitic.

The Tory government’s apparent betrayal of the fishing industry with the announcement that their share of Britain’s fish will not change during the so-called ‘transition’ period after Brexit could undo its negotiations entirely.

The United Kingdom will agree to follow all European Union rules after Brexit and keep the nation’s borders open for the duration of the transition period to 2022, with further bad news for fisheries and communities in Northern Ireland as a new agreement was reached in Brussels Monday.

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’.

The UK will refuse to pay the agreed so-called Brexit ‘divorce bill’ unless the European Union (EU) backs down on its attempt to force Northern Ireland to stay inside the bloc’s Customs Union.

The UK will not take advantage of Brexit to cut back environmental and workplace red tape, ministers claim in an effort to reassure those arguing Brexit is harmful.

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.

Member of Parliament for North Somerset Jacob Rees-Mogg has lectured the British government’s Brexit minister David Davis MP, reminding him that Britain is not continuing its membership of the European Union and therefore does not need to behave as a

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has hit back at British Prime Minister Theresa May’s handling of Brexit negotiations — in which she has made every concession possible to European Union negotiators while failing to deliver Brexit progress — by calling her “Theresa the Appeaser” and stating she had led the nation to dance “to the EU’s tune”.

The European Union (EU) has admitted the Brexit agreement, allowing trade talks to begin, is not legally binding, describing it as a “gentlemen’s agreement.”

The European Union (EU) could withhold Britain’s €5 billion budget rebate, with negociators issuing a two-week deadline for meeting their unwavering demand for a €60 billion (£53.6 billion) Brexit ‘divorce bill.’

Brexit secretary David Davis has told a German business conference that his government is pursuing a ‘No Change’ transition deal with the EU, and that Britain will remain “the same country it has always been” after Brexit.

Brexit Secretary David Davis has confirmed that Britain will leave the European Union without a deal if parliament votes against the final deal that he has negotiated.

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The Tory Brexit secretary has bluntly said Britain’s Brexit withdrawal agreement will “probably favour” the European Union (EU).

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.

LONDON (AP) — Brexit negotiations between Britain and the European Union may not end until the last moment before the U.K. officially leaves the bloc in March 2019, Britain’s minister for leaving the EU said Wednesday.

Speaking at a joint press conference with Britain’s David Davis in Brussels, EU head Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has made clear he is still not willing to do any negotiation, saying the situation was a “deadlock”.