Brexiteer Cabinet members have backed down and supported the Prime Minister’s plan for a customs union “backstop” which could keep the UK tied to European Union (EU) rules for years after the divorce.
The Irish Premier called for the UK to remain tied to the European Union’s (EU) Customs Union, as Theresa May prepares new Brexit proposals that she says will keep the bloc happy and the Irish border open.
Leading Brexit supporter Jacob Rees-Mogg MP has warned Britain faces “perpetual purgatory” in the European Union, after the government signalled it would be willing to remain tethered to the bloc’s Customs Union after 2021.
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.
A clean Brexit, taking the UK out of the European Union’s (EU) Customs Union, is the public’s favourite option in relation to customs checks and trade after the UK’s divorce from the bloc, a survey has found.
Theresa May has attacked the leading Brexit-backing Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg in front of other MPs, slamming his support for a clean Brexit, outside the Customs Union with the Irish border open.
The Foreign Secretary has defended a clean Brexit and blasted the Prime Minister’s “crazy” plan to keep the UK tied to the Customs Union, as Theresa May moves to pressure her cabinet into back the plan.
European Union (EU) bosses want to control the UK’s post-Brexit trade policy as they fear a hard left Labour regime led by Jeremy Corbyn will clam down on free trade and competition.
Bureaucrats are telling the government that Britain cannot leave the EU’s Customs Union before 2023 – seven years after the public voted for Brexit.
Theresa May’s plan to keep the UK tied to the European Union (EU) with a “customs partnership” is faltering, as the bloc rejects it and the majority of her Brexit cabinet is now opposed.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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 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.
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.
The Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has warned that staying in the EU’s Customs Union after Brexit would render Britain “irrelevant”.
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’.
Theresa May has insisted the UK will leave the European Union’s (EU) Customs Union and Single Market, but still remain close to many of the bloc’s institutions, rules, and regulations after Brexit.
European Council President Donald Tusk has doubled down on demands that Northern Ireland remains tied to the European Union’s (EU) rules after Brexit, shortly before a critical meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May.
The Prime Minister will push back against European Union (EU) demands that Northern Ireland effectively remain inside the Customs Union, despite agreeing in December to keep the region in “regulatory alignment” with the market.
The International Trade Secretary has blasted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s plans to keep the UK tied to a European Union (EU) customs union whilst shunning trade deal with the U.S. and other large economies as a “sell-out of Britain’s interests.”
Jeremy Corbyn has said his party will push to keep the UK permanently tied a customs union with the European Union after Brexit, appealing to Tory rebels to help him vote down the government and block or frustrate a clean, full Brexit.
Leave-supporting Labour MPs have warned party leader Jeremy Corbyn it would be “playing with fire” for him to back plans by Tony Blair to sabotage Brexit.
The UK will sign up to European Union (EU) regulations on a “voluntary” basis but will be able to “diverge” from the bloc’s rules in some ways, the Cabinet has concluded after an eight hour Brexit meeting.
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has backed calls for the UK to remain tied to European Union (EU) institutions after Brexit, with the creation of a “partial” customs union.
The leadership of the Labour Party is secretly plotting with the European Union (EU) to potentially allow more migrants in and keep the UK tied to the bloc’s Customs Union, memos suggest.
The so-called Brexit ‘transition’ period is “not a given” and could fail to materialise, European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier has insisted.
Northern Ireland will remain locked in the European Union’s (EU) Single Market and Customs Union, a hardline draft withdrawal agreement, seen by British negotiators, has demanded.
LONDON (AP) – Prime Minister Theresa May’s office underscored Monday that Britain will not remain in a customs union with the European Union after the U.K. breaks with the 28-nation bloc.
Britain’s small and medium-sized businesses overwhelmingly want a clean break with the European Union (EU), outside the bloc’s Single Market and Customs Union.
Theresa May is set to give herself the power to create a Customs Union with the European Union (EU) nearly identical to the current one after Brexit.