Rumours are swirling that Theresa May is willing to effectively leave Northern Ireland within the EU’s Customs Union and Single Market to meet its demands on Britain’s border with the Irish Republic.
Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary has used the party conference to insist the UK could stay inside the European Union’s (EU) Customs Union and Single Market
Labour has retreated even further from its previous support for a clean Brexit from the EU’s Single Market and Customs Union, with Sir Keir Starmer suggesting Britain should stay in the latter indefinitely.
Immigration is the British public’s top concern when it comes to Brexit talks, a new poll has revealed.
The British Government’s leading Remainer, Philip Hammond, is thought to have triumphed over his Leave-supporting rivals in Cabinet, with the UK set to agree to a transitional Brexit which will allow the EU to block new UK trade deals.
Chancellor Philip Hammond and Brexit Secretary Liam Fox have teamed up to promise the UK will leave the Single Market and the Customs Union, and will not stay in the European Union (EU) via the “back door”.
The Labour party’s shadow Brexit Secretary and Chancellor have said the party is open to a so-called ‘soft-Brexit’ with the UK still locked inside the European Union’s (EU) Single Market.
International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox has said that the “very big, very powerful” trade deal which U.S. President Donald Trump wants to negotiate with Brexit Britain will be only one of many around the world, as the country takes its place as “the global champion for free trade”.
Brexit has received another boost from Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who said Britain will have “big horizons and big opportunities” outside the EU and announced his desire for a quick trade deal.
Queen Elizabeth II has announced the Government’s two-year legislative programme, with Brexit at its heart.
The chancellor of the exchequer has demanded Britain remains subjected to the existing customs arrangements of the EU, unable to make new trade deals, until a new “long term” system is agreed.
Long thought to have been fighting a rearguard action against Brexit within the Tory Cabinet, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has conceded Britain will leave the bloc, its Single Market and its Customs Union – with a few caveats.
The China Railway Corporation has established a 7,000 mile freight link between the United Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom, a move which could “revolutionise” trade between the two countries.
Quitting the European Union’s customs union could see Britain become a “beacon of global free trade” and create nearly 400,000 jobs, an analysis based on EU figures has shown.
