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Figures produced by a Twitter activist which claim over 120,000 voters who backed Brexit in the June referendum have now died have been hailed and even celebrated by left wing news outlets.

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has blasted remain-supporters for blaming their woes on “hate figure” Vladimir Putin, who it has been recently suggested influenced the British referendum on leaving the European Union. The accusation was levelled in the House of

BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of 27 European Union countries on Thursday rebuffed a bid by the EU legislature for a much bigger role in talks on Britain’s exit from the bloc, an argument that detracted from efforts to show

Former Conservative Member of Parliament Douglas Carswell, who just three weeks ago hinted at a possible return to the Tory party, used his position as a UKIP MP last night to advocate so-called soft Brexit.

The government’s barrister has asserted the right of the government to trigger Brexit as the four days of hearings for the Supreme Court case came to a close. As protests continued outside the court house on Parliament Square, First Treasury Counsel

Britain’s parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of Theresa May’s timetable for Brexit last night, but 89 members voted against Britain’s future outside of the EU, and dozens more abstained.

AFP — LONDON: In a symbolic victory, British Prime Minister Theresa May today won a vote in Parliament backing her timetable for negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU). MPs voted in the House of Commons 461 to 89

Brexit supporters have rallied outside the Supreme Court to show their opposition to the judicial activism which could slow, water down or even stop the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU).

(REUTERS) – British companies continued to grow modestly in the three months to November and are expected to keep up that pace into 2017, a survey showed on Sunday, chiming with a resilient picture for the British economy so far since June’s EU referendum vote.

Nigel Farage has said Brexit was the “inspiration” for the election of Donald Trump and “directly led to the establishment getting beaten” in the U.S., and that the success of UKIP is reviving populist movement across Europe.

LONDON (AP) — The British government denied Tuesday that its strategy for exiting the European Union had been leaked through a set of handwritten notes suggesting the U.K.’s aim is to “have cake and eat it.”

The unelected president of the European Commission has urged member states to avoid holding referendums on their membership of the bloc, which is entering “a ‘last chance’ phase”.

LONDON (AFP) – The British government could face a legal challenge over whether leaving the European Union automatically would trigger a departure from the single market, the BBC reported Monday.

Former British prime minister John Major believes there is a “credible case” for a second referendum on Brexit, a newspaper reported Friday, after his successor Tony Blair suggested the process could be stopped.

An organisation working to thwart Brexit, set up by close allies of Tony Blair, has received tens of thousands of pounds from billionaire Richard Branson and the backing of singer Bob Geldof and senior Lib Dem and Labour MPs.

(REUTERS) – British Brexit minister David Davis met the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier on Monday, the first meeting of several that Britain hopes will “lay the ground for a constructive dialogue”.

European Union leaders have reportedly agreed to push the UK must towards a “hard Brexit” in order punish Britain and counter the rise of Eurosceptic movements across the continent.

(REUTERS) – Britain’s unemployment rate fell in the first three months after the Brexit vote to its lowest level in 11 years but there were some signs that a slowdown in the labour market could be coming.

(REUTERS) – Britain has no overall plan for Brexit and the strategy for leaving the European Union might not be agreed for six months due to divisions in Prime Minister Theresa May’s government, according to a leaked memo seen by the BBC and The Times.

(REUTERS) – The trial of the man accused of murdering British lawmaker Jo Cox a week before Britain voted in June’s referendum on membership of the European Union is due to begin on Monday.

The former Deputy Prime Minister and erstwhile leader of Britain’s struggling Liberal Democrat party Nick Clegg has slammed President-Elect Donald Trump, and used his coming term to call for deeper British integration with the European Union.

LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party said on Friday his lawmakers would vote against triggering the formal process of leaving the European Union unless the government promises to hold a second referendum.

BLACKPOOL, England, Nov 8 (Reuters) – The message to Prime Minister Theresa May from this English seaside town rings loud and clear four months after it voted for Brexit: Britain should leave the European Union as soon as possible. Many

Analysis of the demographic makeup of constituencies suggests that anti-Brexit parties could win 150 fewer seats than pro-Leave parties in a general election.

An NHS children’s therapist has shocked a Question Time audience by saying she hoped the children of people who voted to leave the EU contracted illnesses which couldn’t be cured – to teach their parents a lesson.

Backbench Tory rebel Stephen Phillips has resigned from parliament, citing “significant policy differences” between himself and the government. The former Tory MP, who represented the strongly Euroskeptic constituency of Sleaford and North Hyekham in Lincolnshire, has been very vocal in his

Familiar political phrases including Brexit, snowflake, mic-drop, and Trumpism have been entered into the Collins English Dictionary as part of their annual acceptance of neologisms — or newly minted words and phrases.

BBC One should restore the tradition of playing the national anthem at the end of the day’s programming in honour of Brexit, a Conservative MP has said. Andrew Rosindell has tabled a motion calling for the anthem to be played

Following the success of Brexit, it feels like the United Kingdom’s duty is to spread the rediscovered notions of freedom and independence across the European Union. As British Conservative politicians of Polish descent who have been active in the Brexit campaign,

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has suggested the UK could hold a second referendum to overturn the Brexit vote, calling on Remain supporters to “mobilise” against leaving the European Union.

In 2005 my people, the Dutch, rejected the European Constitution in a referendum. But the European Union made some cosmetic changes to the text and, by 2009, forced it down our throat anyway as the “Treaty of Lisbon”.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will have tariff-free trade with the European Union after it leaves the bloc as it is in both sides interests to do so, transport minister Chris Grayling said on Sunday. Asked whether the EU’s floundering free

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain could slash its headline corporation tax rate to 10 percent from 20 percent if the European Union refuses to agree a post-Brexit free trade deal or blocks UK-based financial services firms from accessing its market, the

Prime Minister Theresa May is to meet with the first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to plot the path towards Brexit, her office said Sunday. May will host the first meeting of the Joint Ministerial Committee (JMC) since

The young anti-establishment leader who could become Italy’s next Prime Minister has called for the European Union (EU) to go easy on Britain as it negotiates its way out of the bloc. Luigi di Maio, 26, who is a senior

The past fortnight has seen numerous speeches from British politician’s concerning Brexit. The Prime Minister, in her first speech to Conservative Party Conference as leader, responded to the defeatism which consumes much of the political establishment. Theresa May pointed out