PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday that Britain’s decision to leave the European Union should not jeopardise the bloc’s principle of free movement. “They have decided to leave. I think the worst attitude would be to
LONDON (AP) — In the crucial days before Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson embraced Britain’s “leave campaign,” he wrote a newspaper column explaining why Britain should remain inside the European Union — but those forceful words were never published before Britain’s
A man died just hours after he was brutally beaten and threatened with being set alight by his neighbour, who was angry with him for having voted for Brexit, a court has heard. Duncan Keating, 58, was hit with a
Here’s a speech on Brexit I gave recently to the Bruges Group which most of you will enjoy because it features: A bit where I describe the joy of bathing in Remainer tears and watching the inconsolable BBC presenters trying to
The EU project is failing. Brexit is the symptom rather than the cause, and the UK is the first domino which could topple the entire political project of a United States of Europe. Euroscepticism is on the rise in rest
PARIS (AFP) – The EU must be “unyielding” in the face of Britain’s demands on the terms for its divorce from the bloc, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday.
It had been obvious from at least the date of the last general election that the honourable Douglas Carswell MP was doing his utmost to damage UKIP. When I said this few believed me. But the preview of Owen Bennett’s
(REUTERS) – British consumer morale rocketed back to pre-Brexit levels in September, a survey found, confounding expectations that the vote to leave the EU would wreak more lasting damage on Briton’s willingness to spend.
UKIP’s leader in the London Assembly has slammed the city’s Mayor for pushing for a “destructive and divisive” separate immigration system for the capital after the UK leaves the EU and takes back control of its borders.
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government’s legal reasons for stating that Prime Minister Theresa May has the power to begin divorce proceedings from the European Union without parliament’s authority were made public for the first time on Wednesday.
Britain voted to leave the European Union thanks to former Prime Minister David Cameron’s “shit campaign” to persuade them to stay, Germany’s European Commissioner has said. Günther Oettinger, who serves as the EU’s Telecoms and IT Commissioner, said Brussels must
It has been claimed that then-Home Secretary Theresa May refused to support former Prime Minister David Cameron on tough immigration controls because “we just couldn’t go against Merkel”.
(Reuters) – A group opposed to Britain’s exit from the European Union has accused the government of refusing to allow it to make public the official justification for triggering Article 50 to start the Brexit process without a parliamentary vote.
The world’s ‘leading’ economic think-tank, repeatedly cited by the Chancellor to push ‘project fear’, has humiliatingly U-turned on its ‘doomsday’ Brexit warnings, predicting strong growth for the UK.
British voters are showing very few signs of regretting the decision to leave the European Union, one of the country’s leading pollsters has said. Professor John Curtice of the British Polling Council said there was little evidence of “buyer’s remorse”
Last Wednesday, in his ‘State of the Union’ address, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker attempted to put forward an upbeat vision of the EU. Largely ignoring the Brexit-sized elephant, Juncker instead chose to stick to his tried and tested approach: “The European
The European Union (EU) could sue the UK, attempting to stop Britain forming trade links with major nations before it has fully left the block, the government has been warned.
A group of Conservatives including high-profile backbench MPs have established a ‘Leave means Leave’ group to keep the pressure up on the government in the run-up to Brexit negotiations with the European Union. Members of parliament including former justice minister Dominic
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday she was looking at a work permits system to control migration from the European Union, responding to Brexit voters’ demand for tighter border controls.
LONDON (AFP) – The boss of popular British pub chain Wetherspoon on Friday mocked critics who had forecast economic disaster in the event of Brexit — and called on the government to scrap trade talks.
The bounce back in Britain’s economy from the initial shock of the Brexit vote has expanded to the country’s recruitment and housing markets, according to two surveys which had previously painted a bleak outlook.
Anti-Brexit campaigners are raising money to hand out European Union flags during the Last Night of Proms: traditionally a staunchly British affair. Proms – known full as The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC – are an eight
Front National leader Marine Le Pen praised the “courage” of the British people for voting to leave the European Union (EU). She promised that if elected president she would hold a referendum on France’s membership of the political bloc.
LONDON, United Kingdom – Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday to demand that Prime Minister Theresa May heed the will of the British public and begin the process to get the UK out of the
Britain’s economy showed its clearest sign to date of bouncing back from the initial shock of June’s vote to leave the European Union, but a big slowdown in growth and a further Bank of England rate cut remain on the cards.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Monday he wants to negotiate a “very strong” free trade agreement with Britain after it leaves the European Union.
Tony Blair has said voters “have the right” to change their minds and the UK could remain inside the European Union (EU) if public opinion shifts, demanding Europhiles continue to push ‘project fear’.
British businesses recovered some confidence about their prospects after a post-Brexit vote scare, but remained largely pessimistic about the economic outlook, a survey showed on Friday.
The President of the European Council has slammed “detached” European “elites” and insisted the “chaos” of last year’s migrant crisis cannot be repeated as he announced a meeting on keeping the bloc together after Brexit.
The Electoral Reform Society (ERC) has published a report demanding establishment institutions have far-reaching new powers to control future referendum campaigns, including the ability to silence those they consider “misleading”.
Britain will never leave the European Union (EU) because the process is too complicated, a legal expert has claimed. His comments prompted UK Independence Party MEPs to warn that Project Fear is “alive and kicking”.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will not hold a parliamentary vote on Brexit before formally triggering Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday, without specifying sources.
Britain’s high streets are heaving with shoppers despite June’s shock vote to leave the European Union, big companies have reported few signs of distress and some tabloid newspapers are even talking about a post-Brexit economic boom.
The president of Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, has said the UK could join a new North Sea union to link countries with common trading and energy interests after Brexit.
A leadership candidate for Britain’s opposition Labour party, Owen Smith, said on Wednesday he would try to get parliament to block talks on leaving the European Union unless the government promises a second referendum or election.
The Clinton campaign alongside the establishment media have begun blowing the Vladimir Putin dog-whistle, just as their European counterparts did during the United Kingdom’s referendum on its membership of the European Union (EU). Almost as if on cue, news outlets have
A lone programmer has exposed the vulnerability of the British Government’s petitions website to external vote-rigging.
The leaders of Germany, France and Italy will meet on Monday to discuss how to keep the European project together in the second set of talks between the premiers of the euro zone’s three largest economies since Britain’s shock vote to leave the bloc.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has slammed the “catastrophe” Brexit vote and “pushing back against globalisation” whilst praising an autocratic sharia state a role model for the rest of the world.
Turkey’s Ambassador to the European Union (EU), Selim Yenel, has claimed the countries Islamist president “saved democracy” in Turkey, which will join the EU in just a few years.
