Ask most people in inner city London how they felt when they found out that Britain had voted to leave the European Union, and the chances are the memories are not happy ones.
Shoppers in Britain shrugged off June’s shock Brexit vote as retail sales jumped by much more than expected last month, adding to signs there has been little immediate hit for consumers.
The British Olympics Association has threatened pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.eu with legal action after they posted a video on Twitter in support of the British Olympics team. The thirty second video contrasts suggestions made by anti-Brexit campaigners during the referendum
Britain may be given a “special status” in its relationship with the European Union (EU) after Brexit, the country’s European Affairs Minister has said. Michael Roth told a press conference yesterday the UK would be treated differently to other non-EU
One of the UK’s largest bus operators has defended its practice of hiring only EU migrants for some rolls, whilst turning down fully qualified British workers.
A Northern Ireland human rights activist has launched a legal challenge against any British attempt to leave the European Union, saying it would be in breach of the 1998 peace deal that brought peace to the British province.
Britain has to keep unlimited immigration after Brexit if it wants a free-trade deal, senior European governments are demanding. In a survey that shows how big the challenge will be for Theresa May’s government in negotiating a good Brexit deal,
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said activity had started to improve after an initial wobble.
Retail sales have bounced back as good weather and summer sales outweigh concerns of the predicted ‘financial doom’ forecast by the Remain campaign’s ‘project fear’, giving way to a UK Brexit “feel good factor”.
Officials from the Treasury and the Department for Exiting the European Union have made contact with the City to discuss the best way to sever ties with the political bloc before the Government triggers Article 50.
The announcement of Sir Julian King’s new role as Europe’s new “Commissioner for the Security Union” has been celebrated by some as a sign of the European Commission getting serious about Brexit. They point out how King could have been given a derisory role which some Brussels insiders had previously joked about. This however ignores the reality of King’s new role.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said on Friday Britain’s economic problems today are not a repeat of the financial crisis and that Britons should not worry about the supply of credit.
Small businesses along the Italian riviera have started to fly the Union flag to protest a European Union ruling which would open the area to multinational businesses.
Brussels has insisted the UK taxpayer foots a bill of more than £5 billion for the pensions of 1,730 retired British European Union (EU) bureaucrats after it voted to leave the block.
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will on Tuesday outline her bid to reshape the British economy for a post-Brexit world, reviving the once unfashionable concept of industrial policy 30 years after Margaret Thatcher killed it off.
A cross-party coalition of unelected members of the House of Lords is plotting to block, delay or “revisit” the referendum result.
(REUTERS) – Most Scots still back remaining in the United Kingdom despite Britons voting to leave the European Union, a move which was opposed by the majority in Scotland, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday.
LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) – Most Scots still back remaining in the United Kingdom despite Britons voting to leave the European Union, a move which was opposed by the majority in Scotland, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday.
The United Kingdom’s decision to Vote Leave in the referendum on June 23rd should have been a wake-up call for EU leaders. In the largest election turnout in the history of the UK, 17.4 million people chose to leave an organisation which they believe is detrimental to their interests.
Lloyds Banking Group, which blames massive job cuts and branch closures on Brexit this morning, doubling its pre-tax profits last year and has now admitted the cuts were planned long ago and have nothing to do with the referendum result.
(REUTERS) – A French politician who introduced a swathe of European financial regulation after the financial crisis was named on Wednesday to represent Brussels in negotiations on Britain’s exit from the European Union, drawing a cool response in London.
The Independent reports today: The Government must urgently prepare for a possible surge in immigration ahead of Brexit while allaying fears over British and European citizens being used as “bargaining chips”, a Parliamentary report has warned. The Home Affairs Committee predicted
LONDON – Britain’s economy picked up during a second quarter that concluded with the vote to leave the European Union, helped by the biggest upturn in industrial production since 1999, according to official data on Wednesday. Second-quarter gross domestic product grew
LONDON, July 26 (Reuters) – Britain should leave the European Union quickly and not be drawn into a discussion about watering down the voters’ clearly expressed wish for limits on immigration, senior Conservative lawmaker John Redwood said. Redwood, an intellectual
(REUTERS) – GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) plans 275 million pounds of new investments at three drug manufacturing sites in Britain, signalling its confidence in the country despite last month’s vote to leave the European Union. Britain’s biggest drugmaker, which had argued against
Peter Hitchens writes in the Mail on Sunday: It will be good for Britain if Jeremy Corbyn wins his fight to stay as leader of the Labour Party. I agree with the late Queen Mother that the best political arrangement for
French authorities have been accused of punishing British holiday makers for voting to leave the European Union by severely understaffing the border at Dover which left an estimated quarter of a million holiday makers and travellers stranded on roads leading
CHENGDU, China, July 24 (Reuters) – Britain’s new finance minister Philip Hammond sought to address concerns among global finance chiefs about the uncertain path ahead for the country’s exit from the European Union, saying there could be more clarity later
(Reuters) – Days before Britain’s referendum on whether to leave the European Union, former Prime Minister David Cameron made an appeal to German Chancellor Angela Merkel for limits on the free movement of people, the BBC reported on Saturday. Britons
British Prime Minister Theresa May and France’s President Francois Hollande have reached a “very clear” agreement to keep border controls between the two countries in Calais, on the French side of the Channel. During the run-up to the referendum on
Nearly a month on from Britain’s historical vote to exit the European Union (EU), the Bank of England has admitted that the British economy shows no sign of slowing down, negating doom-laden forecasts made during the EU referendum campaign.
Germany and Britain agreed Wednesday that Prime Minister Theresa May needed time to prepare for talks to leave the EU, after London took the first step towards Brexit by giving up its presidency of the European Council. On her first
Despite the majority of Britons voting for Brexit, Britain must hold a second referendum to “unite the country” as “irresponsible” voters are not qualified to vote on the issue, Richard Dawkins has claimed. The famous atheist also claimed Brits did
European Union (EU) citizens who move to Britain during the negotiations to leave the EU are unlikely to be allowed to stay, the new Brexit minister, David Davis has said, in comments designed to avoid a pre-Brexit surge of people
The majority of Britons are opposed to a second referendum on membership of the European Union and almost half believe new Prime Minister Theresa May should carry on without calling a general election, according to a poll published on Saturday.
Pro-Brexit activists have disrupted Theresa May’s first speech as Prime Minister, demanding she does not “delay” and invokes Article 50 now. A left-wing counter-demonstration was held, leading to the detainment of a so-called ‘anti-Fascist’ while allegedly attacking the pro-Brexit crowd
David Davis MP, Britain’s new Minister for Exiting the European Union, has said that Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty must be invoked by the end of the year, triggering Britain’s departure from the Union. The new Prime Minister Theresa
The Austrian Finance Minister has urged UK parliamentarians to forget about the Brexit vote, and claims Northern Ireland and Scotland may leave the UK if Britain leaves the European Union (EU). Austrian Finance Minister Hans Jörg Schelling, of the conservative Austrian
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that she is looking forward to meeting Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May, and does not plan to put Mrs. May under any pressure when it comes to Brexit. But she has warned
The Daily Telegraph reports: French fishermen fear that Brexit could wreck their industry if they are denied crucial access to British territorial waters in the Channel. The French National Fisheries Committee complained on Tuesday that larger vessels accustomed to fishing in
