Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage expressed optimism for the future of a beneficial post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union, in light of the Conservative government’s recent tough stance in negotiations with the bloc.
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Newly appointed Swedish European Union Minister Hans Dahlgren has declared that despite the multiple setbacks faced by Prime Minister Theresa May, he believes an orderly Brexit will occur on March 29th.
Around 40 Tory MPs have gathered to “openly” discuss how to remove Theresa May as Prime Minister, with the support of just 48 needed to trigger a vote of no confidence.
The UK could be heading for ‘Brexit in name only’, which would be the worst of all worlds, because of government and civil service “incompetence” and weak handling of divorce talks, the former Bank of England governor has said.
Pro-European Union (EU) Tory MPs are concerned about UKIP “entryism” after reporting a sharp rise in new members at local party branches.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the government will “appear fretful, weak, and incompetent” if it fails to prepare for a “no deal” clean Brexit, as they are accused of pushing “project fear” so the public will back a softer Brexit.
The British public is overwhelmingly opposed to the Prime Minister’s plan for a “soft” Brexit and almost a third of voters are prepared to back a new, right wing party committed to a clean Brexit, a poll shows.
British banks are prepared for Brexit and European banks have failed to prepare adequately, the head of the Financial Conduct authority has said in comments reported by Britain’s Times newspaper. European regulators are playing rough with British banks to scare businesses
More than 60 backbench Tory MPs have sent the Prime Minister a list of demands that will guarantee a clean break from the European Union with “full regulatory autonomy” outside the bloc.
Former Liberal Democrat leader and anti-Brexit campaigner Nick Clegg has said the UK will leave the European Union’s (EU) Single Market and Customs Union.
The leading Brexit backing MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has demanded the government “fundamentally change” it’s “tone” on Brexit, as the Chancellor called for a clean Brexit to be abandoned with only “very modest” changes to the UK’s links with the 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.
A leaked European Union (EU) dossier has revealed the bloc’s growing concern about the economic damage Brexit will do to individual regions.
The prime minister must avoid a “soft Brexit” and ensure the UK is free from all major EU institutions and courts after 2019 or Brexit-supporting backbench MPs could “block” the final divorce settlement, The Bow Group has warned.
The government has ordered ministers to negotiate a Brexit “transition period” for the eventuality that trade talks fail and the country leaves the European Union (EU) without a trade deal.
British voters would rather see a so-called hard Brexit from the European Union rather than a slower departure, or even not leaving at all a new poll conducted for British newspaper The Guardian/Observer has found.
The Labour Party will impose a three-line whip on its MPs to vote against the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill in a move described as a “monstrous betrayal” of voters.
The fragile truce established between Remainers and Brexit supporters has shattered in a matter of days, as the Foreign Secretary and International Trade Secretary prepare to oppose the lengthy “transition deal” agreed by Brexit Secretary David Davis under pressure from Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond.
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.
Government insiders are disputing the substance of a recent coming together by Philip Hammond — the Cabinet’s leading Remainer — and Dr Liam Fox — a committed Brexit supporter.
The Labour Party has finally acknowledged that Britain must have a full, clean Brexit from the EU’s Single Market and Customs Union.
A senior EU politician has told the BBC that Britain can expect a Brexit agreement “much broader and deeper” than the EU-Canada trade deal.
Senior government adviser Andrew Adonis has stirred controversy by comparing Brexit to appeasing Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and warning that Britain is in “serious danger”.
Pro-EU diehards in Britain suffered fresh embarrassment on June 12th as unemployment fell to a 43-year low, despite high-profile official warnings that a Brexit vote would push it up by 500,000.
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.
The Japanese ambassador to the United Kingdom slapped down premature celebrations of a Japan/EU trade deal, as Hungary admits it is the EU which stands to lose if it does not make a deal with Britain.
Insiders claim the Government is abandoning its ambitions for a so-called “have your cake and eat it” Brexit, and are considering trading away sovereignty in order to protect “economic interests”.
The Government has committed to scrapping the Fisheries Convention of 1964, allowing Britain to take back control of its territorial waters from the EU out to twelve miles – but fishermen are concerned that failure to commit to reclaiming the country’s full, 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) signals an impending betrayal.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has sacked three MPs from his Shadow government for voting to keep Britain inside the European Union’s Single Market and Customs Union. Andy Slaughter and Ruth Cadbury, shadow ministers for housing, and Catherine West, a shadow foreign
Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful Sir Vince Cable has revealed he is holding informal talks with Tory Remainers to force the Government into a so-called ‘Soft Brexit’.
One year on from the public’s historic vote to Leave the European Union, negotiations have only just begun and MPs are still arguing over whether to actually go ahead with Brexit.
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.
Ulster’s Democratic Unionist Party, which is expected to prop up Theresa May’s minority government over the coming months, has spurned Tory Remainers who hoped they would force the Prime Minister to ask the EU for a so-called ‘Soft Brexit’. According
A strong 70 per cent of the British public want the government to get on with Brexit, despite claims the general election result shows people turning away from leaving the Europe Union.
The European Parliament’s chief Brexit coordinator has mocked the UK and said it can only re-join the European Union (EU) on poorer terms, including being £4 billion-a-year worse off.
Ministers in Britain’s new minority administration are predicting “utterly bitter, trench warfare” in the House of Commons, as Europhile politicians attempt to dilute or derail Brexit.
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives is set to wield considerable influence over Theresa May’s minority administration – but who is Ruth Davidson?
Ruth Davidson, the Europhile leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, will use her newfound influence in Parliament to push for a so-called ‘Soft Brexit’ which puts the Single Market ahead of controlling immigration.
George Osborne insists the General Election results mean “there is no majority in the House of Commons for a hard Brexit” – but campaigners familiar with the Tory and Labour Party manifestos have rubbished his claims.
