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Anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller has claimed the government ‘unequivocally’ accepts that it cannot close down parliament to allow a no-deal Brexit. https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1163000178896510978 The businesswoman, who last month wrote to Boris Johnson arguing any move to prorogue parliament “would be an abuse of his powers” and would result in legal action, said she had been reassured […]

Leaked official government documents reveal the UK faces a shortage of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland. The leaked documents were compiled by the Cabinet Office and look at the most likely aftershocks after a No-Deal Brexit, and have […]

Boris Johnson is set to tell Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron that parliament cannot stop a no-deal Brexit in an attempt to get a new deal with Europe. Johnson will make clear to the French president and German chancellor that Britain will leave the European Union on October 31 with or without a deal. The […]

Boris Johnson has been urged by more than 100 MPs from across the House of Commons to immediately recall parliament and let it sit permanently until Britain’s scheduled EU departure on October 31. Tory former ministers Dominic Grieve and Guto Bebb were among the signatories of a letter sent to the prime minister which claims […]

The Independent for Change group have been criticised after its leader said it would not vote against the government in an no confidence vote. As a result the numbers for a vote to remove Boris Johnson might be even trickier than expected. In a statement group leader Anna Soubry said: “To suggest, as a significant […]

Pro-EU Tory grandee Ken Clarke has said he is willing to lead a government of national unity to avoid a no-deal Brexit. The former chancellor gave his support to a proposal by Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson for an emergency government led by him or Labour’s Harriet Harman. Clarke said it was “not inconceivable” that […]

A hit list has been created that will target 150 seats where Remainers can win to tip the balance against Brexit in an early general election. Best for Britain, who ran highly successful tactical voting campaigns at the 2017 General Election and 2019 European elections, have refined their model using the most up-to-date postcode level […]

From Brexiteer James Dyson taking EU subsidies to Neil Hamilton criticising children’s political views. How well do you remember these stories? We have pulled together a quiz of ten questions which will test your knowledge of the irreverent news surrounding Brexit from the past three years. How much do you remember?

As a New European reader, you probably reckon you keep a close eye on the continent’s news. Test yourself with our quiz… Think you’re on top of what’s been going on across Europe in the past seven days? Take The New European’s tricky quiz and find out just how much of a Europhile you are…

The Brexit Party had admitted it has had to ‘trim down’ part of Nigel Farage’s UK tour – removing Scotland from its calendar of events. The list of conference tour events that were due to take place across the UK has now shrunk, with the Brexit Party organisation blaming a possible forthcoming general election, rather […]

It was the week that was meant to show a united Remain alliance that could topple Boris Johnson and stop Brexit. But far from uniting the anti-Brexit movement, the divisions between each fraction have blown open up again. Caroline Lucas’ initial proposal for an emergency cabinet saw the Green MP on the back foot after […]

A Youtuber who specialises in dubbing Monty Python dialogue onto political debates has gone viral with his latest video, and it’s perfect. Comedy YouTube account Carlos Manwelly has perfectly matched a classic scene from The Life of Brian to Boris Johnson’s first turn at the despatch box in the House of Commons. “They take everything […]

UKIP’s new leader, Richard Braine, has been active on Twitter since May 2010 and that has given him time to surprise nobody with his views on a wealth of issues. Braine has tweeted that “anti-white racism” is the most prevalent form of racism in the UK today. Picture: Twitter – Credit: Twitter Braine is vocal […]

On this week’s podcast Jeremy Corbyn makes an offer that the Lib Dems can refuse. Steve Anglesey, Geri Scott, Mia Jankowicz and Jono Read also take a look at Boris Johnson’s alternative PMQs and the furore over the Telegraph’s no-deal Brexit polling. Plus we crown another Brexiteer of the Week and the listeners give their […]

A businessman has warned there would be civil unrest if there is a no-deal Brexit, and said he would be ‘banging’ and ‘screaming’ outside Number 10 if it happened. Pimlico Plumber founder Charlie Mullins told talkRADIO’s James Whales that he believed Boris Johnson would eventually “put the country first” and seek to delay Article 50. […]

The Brexit Party said a candidate who made ‘abhorrent racist’ comments and was vetted by Nigel Farage was announced in ‘error’ this week. Nigel Farage recently claimed you’d struggle to find anything racist about him. Photograph: ITV. – Credit: Archant General election candidate for the Moray constituency Mark Nash called for mosques to be bulldozed […]

There is urgent need for collaboration between Remain parties ahead of a possible general election. PETER DUNPHY from Unite to Remain explains how he hopes the movement will go further than that. In the run-up to the close of nominations in the European Parliament elections back in April, there were a series of increasingly pressing […]

A Conservative MP has slammed Boris Johnson’s claims that some MPs have turned ‘collaborators’ with Europe to block Brexit saying his remarks are ‘unforgivable’. Boris Johnson made the comments in a Facebook Live Q&A at Downing Street. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas – Credit: PA Wire/PA Images Guto Bebb, MP For Aberconwy, labelled the prime minister’s views […]

Jo Swinson is under pressure from across the political divide to rethink her outright dismissal of Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to prevent a no-deal Brexit by becoming caretaker prime minister. SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon told the Lib Dem leader that she should rethink her rejection of the proposition, which the Lib Dem leader described as “nonsense”. […]

Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens could be left without the right to live and work in the UK after next year despite being entitled to these privileges. Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesperson, Ed Davey has raised concerns about the hundreds of thousands of EU citizens who could be left without the right to live […]

The disagreements between the opposition parties continue, as the Lib Dems refuse to support Jeremy Corbyn as a replacement for Boris Johnson. Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has suggested Ken Clarke or Harriet Harman be installed as the prime minister of an “emergency government” to resolve the Brexit crisis. Swinson dismissed Jeremy Corbyn’s challenge to […]

Campaigners calling for a second referendum have herded a flock of sheep past the Cabinet Office as they protest against the potentially devastating impact a no-deal Brexit could have on farmers in the UK. Sean Rickard (cenre), former Chief Economist for the National Farmers Union (NFU), poses with a flock of sheep alongside the Farmers […]

A Brexiteer has claimed that we did not need academics and experts to win World War II, and was promptly given a history lesson over Twitter by Remainers. This Twitter user received a history lesson. Photograph: Twitter. – Credit: Archant A user who goes by the name of Stanley White tweeted took a leaf out […]

Former Tory MP Sarah Wollaston has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying it is the best way for her to fight to remain in the EU. Dr Wollaston quit the Conservatives in February over the party’s “disastrous handling of Brexit”. The Totnes MP joined what would become the Independent Group for Change, but left that fledgling […]

Millionaire Brexiteer Arron Banks Arron Banks has come under fire for a tweet about 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg. The Leave.EU founder and pro-Brexit donor responded to a post by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas about Greta’s voyage across the Atlantic on a racing yacht, writing: “Freak yachting accidents do happen in August …” […]

Jeremy Corbyn has been told that his suggestion he should be installed as a caretaker prime minister to prevent a no-deal Brexit under Boris Johnson has been branded a ‘nonsense’ idea by Jo Swinson. The Labour leader’s proposal would be “strictly time-limited” to seek an extension to the Article 50 process to delay the UK […]

A Brexit protester who caused disruption costing more than £1 million by blocking trains running between London, Kent and France has been jailed. Terry Maher, 44, climbed on top of a tunnel overlooking railway lines near St Pancras International station in March, causing disruption to thousands of travellers with his one-man protest, according to British […]

50,000 European flags will be handed out at this year’s Last Night of The Proms as an anti-Brexit activist group raises the stakes in 2019. Pro-EU campaigners will hand out 50,000 EU flags at this years Last Night of The Proms. Picture: Niklas Halle’n – Credit: Archant The EU Flags Proms Team first organised the […]

The speaker of the US House of Representatives has said that a US-UK post-Brexit trade deal will be blocked by congress if it undermines the Good Friday Agreement. Nancy Pelosi, whose Democrat party controls the House, said that Brexit must not endanger peace in Ireland. Her comments follow those made by Donald Trump’s US national […]

Boris Johnson has used his social media platform to accuse MPs and the EU of collaborating to block Brexit, which he said increases the risk of leaving without a deal. Responding to a cherrypicked question during his so-called “People’s PMQs” on Facebook, the prime minister claimed that Brussels is “not moving in their willingness to […]

A Brexit Party MEP has made a remarkable contribution to a discussion about climate change with a surprising suggestion of his own. Please tell me this is a parody https://t.co/Y4E9xEW7PQ— badly drawn bee (@soapachu) August 14, 2019 Lance Forman was chiming in with a tweet from Brexiteer broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer, who suggested that the threat […]

A campaigner has vowed to fight on in a court case against Boris Johnson – despite a judge ruling against his appeal. Boris Johnson (left) and Dr Liam Fox at a Vote Leave event. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA. – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images A case brought by Marcus Ball as a private prosecutor claimed that Johnson […]