Matt Withers
02 September 2023
Ash’s Tim Wheeler: ‘It’s such a pain in the arse, Brexit’
The Northern Irish rockers on Brexit, Britpop and their blistering new album
Read the full article23 August 2023
Brexit’s chilling effect on the UK music industry
Restrictions are hampering musicians' ability to work in the EU
Read the full article21 August 2023
Are Suella Braverman’s days as home secretary numbered?
Sunak has given her a vote of confidence as criticism grows and a reshuffle looms
Read the full article10 August 2023
Tobias Ellwood: ‘The single market? We will be back in a decade’
Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says both his party and Labour are being dishonest over the disaster of Brexit
Read the full article10 August 2023
Leaving the ECHR may be just talk, but it’s dangerous talk nonetheless
Rishi Sunak sees threatening to leave the European Convention on Human Rights as an opportunity to replay the old tunes. It is a mistake
Read the full article08 August 2023
Does Lee Anderson understand how the internet works?
The Conservative deputy chair has denied ever criticising MPs' second jobs, despite the evidence being there for all to see
Read the full article04 August 2023
Why Rishi Sunak’s warm words on farming are shameless
While the prime minister lauds Britain's farmers, the industry struggles to cope with a Brexit triple whammy of his government's own making
Read the full article01 August 2023
Liz Truss’s mini-budget hiked up the UK’s Brexit divorce bill even further
The plummeting pound saw the government book a £91 million loss
Read the full article19 July 2023
Survey: Now 58% of Leavers want closer ties with the EU
And a majority of Britons now identify as ‘European’, says poll for British Foreign Policy Group
Read the full article16 July 2023
Brexit hampered Britain and the EU’s response to the Ukraine invasion, says report
Differences meant rival diplomats were discouraged from talking to one another
Read the full article11 July 2023
Wes Streeting: ‘I can’t see a credible route back into the EU in the foreseeable future’
Labour’s shadow health secretary on Europe, class, Murdoch and his new memoir
Read the full article28 June 2023
Celebrating Ulysses, the great European novel
Marking the centenary of a book whose roots run far wider than just Dublin
Read the full article23 June 2023
How Ukip came crashing down to earth
The party that scared David Cameron into offering a referendum on EU membership is now little more than an extremist husk. What happened?
Read the full article21 June 2023
The 10 biggest lies of Brexit
Seven years since the referendum, how have the “promises” made by the most prominent Brexiteers panned out? Here’s a rundown of the 10 most spectacular untruths
Read the full article27 May 2023
What the Faroe Islands want
The island nation in the north Atlantic has a bone to pick with the EU
Read the full article26 May 2023
How to tell the story of the Troubles
A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum captures the experience of everyday people who lived through the years of conflict
Read the full article15 May 2023
No, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Brexit did not stop Putin’s Ukraine invasion from succeeding
The Conservative MP claims Brexit helped thwart Putin's Ukraine invasion. He is wrong
Read the full article23 April 2023
Mike Galsworthy: Brexit has failed and we must be ready to rejoin, step-by-step
New chair of the European Movement gives surprise backing to Labour’s cautious approach
Read the full article21 April 2023
Public support for Brexit inquiry soars as Parliament set for debate
Extraordinarily, three years after the UK formally left the EU, it will be the first time that MPs have had an opportunity to debate the impact of Brexit
Read the full article17 April 2023
Who murdered the UK leg of the Orient Express?
The iconic service, the setting for Agatha Christie’s famous novel, is to scrap its British leg next year - and the culprit is Brexit
Read the full article13 April 2023
‘Some of my best friends in textiles voted for Brexit. It amazed me’: The lace boss who went viral
Charles Mason on how a post-Brexit duties demand has battered his family's historic lace firm
Read the full article12 April 2023
Liz Truss has shown what she learnt from her time in No 10 – nothing
The sheer chutzpah of the 50-day PM traversing the globe to dispense her unique wisdom to those fortunate (and rich) enough to receive it would be almost admirable, were she not serving up such lamentable, disprovable tosh
Read the full article03 April 2023
Don’t mention the B-word on Dover delays
Port officials say the disruption is largely caused by Britain leaving the EU, but Conservative MPs know better
Read the full article31 March 2023
Badenoch: Critics must stop talking about Brexit
The business secretary told people not to “keep talking about a vote from seven years ago” as she trumpeted a new trade deal
Read the full article31 March 2023
How Brexit relegated English football
The decision to leave the EU makes it harder for young European footballers to play in the Premier League
Read the full article30 March 2023
Brits have more confidence in the EU than Westminster, survey shows
Only 24% now say they are happy about Brexit, with 49% unhappy
Read the full article27 March 2023
Humza Yousaf declares himself “a proud European” as he wins SNP leadership
The first minister elect vows to take an independent Scotland back into the EU
Read the full article27 March 2023
Brexit as bad as Covid for the economy – says government’s own watchdog
Living standards will not return to pre-pandemic levels for another five to six years, the Office for Budget Responsibility has said
Read the full article22 March 2023
Rows on the Right: Reform, UKIP and the People’s Front of Judea
The rump UKIP's bid to unite the hard-right vote is falling on deaf ears at Richard Tice's party
Read the full article15 March 2023
Drain the swamp? The Tories don’t even want you to know who dumped the sewage
A short-sighted target of removing EU legislation from the statute book by the end of the year will be a huge blow for protecting the UK's waterways
Read the full article14 March 2023
Another manufacturer bypasses Britain – because of Brexit
The world’s largest seller of electric and hybrid cars will not consider building its first European car factory in the UK because of the impact of Brexit
Read the full article06 March 2023
Šefčovič’s loose lips could signal trouble for Rishi Sunak
The glowing headlines of less than a week ago seem considerably further away for the prime minister
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