Brexit

Michael Gove has left Twitter users incredulous after sharing results from an online quiz about TV show Game Of Thrones on his official Twitter account. The tweet, sent at 11.20am today, left many Twitter users asking why the secretary of state for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) was not using his […]

A Labour frontbencher has broken ranks with the party leadership and called unequivocally for the people to have a say on the final Brexit deal. Steve Reed, Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow culture minister, has written in London’s Evening Standard newspaper that a fresh referendum was the only way to unblock the impasse facing Parliament. It comes […]

A Tory MP is reported to have refused to vote with the government after a newspaper columnist said colleagues described him as “thick as mash”. Andrew Bridgen, a Brexiteer MP who last week claimed 48 letters of no confidence in Theresa May had been sent but were being hidden by Sir Graham Brady, chairman of […]

Parliament will not accept a no-deal Brexit, Cabinet minister Amber Rudd has said. And she warned Tory rebels that Brexit may not go ahead if MPs reject Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement in a House of Commons vote expected next month. The work and pensions secretary was speaking as May came under pressure from TBrexiteers to […]

The number of antidepressants prescribed in England rose after the EU referendum compared with other drugs, a study says. National events, such as elections and financial crises, can affect mental health, researchers said. So they set out to examine whether there was a rise in antidepressant prescriptions in England after the Brexit referendum in June […]

24 Tory MPs have so far publicly declared they have no confidence in Theresa May as prime minister. Here’s who they are Steve Baker 47, Wycombe Short-lived Brexit minister and Tory hardliner who is sceptical about climate change and opposed to same-sex marriage. A co-founder in 2015 of Conservatives for Britain, a group of 50 […]

Jacob Rees-Mogg has defended his Dad’s Army operation to unseat Theresa May as PM, saying “I’ve always admired Captain Mainwaring”. Speaking at a press conference in Westminster, the leader of the European Research Group (ERG) of hardline Tory MPs denied he was trying to mount a “coup” against May, insisting he was using the legitimate […]

Theresa May’s unravelling Brexit deal hit a new roadblock today as Spain’s prime minister threatened to vote it down over Gibraltar. Pedro Sanchez said his country woulf vote against the divorce agreement between the EU and the UK if Gibraltar’s future was not considered a bilateral issue between Madrid and London. The UK and the […]

Jeremy Corbyn has again disappointed supporters who want him to back a People’s Vote by saying a “good Brexit plan” would be a “catalyst for economic transformation” in the UK. The Labour leader told business leaders his Brexit plan would include a “radical programme of investment” and fundamental changes to the way the economy works. […]

A hike in the charge to immigrants entering the UK is short-sighted to the bigger picture, argues OLIVIA BRIDGE Brexit is passing through its most precarious waters to date. High-profile MPs are abandoning ship last minute and Theresa May is tasked with persuading the remaining 27 EU member states and Parliament to agree to the […]

Maxime Xavier is the painter behind the picture of the prime minister on a lion which went viral Reverend Richard Coles did not know what he was unleashing when he treated his Twitter followers to a quite incredible painting of Theresa May riding a lion, apparently discovered in a charity shop in Poole. The Saturday […]

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme tonight comes from Milford Haven’s Torch Theatre, which next February plays host to Max Boyce. But will the panel be speaking their minds – or will they all have spin doctors’ papers? Here’s […]

Theresa May was dealt a blow this morning as a junior minister no-one had ever heard of quit a job no-one knew he had in the first place in protest at her Brexit deal. Shailesh Vara quit as Northern Ireland minister, saying he could not support May’s Brexit agreement, which he said “leaves the UK […]

The customs expert who wrote a report for the European Parliament on the solution to the Irish border post-Brexit did not actually visit it. Former Swedish customs official Lars Karlsson presented a 46-page report to the European Parliament last year showing how technological solutions could maintain as open an Irish Border as possible and remove […]

Leading Brexiteers have launched ferocious attacks on Theresa May’s reported Brexit deal, accusing her of “a betrayal of the Union” and calling for a Cabinet mutiny. A deal has been reached by negotiators in Brussels and go before a crunch Cabinet meeting tomorrow. But the hardline Leavers in May’s party have already pounced on her […]

Labour MP PAUL WILLIAMS and Conservative MP SARAH WOLLASTON on why, as clinicians in Parliament, they want a People’s Vote The message from the overwhelming majority of clinicians and scientists is clear: Brexit is bad for our health. It will be harmful for people who rely on the NHS, research, social care and public health […]

A Brexit deal has apparently been reached by negotiators in Brussels and will go before a crunch Cabinet meeting tomorrow. Downing Street said in a statement: “Cabinet will meet at 2pm tomorrow to consider the draft agreement the negotiating teams have reached in Brussels, and to decide on next steps. “Cabinet ministers have been invited […]

Brits travelling to EU nations after Brexit should not have to get an entry visa even if Britain leaves without a deal, the European Commission has said. Senior officials today discussed whether UK nationals should be treated as “third country” nationals as part of its no-deal planning, which would require travellers to buy a €60 […]

Premier League clubs are set to be forced to ensure half of their squad is “homegrown” under radical FA plans to cope with Brexit. The Times reports today the FA will put a proposal to clubs this week which would reduce the number of overseas players in each 25-man first-team squad to 12. It comes […]

Voters in many of the most marginal Conservative seats now back a referendum on the final Brexit deal, according to a major new study. The YouGov survey of more than 25,000 people revealed that a majority of voters in all 67 of the most vulnerable Tory seats now want the public to be given a […]

Louis Theroux has said he is tempted to make a documentary about former UKIP leader Nigel Farage. The filmmaker has said he is drawn to the story of the Brexit campaigner who he described as being now “in the margins” of frontline politics. Theroux is tempted to return to his When Louis Met format, and […]

Michel Barnier will update ministers from EU nations on the state of the Brexit negotiations as domestic pressure on Theresa May intensifies. Boris Johnson accused May of being on the brink of “total surrender” to the EU over Brexit as he urged the Cabinet to mutiny against the prime minister’s withdrawal agenda. And another Brexiteer […]

Jo Johnson has resigned as transport minister over Brexit and called for a second referendum. The brother of former foreign secretary Boris said: “It has become increasingly clear to me that the withdrawal agreement, which is being finalised in Brussels and Whitehall even as I write, will be a terrible mistake. “Indeed, the choice being […]

Even at a most basic level there is a complete lack of knowledge about the very nature of the Irish border, says SARAH JANE SMYTH I was born in November 1997, just five months before the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Because of this, some may assume I have seen little of the conflict which […]

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme tonight comes from Dulwich’s James Allen’s Girls’ School, whose alumni include the actress Sally Hawkins. But who will prove Happy-Go-Lucky about Brexit – and who will find themselves getting An Education from their […]

Brexit secretary Dominic Raab has told a tech event that he “hadn’t quite understood” the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing for UK trade. According to the website Politico, Raab was speaking last night when he confirmed the choice of goods available to buy in the shops would be hit unless “frictionless trade” was maintained at […]

Concern about Brexit has risen sharply among over-65s to a level almost matching the youngest voting age group, a survey suggests. Some 61% of those aged over 65 say they are worried about the impact of Brexit, a 34 percentage point increase since September 2016, when Which? began recording the data. Among those aged 18 […]

Michael Gove has been warned not to let Brexit preparations get in the way of work to protect the environment. Some 400 staff have been loaned or seconded to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from its agencies. Environment secretary Gove insisted that “priority roles” in bodies including Natural England (NE) and the […]

The Scottish Parliament has backed holding a public vote on the final terms of the Brexit deal. Holyrood voted 66 to 28 in favour of a People’s Vote after it was put forward in a Liberal Democrat amendment to a government motion during a chamber debate on the Brexit threat to international scientific research in […]

MPs should resist the pressure to accept any old Brexit deal and stand up to the new nationalism by demanding another people’s vote, says Labour MP Owen Smith The Thiepval Memorial looms over the rolling hills of the Somme region in northern France, a permanent reminder of the blood of nations that irrigated its fields […]

A report has suggested the “only winning scenario” for Northern Ireland following Brexit is a united Ireland. The Costs of Non-Unification – Brexit and the Unification of Ireland report forecasts that both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic will suffer economically after the UK leaves the EU. The report examined three potential scenarios: a hard […]

Leaving the EU without a deal would be “absurd” and the whole process of Brexit can still be stopped, Tony Blair has said. The former prime minister said the British people should be given the chance to vote again on whether to remain in the EU because otherwise they faced either a “pointless” or a […]