The Brexit verdict set the stage for protracted negotiations, as officials were at loggerheads over exit conditions, timelines, and the likelihood of a future EU reunion. Eventually, the waiting ...
He also warned Labour that it has to “stop debating Brexit on your opponents’ terms”. The party should “stop being so defensive about spelling out the facts, the scale of the disaster that ...
By David Gauke The received wisdom in Westminster is that the Brexit process was so bruising and divisive that no party aspiring for power will want to go near the European question for at least a ...
Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Eight years ago, voters across the UK faced a historic choice in the Brexit referendum. Now, five years after officially leaving the EU ...
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has dominated headlines during President Donald Trump’s second term. Nigel Farage, the Reform UK party leader who initiated Britain’s ...
The disconnect between political and economic timelines remains a significant, and underappreciated, cost of Brexit. As I have written in the past, the extended timeline for a political resolution ...
Opinions are split on how much of a benefit Brexit has or can be. Economists and thinktanks regularly cite massive figures in the tens or hundreds of billions when they talk about the negative ...
The country went through two more Conservative prime ministers to "get Brexit done” and another three since. Last year, Labour returned to power for the first time since 2010, promising a "reset” of ...
Lord Mandelson has performed a U-turn over Brexit by saying that Britain should 'break loose' by seizing the 'new opportunities' made possible by the historic Leave vote. The UK's new ambassador ...
The impact of Brexit will become increasingly evident on the island of Ireland as the UK diverges from the EU, a new report has warned. According to the think tank 'UK in a Changing Europe', areas ...