Another referendum on Britain’s EU membership could see Brexit reversed if it is held today, according to a new poll. The vast majority of all voters say they would prefer to rejoin the EU. What is striking is that among Generation Z, who were too young to have participated in the 2016 referendum, support for… Read More »
A UK teacher has said she is “sick” about returning home to Spain after a three-year battle to get a post-Brexit residence permit, after her application for a residence permit was rejected because she missed a month of health cover in the first year after the UK left the EU. Mark Saxby, 56, says he… Read More »
America was to be Britain’s route to the sunny plateaus of Brexit. Later, after hopes of a free trade agreement evaporated, successive Conservative governments set their sights lower, seeking to forge closer ties with individual US states. Now civil servants responsible for executing state-level deals have been sacked in what one angry British businessman has… Read More »
David Cameron has returned from space to say Nigel Farage wants to destroy the Conservative Party, is playing “dog whistle” politics and the Conservative Party should move a mile away from him. Thus the battle lines for the next leadership contest are being drawn. The early advantage goes to elites who say the party has… Read More »
In Britain it is often felt that we specialize in losing: we delight in destroying our sense of self, the good parts of our history, and especially our winning ideas, either by letting others steal and sell them, or by terrible follow-ups – from beginning to end. We did it with Blair’s noble drive to… Read More »
Post-Brexit passport rules attract the attention of many travelers (Getty/iStock) I still have my original black British passport somewhere. When it was over, the passport office asked if I wanted the old one returned – and I said yes, for emotional reasons (so I could lay my hands on it longingly and look at the… Read More »
Boris Johnson has attacked Rishi Sunak’s new Brexit deal with the DUP, warning it could bind the UK to EU trade rules in the future. Mr Sunak’s government has announced new regulations that will remove routine checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland in a bid to restore power-sharing at Stormont. The… Read More »
Boris Johnson has attacked Rishi Sunak’s new Brexit deal with the DUP, warning it could bind the UK to EU trade rules in the future. Mr Sunak’s government has announced new regulations that will remove routine checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland in a bid to restore power-sharing at Stormont. The… Read More »
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak campaigned for Brexit Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak campaigned for Brexit New Brexit Checks for EU goods coming to Britain are about to arrive – so why does this matter? While we leave the EU in January 2020, the government has been trashing this particular element of the exit agreement… Read More »