Jaguar Land Rover's announcement that it plans to axe up to 5,000 jobs shows a "Brexit bomb is exploding over Britain’s manufacturing industry", The Independent's Chief Business Commentator James Moore has said. The car manufacturer said it will be making thousands of job cuts in the new year as part of a ...
David Cameron is advising Theresa May on how to get her doomed Brexit deal through parliament, ITV journalist Robert Peston has sensationally revealed. The former Tory leader, who called for the referendum in the first place, has turned "Brexit-crisis adviser" to the current PM in what has been described as being ...
Sir Richard Branson thinks a no-deal Brexit would "near bankrupt" the UK. Branson made these comments to the BBC. He was "absolutely certain" that leaving the EU without a deal would cause the closure of "quite a few British businesses". Sir Richard was speaking from the Mojave desert in California ...
Uncertainty caused by Brexit is causing buyers and sellers to sit tight in increasing numbers across the UK, according to the November 2018 RICS UK Residential Market Survey. Looking at London, the results from the latest survey continue to show a weaker trend in sales with demand and supply falling ...
Jeremy Corbyn was combative mood in today’s PMQs demanding that the PM puts her Brexit deal to parliament immediately. The Labour leader accused the government of behaving in a ‘totally unacceptable way’ to the House of Commons. May had cancelled the vote this week and instead made a dash across ...
Former Brexit secretaries Dominic Raab and David Davis have teamed up with DUP leader Arlene Foster to launch a campaign for a "Better Deal" for Brexit. The Guardian's Brexit correspondent Lisa O'Carroll has reported that the trio will unite in protest against Theresa May's tabled deal with Europe, which triggered ...
Sterling fell to a new 20-month low against the Dollar on Tuesday and it looks like the on-going turmoil is not going to steady the currency for the foreseeable future. Compared to the Euro it was at a three and a half month low. Now with the PM facing a ...
The PM is touring EU capitals to keep her deal alive
A cunning analogy comparing Brexit to a cheese submarine is going viral on social media. The Twitter thread, created by funnyman Hugo Rifkind, describes how the best way to understand Theresa May’s predicament is to imagine that 52 percent of Britain had voted that the government should build a submarine out of ...