Brexit poses wide-ranging risks to animal welfare, including a shortage of vets, costlier veterinary medicine, and an increase in the numbers of animals used in research, according to a new report by the Green Party's Animals Spokesperson. Keith Taylor MEP, who is also Vice Chair of the European Parliament's Animal ...
Airbus has warned it could take flight away from the UK without imminent clarity over customs rules after Brexit. The European aerospace manufacturer said it would soon have to decide whether to start stockpiling parts to avoid border delays, adding costs that could make its British operations uncompetitive. Airbus employs about ...
The ex-PM John Major has re-entered the Brexit debate. A prominent Remainer he spoke out over the way the Brexit negotiations are going, in his opinion. Major, talking at an event in central London, said that British people have “every right” to vote in a second referendum, to decide if ...
Yesterday Jeremy Corbyn set out Labour’s vision for a post-Brexit Britain; he wants the UK to remain part of the customs union to maintain a stable trading block with our European partners. Mr Corbyn also hoped that a “bespoke” arrangement could be reach to ensure that there was no hard ...
As more Conservative MP’s threatened rebellion over Theresa May’s insistence on ruling out a customs union with the EU, Jeremy Corbyn today exposed how fragile her parliamentary majority is by setting out Labour’s red lines for Brexit. The Labour leader said he would work towards an economy that “works for ...
Many Remainers were hoping that the UK could at least stay in the customs union after the UK leaves the EU. However, this is now looking highly unlikely as the health secretary ruled it out today. Hunt appears to have drawn a line under the issue and the Government will ...
A crowd-funded anti-Brexit bus that quoting government figures for the cost of leaving the EU launched today, but got stuck on London's narrow streets. The "Is It Worth It?" campaign bus is making 33 stops on an eight-day tour of the UK. The bus is in Brexit Bus red, but instead ...
It’s been almost 12-months since Prime Minister Theresa May, triggered Article 50 and thus started the formal process for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. Whilst the political bickering at Westminster and the slow pace of negotiations have left many issues unanswered, something that has flown below the ...
After criticisms that Corbyn prefers to lay into the Prime Minister on the familiar territories such as the NHS crisis, police cuts, poverty and the treatment of disabled people, today at Prime Minister's Questions the Leader of the Opposition sought to capitalise on Conservative Party divisions on Brexit. Watch the ...