Journalists were left “laughing uproariously” after Angela Merkel poked fun at May’s poor attempt to negotiate a post-Brexit deal. She said that she felt trapped in a loop with May since the Brexit vote back in 2016. Merkel made her comments in a “secret” press briefing, during the World Economic ...
@BenGelblum The economy will grow more slowly outside the EU even if the UK manages to strike a final deal with Brussels reveals a leaked government report on the different Brexit scenarios. The nation’s income would be 5 % lower in 15 years time with a free trade agreement with ...
As the UK economy becomes increasingly automated there are fears that the workforce in the North and Midlands will be adversely damaged, and these areas had a large percentage of Brexit voters. It is thought this will widen the north-south divide in the lead up to 2030. A total of ...
David Davis today backtracked on new EU rules during the Brexit transition, saying Britain will not refuse to use them. The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union has opted for a "hit and hope" approach on new rules instead, relying on the EU taking a long time to implement them ...
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has slapped down an expected demand from Boris Johnson for a post-Brexit cash boost for the NHS. Johnson was hoping for a £5 billion NHS "Brexit dividend." The Chancellor reminded Boris he is the Foreign Secretary, without responsibility for health spending, as he arrived for a ...
An anti-Brexit campaigner has blasted the BBC in an open letter for allegedly saying “when” the UK leaves the EU and not “if”. Kim Spence-Jones, 62, has written to BBC chairman Sir David Clementi, claiming the broadcaster’s stance that Brexit will happen is “factually incorrect”. In the open letter, he ...
Jeremy Corbyn is under "huge pressure" to shift Labour Party policy on Brexit, the Observer has revealed today after a poll carried out by the publication found a substantial majority of existing and potential Labour voters want him to back permanent membership of the EU’s single market and customs union. According ...
A vet campaigning for a hard Brexit has ended up in the dog house over an anti-EU poster - which says Europe has already "raped" Britain over a deal. Trevor Dixon, 69, donned the slogan in big black lettering on the window of his veterinarian practice in Goole, East Yorks. ...
A new report published today by Cambridge Econometrics on behalf of the Mayor of London has revealed that a hard Brexit would increase inequality between London and the rest of the UK. It says that the effects of leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union would be “noticeably more ...