Brexit

There are still days to go before the special Chequers Cabinet meeting on Brexit – but  Europe’s politicians are getting impatient. At lunch today in The Hague the Dutch Prime Minister told Theresa May it was now time provide clarity on “every aspect” of the UK’s future relationship with the EU. The pressure is mounting in…

Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg discusses the government’s EU negotiations.

“Pipe down” and “Put a sock in it” – the playground insults from senior Tories were flying on Twitter today in response to arch-Eurosceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg’s warning that the Prime Minister must deliver the Brexit she promised or risk the collapse of her government. It feels as though an out-and-out civil war is in full…

Tens of thousands of anti-Brexit campaigners have marched through central London on the second anniversary of the vote to take Britain out of the EU – demanding another referendum on any final Brexit deal. But if pro-Brexit government cabinet ministers have their way – there could be no deal at all. And it’s been reported…

Two years after Brexit what does Britain think about immigration? It was an issue that defined the referendum, and in the intervening months it has stayed high on the agenda. So while the scandal of how Windrush immigrants were treated by the Home Office saw the resignation of the Home Secretary, and discussions about the…

It’s become one of the defining moments in British immigration history – the arrival of the Empire Windrush liner at Tilbury docks 70 years ago today. The anniversary of when Caribbean migrants first arrived in large numbers to rebuild Britain after the war was celebrated today at Tilbury and in Westminster. The government recently apologised for…

If Brexit means an end to freedom of movement, Britain will need a brand new immigration policy. Indeed it was the reason many people voted to leave. And while many have thrown up their hands in horror at what’s been going on at the Mexican border or in Italy and Hungary, an exclusive poll for…

Labour MP Rushanara Ali and Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell discuss Airbus.

It’s not an idle threat, it’s the dawning reality of Brexit, says Airbus. The government insists it isn’t expecting a no-deal scenario, but the official negotiating position is still that no deal better than a bad deal. And Airbus believes that would be so terrible it might have to leave the country, and with it…

Using words like “bad faith” and “betrayal”, pro-Remain Tory MPs have accused the Government of ripping up an agreement they had made with Theresa May earlier this week. The row is over what role Parliament should have if the Brexit negotiations look like failing. The rebels MPs say that a compromise amendment, published by the Government…

Dominic Grieve’s team thinks there’s a compromise amendment they can live with. It was brokered into the night by Oliver Letwin and is now being poured over by DEXEU (the David Davis team) and by the ERG. Yesterday saw some amazing flurries of speculation and briefing. One particularly surprised Remainers as reports flew around that…

As politicians wrangle over the Brexit details, what do people away from Westminster make of its progress two years on from the referendum? We went to Brexit-backing Blackpool to find out.