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Steve Anglesey looks at online reaction as Britain’s food shops prepare for a no-deal Brexit. Thank goodness for the earlier football transfer deadline! This self-inflicted wound, which disadvantages English teams while Europeans can still trade freely, has provided welcome relief from the problems of Brexit. But before we were obsessed with the transfer market, we […]

Voters would back remaining in the EU by 53% to 47% if a referendum was held now, according to a major poll. Some 45% want a say on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations with 34% opposed, the survey for the People’s Vote campaign found. If talks break down, half of voters said the final […]

Immigration targets will have to be scrapped after Brexit to allow companies to recruit enough staff, the Confederation of British Industries (CBI) has said. The organisation has warned that uncertainty over the issue means UK firms are already suffering from a shortage of migrant workers and that the ‘blunt target’ immigration policy will have be […]

In summer 2016 my wife sent to our MP a detailed response about the conduct of the referendum, outlining all our now too-familiar concerns. In summer 2016 my wife sent to our MP a detailed response about the conduct of the referendum, outlining all our now too-familiar concerns. She received an acknowledgement that her letter […]

Tim Walker’s diary focuses on how the Brexit-backing Telegraph owners’ businesses are impacted by Brexit, David Cameron delays submitting company accounts, Patrick Stewart and the challenge of playing King Lear and Chuka Umunna’s campaign to reclaim the colour mauve. The principal risk currently impacting on the parcel operator Yodel is ‘customer confidence from the uncertainty […]

Another clickbait headline is getting Twitter exercised. But, says CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ, the anger misses the target. This week the Twittersphere reacted with outrage over a headline. Nothing new there, of course. But bear with me, because the headline to this Telegraph exclusive was special. ‘Women will have to give up work to look after […]

Billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe – the country’s wealthiest man and an advocate of Brexit – is leaving the UK for Monaco. Sir Jim, who has previously claimed that he was ‘optimistic’ about the future of the UK after Brexit, has chosen to leave the country months before the decision is implemented. The founder of chemical […]

Boris Johnson broke ministerial rules when he took on his Daily Telegraph column after quitting as foreign secretary, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments has said. The committee, known as Acoba, said it was “unacceptable” that he signed a contract with the Telegraph on July 12 – three days after quitting as foreign secretary – […]

Boris Johnson is to face investigation by an independent panel following complaints that his comments on the burka breached the Conservative Party’s code of conduct. It is understood that the process is being triggered automatically after the receipt of a number of complaints over the former foreign secretary’s comparison of Muslim women in face-covering veils […]

With food shortages just one likely outcome of a no-deal Brexit, download and display our poster and Make Britain Rake Again A no-deal Brexit would likely be the most serious economic shock since the Second World War – with even pro-Brexit ministers like Dominic Raab, and even Theresa May herself, admitting that industry should supply […]

One of the leading campaigners against Brexit looks for upsides in the aftermath of the UK’s looming departure from the European Union. Gina Miller was speaking to Krishnan Guru-Murthy on the Channel 4 News podcast Ways to Change the World when she was asked about any possible upsides to Brexit. She admitted the debate could […]

Sir David Jason has suggested that Del Boy would have backed Brexit because the hapless character – whose harebrained, get-rich ventures invariably failed – would have seen it as opportunity to make money. The Only Fools and Horses star told the Sun that the sitcom character would have seen the UK leaving the European Union […]

With the MPs absent from Westminster and the country approaching crisis Andrew Adonis imagines how our Belgium sleuth Poirot would get to the bottom of Britian’s malaise. Britain’s Amazing news. Curtain isn’t Agatha Christie’s last Poirot thriller. It turns out there is one set in the spring of 1939, which Christie was persuaded by Neville […]

A weekend of action is set to take place in Bristol with a ‘clean graffiti’ art protest providing one of the highlights. On Friday 10th August shoppers walking through the city centre of Bristol – the hometown of street artist Banksy – will be greeted by an artistic protest inviting local people to stand up […]

On a week when more reminders of the past left us fearing for the future MICHAEL WHITE asks what would Winnie do? Lord Carrington, last of the Tory toffs to grace the top end of a cabinet table, died the other day at 99. So did Squadron Leader Geoffrey Wellum (96), a teenage Battle of […]

While the country burns around him former prime minister David Cameron was once again spotted at a festival – surrounded by women and with a cocktail in hand. https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1026423822789083139 Cameron – largely credited with getting us into the Brexit mess by holding the EU referendum – has appeared largely unremorseful about the EU referendum result […]

For some it may be one of the few benefits of Brexit, however for millions of young Love Island viewers this could be yet another consequence of a political decision they didn’t back. An MP has warned that the next series could be cancelled because Brexit will make it harder for contestants to apply and […]

Boos and cries of ‘Stop Brexit’ greeted Theresa May as she arrived in Edinburgh. The prime minister was visiting the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as the city celebrated the massive arts festival. But as she arrived for their performance at Edinburgh’s Assembly Hall she was greeted by heckles. ‘Any plans for when the government collapses, Theresa?’ […]

Ruth Davidson has backed calls for Boris Johnson to apologise over his “gratuitously offensive” comments on the burka. The Scottish Conservative leader said she believed the former foreign secretary should say sorry for comparing women wearing face-covering veils to bank robbers and letter boxes. Ms Davidson is the latest senior Tory to condemn Mr Johnson […]

Border Force staff could face having time off blocked if Britain leaves the EU without a deal. Proposals were reportedly sent to home secretary Sajid Javid as the government explores emergency arrangements for a no-deal scenario. Under one option, time off would be blocked for officers in the four weeks from March 24 – five […]

Consultant Andy Pardy packed in his job, bought a van and embarked on a very unusual anti-Brexit mission As a passionate pro-European mourning the potential of Britain’s last summer in the EU, Andy Pardy was looking for some kind of project to vent his frustration at Brexit. The epiphany came as he was running, and […]

Boris Johnson has been asked to apologise for his remarks comparing women in burkas to “letter boxes”. We’ve been here before As recently as March, the political Timothy Lumsden was forced to eat humble pie after referring in the Commons to his then Labour opposite number Emily Thornberry as the “Lady Baroness whatever” – an […]

In the absence of focused leadership for peace it’s time we demand more of ourselves, says MIKE HARDY ‘Sometimes, when we watch the evening news and consume our daily diet of stories of intense violence, extremist and anti-social behaviour, we question our abilities to stop our collective plummet into the abyss. It may be true […]

Labour has warned of a rise in far-right politics after Boris Johnson made inflammatory comments about Muslim women who wear face veils. Lumping the former foreign secretary in with ex-English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson and a group described as fascists who stormed a left-wing bookshop, John McDonnell called for a campaign of resistance. […]

In the past, The Edinburgh Fringe has often been a hotbed of some of the most satirical and illuminating political comedy. So what does 2018 have to offer? The writer and novelist JOHN NICHOLSON is our man in the Athens of the North When many of our most important politicians are such ridiculous, ludicrous, grotesque […]

STEVE ANGLESEY introduces the drink Leavers will cheer… until they read the bottle Not to everyone’s taste, but intoxicating to some and the cause of many headaches and much regret later on. It seems like whiskey and Brexit were made for each other. So thirsty Leavers will no doubt be cheering the arrival of Brexit […]

There would be a risk to the public from a Hard Brexit, police chiefs have warned. Police and crime commissioners have written to the home secretary to express concern over what withdrawing from the EU will mean for security measures. They have asked Sajid Javid to confirm the Home Office has developed a contingency plan […]

The Article 50 process could be suspended by the end of the year, Nigel Farage has claimed. With the risk of a ‘no deal’ Brexit becoming more likely and public opinion moving away from the UK exiting the European Union, Nigel Farage told listeners of his LBC show that there will be a ‘huge surrender’ […]

Conservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis has called on Boris Johnson to apologise for comments he made about Muslim women wearing burkas. The call followed a hail of criticism for Mr Johnson’s remarks, which were described as “offensive” by Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt and “bigotry” by former Tory chair Baroness Warsi. Writing in the Daily […]

Farmers have called on the government to make food security a top priority on the day the country’s cupboards would run bare if households relied only on British produce. A long-term decline in self-sufficiency that has stagnated at around 60% in recent years means around three quarters of the shortfall is imported from the rest […]

Ministers in Liam Fox’s trade department still haven’t visited a number of countries they want to strike post-Brexit deals with, it has emerged. Despite having identified them as targets for trade deals once Britain leaves the EU, no minister from the Department for International Trade has visited countries including Ukraine, Algeria, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic […]

Boris Johnson has come under fire after saying that Muslim women wearing burkas “look like letter boxes” or bank robbers. The former foreign secretary came out against calls for a ban on the face-covering veils in public places, but described them as “absolutely ridiculous” and compared their wearers to rebellious teenagers. His comments, in response […]