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Donald Trump’s attacks on CNN and NBC alongside the protests surrounding Stephen Yaxley-Lennon are warning signs for a renewal of fascism, writes Alastair Campbell. You can read elsewhere in this week’s New European Nick Cohen’s brilliant analysis of the failings of the BBC in the Brexit debate. I won’t add to his criticisms here, but […]

The BBC is failing the people it is meant to serve in the nation’s hour of need, Nick Cohen writes. Read the BBC’s response to Nick Cohen’s stunning essay… and his blistering response here. Late last year, BBC executives had the nerve to erect a bronze statue of George Orwell outside its headquarters in central […]

Senior BBC editor JAMES STEPHENSON responds to Cohen’s article on behalf of the Corporation. Is the BBC frightened of journalism? Read Nick Cohen’s original essay here. Nick Cohen acknowledges the BBC ‘follows the highest journalistic standards’. Were he to apply those standards to his own essay, he would find he has ignored a number of […]

The Labour peer examines the impact of his party’s internal battle with anti-semitism on its primary job – opposition. The clue is in the name – opposition. The job of the opposition is to oppose. Alas, we haven’t seen much of that lately (except opposing those seeking to root out anti-Semitism from within the Labour […]

A hardline Tory MP who quit as a ministerial bag-carrier over Brexit today demanded that any of his colleagues who called for a second referendum resign their seat. Chris Green, Tory MP for Bolton West who quit as a transport PPS over Theresa May’s Brexit white paper, told the Commons that any MP who wanted […]

The Department for Transport (DfT) “still has much to do” as it prepares contingency measures for a no deal Brexit, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has warned. The New European is an award-winning national newspaper campaigning against Brexit. If you find this article informative, please share it and also consider supporting our journalism by subscribing. Further work […]

Liam Fox has brazenly told EU leaders the “ball is in their court” over the Chequers Brexit plan and threatened of the catastrophic damage a “no-deal” situation could do to their economies. The New European is an award-winning national newspaper campaigning against Brexit. If you find this article informative, please share it and also consider […]

The prime minister is finally to make her first visit to the Irish border since the Brexit referendum. The New European is an award-winning national newspaper campaigning against Brexit. If you find this article informative, please share it and also consider supporting our journalism by subscribing. Theresa May had been criticised for not hearing first-hand […]

Boris Johnson is to make a personal statement to the House of Commons on his resignation as foreign secretary following the weekly session of prime minister’s questions, it has been confirmed. The New European is an award-winning national newspaper campaigning against Brexit. If you find this article informative, please share it and also consider supporting […]

Tory rebel and leading Remainer Anna Soubry has blasted the government in a stinging rebuke at Theresa May’s Brexit shambles. She even went as far as calling for a government of national unity to deal with Brexit made up of Plaid Cymru, the SNP and ‘other sensible, pragmatic’ MPs. She told BBC Radio 4’s Today […]

The Tory failure to stick to a voting pact with a senior opposition MP on maternity leave was not “good enough”, Theresa May has said. The New European is an award-winning national newspaper campaigning against Brexit. If you find this article informative, please share it and also consider supporting our journalism by subscribing. Conservative chairman […]

Those summer holidays are looming large in everyone’s mind. But for the prime minister and the leader of the opposition the final PMQs before recess offers one last chance to land a blow that would have the other wincing well into the holiday period. Jeremy Corbyn hit a raw nerve immediately pointing out some cabinet […]

Ireland and the EU are very frustrated at the UK government’s shifting positions on Brexit, the country’s deputy premier has said. The New European is an award-winning national newspaper campaigning against Brexit. If you find this article informative, please share it and also consider supporting our journalism by subscribing. In a special Brexit meeting taking […]

Northern Ireland farmers and businesses who trade over the Irish border are being kept in the dark about how their livelihoods will be affected post-Brexit, according to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee members. The New European is an award-winning national newspaper campaigning against Brexit. If you find this article informative, please share it and also […]

Tory rebels defeated the government on a key element of the Trade Bill – but Theresa May sneaked over the line on the customs union vote. There were frantic scenes in parliament as Tory Whips threatened the rebels in a bid to get them to vote down the amendments. But MPs voted in favour of […]

Boris Johnson has been accused of not being fit to be an MP as it emerged he broke ministerial rules in taking a new job as a Daily Telegraph columnist. The New European is an award-winning national newspaper campaigning against Brexit. If you find this article informative, please share it and also consider supporting our […]

Labour has accused the government of a trade policy “power grab” as veteran Tory MP Ken Clarke criticised his frontbench for a “scandalous abuse” of Parliament. The New European is an award-winning national newspaper campaigning against Brexit. If you find this article informative, please share it and also consider supporting our journalism by subscribing. The […]

Claims a boost in NHS spending could be covered by a ‘Brexit dividend’ have been rubbished by the Office for Budget Responsibility. In a devastating assessment of Britain’s finances it dismissed suggestions that the increased NHS spending could be paid for with extra cash after we leave the EU stating ‘Brexit is more likely to […]

Brexit is now being shaped by ministers who have a record of failing and dismissing the young, says TOMMY GALE of Our Future, Our Choice The New European is an award-winning national newspaper campaigning against Brexit. If you find this article informative, please share it and also consider supporting our journalism by subscribing. You may […]

A former Liberal Democrat leader has been forced to apologise after missing a key Brexit vote in the House of Commons. Both previous leader Tim Farron and current boss Sir Vince Cable were absent for the government-backed amendments to Theresa May’s Chequers proposal. One of the amendments was passed in favour of the government by […]

After the death of Franco and the end of censorship, Spanish cinema entered an erotic film phase which helped shape the modern nation. Madrid, June 1978. A sweltering heatwave is matched by the tensions bubbling through newspaper headlines. Nearly three years since the death of dictator Francisco Franco, politicians are intensely debating the new constitution […]

Vote Leave has been slapped with a fine and reported to the police over spending breaches during the Brexit referendum. At the conclusion of a probe into spending, the Electoral Commission said its investigation found ‘significant evidence’ of joint working between lead campaigner, Vote Leave, and another campaign group, BeLeave. But Vote Leave hit back […]

Theresa May is facing the possibility of another Commons defeat after attempting to bring forward MPs’ summer holidays in the middle of the latest Brexit political crisis. MPs are due to rise for the summer recess on July 24 but a motion tabled last night would see the Commons rise on Thursday, with a vote […]

Today’s cave-in from the prime minister has led to an extraordinary series of blue-on-blue attacks in the House of Commons as Tories on both sides of the debate traded insults. The most notable exchange came from Anna Soubry who warned that the PM no longer appeared to be in charge of her party, and said […]

TIM WALKER on the plays that show nothing ever changes in politics. Gielgud Theatre, London, until September 7 If there’s one political speech that’s stood the test of time – and I always wonder at how brilliantly manipulative it is every time I hear it – it’s the ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen’ eulogy that Mark Antony […]

Theresa May has bowed to pressure from Tory Brexiteers after accepting crucial changes to her Chequers Brexit plan. Eurosceptics tabled amendments to the Government’s Customs Bill aimed at imposing strict conditions on the Prime Minister after she produced a plan at Chequers that would keep the UK closely tied to Brussels’ rules on goods and […]

Psychotherapist Emmy van Deurzen on the impact of Brexit on mental health and the launch of an initiative which tries to help those affected Each day brings new information about the devastation that leaving the EU will visit upon us from next April, when we plan to cut ourselves off from our trusted partners. Our […]

A new round of major EU meetings are taking place this week, but Britain’s new Brexit secretary Doninic Raab will not be attending. British diplomats have confirmed that Raab will not be attending the first round of negotiations on Monday, instead choosing to speak at a summer drinks event organised by the right-wing free market […]

Brexit is moving into a new and hopefully terminal phase. Aware that they have no majority in the parliamentary Conservative Party, the Brexiteers are in retreat. I expect this new era will be soundtracked by moans about how their special Brexit has been ruined and how all its golden opportunities have been lost in a […]

Theresa May faces a make-or-break period as she battles to keep her premiership on track until Parliament’s summer recess. MPs will drift away from Westminster and its febrile atmosphere when the Commons rises on July 24, potentially giving the Prime Minister some breathing space – but further challenges remain in the autumn. Here are some […]

Another ministerial aide has quit as Theresa May comes under intense pressure from Brexiteers to change her controversial blueprint for leaving the European Union. North Cornwall MP Scott Mann resigned as parliamentary private secretary to the Treasury on Monday morning. He has become the ninth Tory MP to hand in his resignation in just ten […]

No wonder Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is so desperate to go for the kill. But the prospects of an early general election, which Corbyn so eagerly desires, seem remote. Unless the Government is defeated on a vote of confidence. Rarely has an official position faced such a ragbag of a Government in such a state […]