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There is a “plausible argument” for the public to be asked to vote again on Brexit if MPs remain deadlocked, a Cabinet minister has said. Amber Rudd acknowledged her comments would “distress” some of her Tory colleagues and stressed she was fully committed to Theresa May’s Brexit deal. But Commons leader Andrea Leadsom hit back […]

Judges at Scotland’s highest civil court have rubber-stamped a European Court of Justice decision allowing the UK to unilaterally revoke its withdrawal from the EU. The Luxembourg court ruled last week that the UK can go back on its decision to trigger Article 50, which started the Brexit process, without the agreement of the other […]

Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of being “the midwife of Brexit” after failing to call a no-confidence vote in the government. The Labour leader tabled a motion calling on MPs to declare they have “no confidence in the prime minister due to her failure to allow the House of Commons to have a meaningful vote […]

3,500 troops will be on stand-by to deal with the impact of a no-deal Brexit, it has emerged as Theresa May ramps up her planning. The prime minister’s Brexit deal remains the preferred outcome for the government, she continues to insist, but with just over 100 days until the UK’s departure from the bloc the […]

Theresa May spent almost £100,000 on Facebook adverts promoting the Brexit deal before the vote was pulled. Figures from the social media firm reveal that in the week leading up to the key vote – which has now been pulled – the government spent nearly £100,000 advertising through Facebook and Instagram. MORE: ‘EU legislation at […]

A cross-party group of anti-Brexit politicians has said the UK can ‘stop the clock’ on Brexit after a top European law officer said the country can unilaterally revoke its withdrawal from the EU. Alyn Smith MEP, one of those who brought the case, said the opinion issued by a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate […]

Britain can unilaterally reverse its decision to leave the EU, Europe’s top court has been told, as Remain supporters try to pave the way for a People’s Vote that would stop Brexit. Aidan O’Neill QC is representing a cross-party group of politicians who launched the action to determine whether the withdrawal process triggered under Article […]

A Labour frontbencher has broken ranks with the party leadership and called unequivocally for the people to have a say on the final Brexit deal. Steve Reed, Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow culture minister, has written in London’s Evening Standard newspaper that a fresh referendum was the only way to unblock the impasse facing Parliament. It comes […]

Brexit secretary Dominic Raab has told a tech event that he “hadn’t quite understood” the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing for UK trade. According to the website Politico, Raab was speaking last night when he confirmed the choice of goods available to buy in the shops would be hit unless “frictionless trade” was maintained at […]

Reverend Richard Coles treated his Twitter followers to a quite incredible painting of Theresa May riding a lion, apparently discovered in a charity shop in Poole. The Saturday Live presenter tweeted the striking image to his 172,000 followers, saying: “This, spotted by someone in a charity shop in Poole apparently, must surely be saved for […]

A manufacturing firm is to close two sites in the UK with “uncertainty” surrounding Brexit given as a factor behind the decision. Automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler said the sites in Plymouth and Llanelli, South Wales, will close within two years. It is understood that up to 500 jobs could be affected. The German-owned company […]

Remainer Tory MP Dominic Grieve has said proposals for the UK to remain in a customs union after Brexit made the whole process “questionable”. The former attorney general told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “At the end of the day it highlights why the entire enterprise is questionable, because in fact what we are likely […]

The self-anointed ‘bad boy of Brexit’ Arron Banks is being investigated for ‘suspected criminal offences committed during the EU referendum’. Arron Banks with Nigel Farage Photo: PA / Ben Birchall – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images The Electoral Commision’s director of poltical finance said the commission has ‘reasonable grounds’ to suspect money donated to Better for […]

John McDonnell has announced today’s Labour Brexit policy: a customs union and a “close” relationship with the single market. The shadow chancellor said Labour MPs would vote in favour of a Brexit deal which “protects jobs and the economy” – echoing Jeremy Corbyn’s mantra of a “jobs-first Brexit” – but acknowledged that was “not the […]

A no-deal Brexit may be the “most likely outcome” of negotiations, Nicola Sturgeon has told MSPs. The prime minister said that while the terms of Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc were 95% agreed, there remained an “impasse” over the issue of the Irish border. Sturgeon said she was “increasingly concerned” about the prospect of leaving […]

Nigel Farage has made a rare appearance in the European Parliament to attack his own country’s civil service, accusing it of being “the enemy within”. The Ukip MEP for South East England turned up for work to denounce the UK negotiating team under Olly Robbins as attempting to sabotage Brexit and said Britain was heading […]

World-leading scientists have warned Theresa May not to allow Brexit to create new barriers to collaboration across Europe. Dozens of winners of the Nobel Prize have written to the prime minister and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker setting out their concerns. Their message was echoed by the London-based Francis Crick Institute, which warned that a […]

In June more than 100,000 campaigners marched against Brexit. On October 20th organisers are expecting an even bigger crowd calling for a People’s Vote. Why are people marching? Polls in recent months have shown that a majority that support a People’ Vote. Organisers say that ‘whether you voted to Leave or Remain, nobody voted to […]

The number of Brits seeking to reclaim their German citizenship has leaped following the Brexit vote, it has been revealed. A German government response to opposition politicians published today says 1,667 people applied to Germany’s embassy in London last year to reclaim the citizenship they or their ancestors were stripped of by the Nazis. The […]

DUP MPs who prop up Theresa May’s government are preparing to vote against her budget if the prime minister breaks their Brexit red lines. The radical move is one of the options being considered by the DUP if attempts to nail down a deal with Brussels include any proposals that would leave Northern Ireland being […]

Your holiday flights to Europe could be grounded in the event of an “unfriendly” Brexit, the head of the Whitehall spending watchdog has warned. Sir Amyas Morse, the head of the National Audit Office, said many existing arrangements with the EU would require “goodwill” on both sides if they were to continue if Britain leaves […]

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has claimed that a People’s Vote from Labour might not include an option to Remain. Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain McDonnell said the form of the question would be decided by parliament but said ‘it will be about whether you accept the deal or not, or whether you send people […]

The senior civil servant running Northern Ireland’s public services since Stormont collapsed has expressed his deep concern for the region if there is no Brexit deal. David Sterling, the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, told an event in Brussels that many local firms might find it “impossible” to continue to trade normally if […]

Leaving the EU without a Brexit deal would inflict “substantial costs” on the UK economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. In the latest of its regular assessments of the state of Britain’s finances, the IMF said that all likely Brexit scenarios would “entail costs for the UK economy”, but that a disorderly departure […]

Jaguar Land Rover has announced that more than 3,000 staff will move to a three-day week at its Castle Bromwich plant in the West Midlands, just hours after a Tory Brexiteer accused its boss of “making it up” when warning that a Hard Brexit would wipe out profits and cost tens of thousands of jobs […]

A bad Brexit deal could “jeopardise patient care” in hospitals, nurses have warned. In a letter to party leaders, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) claimed Brexit poses an “immediate risk to the provision of safe and effective care”. The warning comes as the RCN calls on all political parties to back a referendum on […]

The European Commission has backed a newly-launched petition calling for Britons to be able to retain EU rights after Brexit. The petition – ‘Permanent European Union Citizen’ – has this week launched as a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI). ‘The main objective of the proposed initiative is to guarantee that European citizenship and its associated rights […]

Anti-Brexit campaigners have been helping ministers with their mass medical stockpiling as the Department of Health and Social Care prepares for a no-deal Brexit. The young activists were dressed in doctor and nurse gowns and armed with wooden crates used as props to demonstrate the panic stockpiling that would ensue if the UK crashes out […]

The chance of a chaotic no-deal Brexit is now “50-50”, Latvia’s foreign minister said today in a stark warning to Theresa May. Edgars Rink?vi?s said there was a “very considerable risk” of a no-deal scenario but insisted he remained optimistic an agreement with Britain on its withdrawal from the EU could be reached. He said […]

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 […]

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 […]