Brexit

Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused supporters of Britain remaining in the EU as “cave dwellers” in a speech to mark one year until Brexit. The Tory MP and Hard Brexiteer also claimed the EU would be “insolvent” if Britain left without a deal. Asked at his speech in central London how he would have responded if […]

The Sun yesterday acknowledged its story on lower prices after Brexit was false. But Jacob Rees-Mogg, who enthusiastically endorsed it, remains shtum It was, by any standards, a belter of a clarification. Appearing on page 2 of The Sun yesterday, it ran to 214 words – incredibly, longer than the original article it was correcting. […]

A Downing Street aide is facing calls to resign after allegedly “outing” a whistleblower who claimed the official Brexit campaign broke strict spending rules during the EU referendum. Shahmir Sanni claimed at the weekend that Vote Leave used its links with another pro-Brexit group to get round the £7m spending limit monitored by the Electoral […]

A poll which suggested more voters rate leaving the EU as a priority ahead of maintaining the Union with Northern Ireland did not ask a single person in Northern Ireland what they thought. More than a third of those polled (36%) for the radio station LBC said exiting the EU was a higher priority than […]

Labour is missing a huge electoral opportunity by refusing to back remaining in the EU, a conference has been told. Eloise Todd, CEO of anti-Brexit campaign Best for Britain, told the ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’ conference in central London that data from last year’s election showed Labour had benefited considerably from Remainers […]

The young stand to lose the most from Brexit. But, ahead of a series of anti-Brexit events this weekend, 16-year-old activist LEO BUCKLEY offers a rallying cry I have just turned 16, and I’ll be marching again this Saturday. But why am I the only young person I know who cares? And what can be […]

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme returns tonight from Leeds Beckett University’s Headingley campus. But who’s on the panel – and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s who you can expect… James Cleverly Who? Deputy chairman of the […]

The entire web is built on the exploitation of our data, says JAMES BALL. The latest scandal asks serious questions – not just of the tech giants but of ourselves Every day we are all bought, sold, and traded dozens if not hundreds of times. Each time we click ‘search’ on the internet, companies compete […]

To heal our cultural divide (and stop Brexit) we have to stop berating Brexiteers, says Lib Dem deputy leader JO SWINSON I had mixed feelings when The New European was launched. While it’s comforting to know there are many others who share my sense of devastation about Brexit, and are up for the fight to […]

The UK’s most senior judge has warned the government’s Brexit legislation could leave the judiciary at risk of “appearing to make a political decision”. Supreme Court president Baroness Hale said she had concerns about the legislation as it was currently drafted because it required judges to decide if it was “appropriate” to consider rulings by […]

Liberals, bureaucrats, artists, bankers and millennials have all felt their ire. Now Ukip have a new target accused of propagating anti-Brexit views – nine-year-olds. Neil Hamilton – the disgraced former Tory minister turned minor celebrity who, you may have missed, is now inexplicably Ukip’s leader in Wales – yesterday made a complaint to the BBC […]

David Davis’ Brexit transition deal with the EU will lead to a “great Christmas present” in 2020 of permanent continued membership, AC Grayling has said. The philosopher told a conference in central London yesterday that the transition period gave anti-Brexit campaigners time to stop and reverse the process, saying he was “pretty confident” Britain would […]

Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he is going to start calling himself Captain Haddock as he was forced to deny plans to fling fish into the Thames. The Telegraph reported that the Tory MP was among a group due to board a boat and pass by Parliament throwing fish into the Thames in protest at […]

Prejudice is now “worn as a badge and a sleeve of honour”, activist Gina Miller has said as she painted a grim picture of life for EU citizens in Brexit Britain. Ms Miller, the businesswoman who became the figurehead in the case to get Parliament to vote on the Brexit process, laid out a list […]

Sir Vince Cable has said the Cambridge Analytica data leak is yet another example of why Britain is wrong to walk away from the EU. The Liberal Democrat leader said that the leak of millions of Facebook users’ personal details “plays into the arguments we’re currently having about the European Union” as the European Commission […]

Anti-Brexit MP Chuka Umunna has spoken of his frustration that many in the Labour Party see his battle as being about opposing Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour MP, who last month launched a coalition of forces including The New European to fight a Hard Brexit and push for the public to get a say on Theresa […]

Remainers need to get out of their echo chambers and stop “wrapping ourselves up in the European Union flag” to win over Leave voters, Lib Dem deputy leader Jo Swinson told a Brexit conference today. She told the ‘Should I Star or Should I Go’ conference in central London that she was “concerned that we […]

A tetchy Boris Johnson took a move from the Trump playbook today, describing Brexit criticism as “BBC claptrap” while promising “a gigantic free trade deal” with the EU after Britain leaves. The foreign secretary was in a particularly cantankerous mood as he appeared on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, employing the US president’s favoured techniques […]

The first ministers of Scotland and Wales have written to peers setting their own proposed changes to crucial Brexit legislation. The Scottish and Welsh governments have been locked in a dispute with the UK government over the return of devolved powers from Brussels once Britain leaves the EU. While UK ministers have brought forward amendments […]

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme returns tonight from Cruise Terminal 1 of Dover’s Western Docks. With a list of issues longer than the backlog of lorries on Kent’s roads once the Hard Brexiteers get their way, who’s on […]

Even Brexiteers should be appalled at the way the government is mishandling Britain’s trade, says Liberal Democrat MP WERA HOBHOUSE To negotiate our own trade deals is one of the last hopes of the Conservative government to persuade the public that Brexit is a good thing. The term ‘Global Britain’ has been used time and […]

A little-known and little-noticed provision in the European Withdrawal Bill could be the key to triggering a referendum on any Brexit deal, writes ANDREW ADONIS Always read the small print. The monstrous EU Withdrawal Bill, meandering slowly through the Lords, contains a provision which virtually no-one noticed until a few weeks ago. In an apparently […]

Whatever else you can say about an assassination attempt with a powerful Russian nerve agent on its soil, it has certainly told Britain who its friends are. The US, the power the Brexiteers and their press supporters told us repeatedly would be our firmest ally after Brexit (party, and curiously, because Donald Trump’s mother liked […]

Michael Gove thinks he landed a blow on the EU over banning plastic straws. But, as JANE MERRICK​ discovers, environmental groups remain concerned about Brexit The wild-eyed optimism from Theresa May’s government over how Britain would fare post-Brexit has faded, replaced by something a little closer to reality. A year ago, Brexit secretary David Davis […]

Almost no one in Gibraltar wanted Brexit. Now, will the territory be sold out by British ministers desperate for a deal with the EU? HARRY RIDGEWELL goes there to find out As soon as you walk out of Gibraltar International Airport and turn onto Winston Churchill Avenue past the red pillar post boxes it’s obvious […]

Gibraltarians voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU. And yet, Lib Dem leader VINCE CABLE argues in an exclusive article, they face the hardest Brexit of all Theresa May has been seriously hampered by her own Brexit negotiations with her misconceived and premature red lines. There was no need to rule out staying in the […]

The government has been accused of a “total betrayal” of EU nationals living in Britain who believed their future status had been secured post-Brexit. Former ambassador Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, who wrote Article 50 which triggered the formal withdrawal process, warned that the exodus of essential workers would only speed up. The independent crossbencher made […]

“A price worth paying” is the Brexiteers’ answer to everything. But, says MITCH BENN, they’ve yet to specify what it’s worth paying for I had a stand-up gig in Norwich the other night, and I’ll be honest, I wasn’t especially looking forward to it. It’s not that there’s anything objectionable about the comedy club in […]

The UK economy will benefit from sticking as closely as possible to European Union rules after Brexit, a senior MEP said after talks with Theresa May. Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator, said he wanted the UK to sign an association agreement with the EU to cover its relationship after leaving the bloc. Meanwhile, […]

Ousted Ukip leader Henry Bolton today attempted to channel Disraeli as he launched a new political party. Mr Bolton, unceremoniously axed from the Ukip leadership last month following a row over racist texts sent by his girlfriend, said OneNation would serve “a need for a truly professional political party that believes in Britain, that preserves […]

Donald Trump had Britain’s best interests at heart, said the Brexiteers. As he now threatens the world with a trade war, they’re being remarkably quiet One of the most curious assertions of the Brexiteers was that America, and, more specifically, Donald Trump, had Britain’s back. That, despite wildly diverging priorities and interests, Uncle Sam would […]

Patients’ lives could be put at risk after Brexit unless there is progress on continued research co-operation with the European Union, Labour is warning. Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth will say it is “utterly unacceptable” for there to be uncertainty about the arrangements after Brexit. He will also promise that Labour would ensure medics and […]