Brexit

MICHAEL WHITE on a Tory party as bitterly divided over Europe as they ever were Let’s sum up the week. Boris and Michael are in love again, but David is cross with both of them for sending an interfering ‘Orwellian’ love letter to Theresa about Philip’s ‘insufficient energy’ in wooing the fair maid, Brexit. Theresa […]

Noel Gallagher was today branded a “lad” by Nigel Farage after telling Brexit opponents to “f***ing get over it”. The former Oasis guitarist and songwriter said that, although he did not vote in the EU referendum and was himself a Remainer, there had been too much ‘noise’ in the aftermath. The comments, from a man […]

STEVE ANGLESEY counts down the worst Brexiteers of the week 10 BILL ETHERIDGE ‘I have been extremely naïve,’ said West Midlands MEP and failed UKIP leadership candidate Etheridge back in 2015, after he had repeated Enoch Powell’s warning that multiculturalism would lead to ‘rivers of blood’. Happily Bill is a changed man and now acts […]

RICHARD PORRITT with the week’s big stories All hail to the mutineers! The Daily Telegraph pulled off a remarkable feat this week by outraging both Remainers and Leavers with their bonkers splash labelling Tory Brexit rebels ‘mutineers’. Even Brexit minister Steve Baker took a shot at the Conservative Party’s in-house newsletter, saying ‘colleagues have sincere […]

Tim Martin, boss of the Wetherspoon pub chain, is pestering drinkers with his pro-Brexit beer mats. ANTHONY CLAVANE wonders whether his customers might find it too much to swallow

What do the Hard Brexiteers think of ‘taking back control’ only to have the US wade into the UK’s trading standards? ANGELA JAMESON investigates whether chlorinated chicken is back on the menu This summer Liam Fox turned many people’s stomachs when he suggested the UK should be open to accepting poultry that is washed in […]

As the Brexit Bill continues its chaotic progress through the Commons, pro-European peer HUGH DYKES warns that the Lords are ready to take up the fight when it reaches them For the UK – a country with a proud tradition of proper governance alongside lively party politics – the progress, or otherwise, of the infamous […]

Research by the British Election Study suggests the ethnic minority vote was crucial in the EU referendum. Only a third voted Leave, but those voters could well have clinched it for Brexit. Before that momentous June day, I went round the country to meet black, Asian, Arab, Chinese and various other non-indigenous Brits. In October […]

The playwright, author and critic on the fight against change The American journalist and author, Thomas L. Friedman, has given the times we live in a name: the Age of Acceleration. Change has come and is coming so quickly that it compares to looking out of the window of a jet in flight. We cannot […]

Editor-at-large ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on why leaving the EU is so damaging to the health service Another day, due to end with another anti-Brexit speech to another anti-Brexit meeting, but something truly upsetting happened en route to delay my arrival. Given that one of my exhortations to the meeting when I made it was that those […]

Article 50, which triggers Britain’s exit from the EU, can be reversed, according to the man who wrote it. Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, a former EU ambassador, said Brexit could be reversed right up to the last minute, despite Theresa May today announcing a withdrawal date and time would be on the bill going before […]

MICHAEL WHITE on another succession of crises as the UK slips yet further in the world power stakes Watching Gavin Williamson, untested in any ministerial office let alone a military one, taking over at the Ministry of Defence from Sir Michael Fallon reminded me of the spectacle a few weeks ago which saw Britain’s latest […]

RICHARD PORRITT rounds up the losers and losers (because there are no winners) of another crazy seven days on Planet Brexit 10 Peter Lundgren MEP Swedish right-winger Lundgren has claimed this week that warnings about Britain being isolated and poor after Brexit are ‘bulls**t’. Phew. This from a man who represents a party launched by […]

RICHARD PORRITT with the week’s big stories ‘Can she last until Christmas?’ That is the question we pose on the front page of this week’s paper… and it’s a question a Number 10 insider answered with a sigh moments after her doomed conference speech last month. ‘Well,’ he continued amid the shock of the worse […]

A new international study shows how narcissism and an unrealistic belief in national greatness led to the successes of Donald Trump and Brexit. SCOTT OLIVER reports Exactly a year before her cough-infested car crash address of the Tory party conference, our erstwhile Remainer Prime Minister Theresa May hopped aboard the populist bandwagon by announcing: ‘If […]

The government has announced there will be a delay of “no more than three weeks” in publishing its secret papers on the economic impact of Brexit. Brexit minister Steve Baker told the Commons today that the Government would need time to release the studies despite being ordered by Speaker John Bercow to publish them immediately. […]

Andy Wigmore’s attempt at ‘sarcasm’ on Vote Leave’s use of bots was a characteristic piece of mischief from this sharpshooting Brexiteer, say RACHEL DAVIS and RICHARD PORRITT Sharp-shooter, bad boy of Brexit and master of the dark arts of political communication – Andy Wigmore is either a ‘good laugh’ or a ‘dangerous individual’ depending who […]

The rush to Brexit could have been halted, argues AC GRAYLING. But instead of a sober, rational reaction to the Brexit vote politicians were caught in a flap In the early hours of June 24, 2016 the broadcaster David Dimbleby, watching the results coming in from the EU referendum, said when the percentages of votes […]

Our editor-at-large ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on trying not to get too shouty ‘Try not to get too shouty,’ advised Peter Mandelson when I mentioned I was doing a television debate with John Redwood. Peter knows me too well. Anyone who saw me up against the Vulcan, either on Good Morning Britain, or a few days later […]

Chris Heaton-Harris’ clumsy if sinister attempt to find out about the teaching of Brexit at universities was almost universally condemned. Almost. As LIZ GERARD reports, for some of Fleet Street it was a perfect opportunity to send a message – dissent will not be tolerated Business leaders, bank chiefs, lawyers, luvvies, the BBC, scientists, diplomats, […]

Steve Anglesey counts down the worst Brexiteers of the week 10 Arron Banks If his lucrative dog-whistle business should ever go wrong, Leave.EU backer Banks really should consider a career as a psychic. Just after 9am on October 30 he was crowing on Twitter that the ‘Russian stuff out of the US against Trump… is […]

MICHAEL WHITE on a Westminster consumed with scandal – and dodging the truth on Brexit A businessman just back from his first visit to Singapore in 10 years marvels at the pace of change and the optimism permeating much of South and East Asia. ‘Mind you, an average growth rate over 6% for the last […]

The Governor may not have wanted Brexit but it has dominated his years at the Bank of England, says ANGELA JAMESON. And a quick fix is beyond his powers March 2019 and the Brexit deadline looms ever nearer. In the City, another 2019 countdown is also underway. For June 2019 is when the current Bank […]

RICHARD PORRITT with this week’s big stories A Brexit stalemate, no money in the coffers and polls which have a hard leftie as favourite to win the next election – the news is not good for poor Theresa May. And now a raft of old fashioned sex scandals is set to rock her government as […]

The true impact of Brexit is starting to dawn on Britain. MARC BETTS reports on the latest survey that highlights the nation’s burgeoning panic Fears over the future of the NHS have spiked since the Brexit vote. Open Britain and the European Movement asked voters a series of questions about their thoughts on key issues […]

Labour is making a fresh attempt to force the Government to hand over to MPs its assessments of the likely impact of Brexit on key industrial sectors. Brexit secretary David Davis this week confirmed 58 studies have been carried out in sectors covering 88% of the UK economy, but has so far resisted intense pressure […]

Going trick-or-treating tonight? Download and print our Monsters of Brexit masks and dress as something truly terrifying If you’re out knocking doors for Halloween tonight, why not go as the ultimate trick – Brexit? The New European has created four masks you can download and print, each featuring a Brexit villain. Simply cut them out, […]

Few MPs have banged the drum against Brexit more consistently than David Lammy. He tells EMMA JONES why there is still so much to fight for When I meet David Lammy in his office in Westminster he has just delivered a letter to David Davis, signed by more than 120 politicians, demanding he publish his […]

Only the really unscrupulous or bankrupt shirk from their responsibilities over pensions, says former pensions minister ROS ALTMANN. Brexit should not excuse such bad behaviour Brexit negotiations are stuck over the issue of our so-called ‘divorce bill’. One of the sticking points relates to past pension promises. David Davis has suggested that demands for paying […]

The ‘morality police’ of Brexit are closing down debate, says YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN. We must not let them What? We can’t object to Brexit? Can’t even scream as the nation is propelled headlong into a lightless chasm? The rules have apparently changed. All Brits are expected to fall in line, to commit absolutely to the referendum […]

The playwright, author and critic on Brexit’s false sense of English patriotism There is still a Leave demographic, slowly shrinking, but still resilient. Many ask why this is, even in the face of another possibly fatal intrusion of reality threatening that coup d’état against reason known as Brexit. As anyone really paying attention knows, the […]

MICHAEL WHITE on a pitied prime minister whose weakness may turn into a negotiating strength Jeremy Corbyn has come a long way at the Commons dispatch box since his first fumbling sessions of Prime Minister’s question time. And when he quoted Liam Fox back at Theresa May after her latest statement on the Brexit negotiations […]