'No one died for Brexit': Former Ukraine president asks Boris Johnson to 'please' avoid comparison [3 mins]
23/03/2022
Ukraine's former president Petro Poroshenko has asked Boris Johnson to "please" not compare the UK's Brexit vote to his country's fight against Russia - after the Prime Minister appeared to do so over the weekend.
'Robbie Gibb asked me this question a while ago. I can’t say what he doesn’t know, but I can break down his article' - Steve Analyst
04/05/2020
1. Robbie Gibb asked me this question a while ago. I can’t say what he doesn’t know, but I can break down his article. / 2. I’m going to go through the article line by line to reiterate my original point, starting with the suggestion that our position is “all laid out” in the Conservative Manifesto.
Andrew Marr has hit out at Boris Johnson for his "ludicrous and offensive" comparison between Ukraine and Brexit, and said it was a calculated comment to "get back to talking about Brexit" in anticipation of upcoming local elections.
As UK public feeling shifts back to a pro-European stance, is it time to positively charge the nature of the conversation?
The moving vans have already started arriving at Downing Street, as Britain’s Conservative Party prepares to evict Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared the plight of Ukraine with the Brexit vote, saying people's instincts are "to choose freedom every time".
Boris Johnson faces backlash for comparing Ukrainian resistance to Russia invasion to UK voting for Brexit
19/03/2022
The Prime Minister also compared Ukraine’s strength to British people’s willingness to voluntarily get vaccinated against Covid-19.
oris Johnson on Monday faced fresh calls to withdraw remarks which compared the UK’s vote for Brexit with Ukraine’s battle for freedom against Russia.
Boris Johnson likens Ukrainians' fight to British people voting for Brexit – video [2 mins]
19/03/2022
Speaking at the Conservative party spring conference in Blackpool, the prime minister compared the struggle of the Ukrainian people for freedom to the instincts of Britons who voted for Brexit.
Boris Johnson makes U-turn as PM ‘totally agrees’ Brexit and Ukrainian war are not the same
25/03/2022
The Prime Minister has come under criticism for comments where he appeared to compare the UK voting to leave the EU, and the Ukrainian fight against Russia.
Comedian MITCH BENN shares some other events that are, when you think about it, also just like Brexit...
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was attacked by political opponents past and present after comparing the Ukrainian army’s battle to fend off Russia with the Brexit campaign.
Boris Johnson refuses to retract claim that Ukraine’s fight against Russia is like Brexit vote
22/03/2022
Any prospect of prime minister being invited to this week’s EU summit appears to have vanished – but Joe Biden will be there.
Boris Johnson slammed for 'grotesque' comparison between Brexit and Ukraine conflict at party conference
18/03/2022
In most instances, Brexit can prove itself to be quite a divisive subject, but when Boris Johnson decided to compare the 2016 vote to leave the European Union to the Ukrainians’ fight against the Russian invasion, it seems both leavers and remainers were united in calling out how “offensive” the comparison was.
At the very time when government wants to be less dependent on food imports, it’s becoming impossible for some farmers to survive.
Brexit and Government hostility combine to make ‘bizarre and cruel’ system for Ukraine refugees, lawyer says
10/03/2022
Leading human rights barrister Usha Sood has condemned hostility to immigrants and Home Office bureaucracy for failing the most vulnerable victims of the Russian invasion.
A tense Brexit debate happened on TalkTV yesterday when a journalist said food shortages weren't impacting war torn Ukraine.
David Cameron has said Britain needs closer ties with the European Union, prompting fears the Brexit debate could be ‘reignited’. / The Foreign Secretary said the bloc is a ‘friend, a neighbour and partner’ and praised cooperation between the EU and the UK in supporting Ukraine.
Differences meant rival diplomats were discouraged from talking to one another.
Polish charity says three vans were blocked from getting on ferry because they didn’t have required paperwork.
In our series looking at life after Brexit, the European parliament’s former negotiator Guy Verhofstadt argues that Britain exchanged a Jaguar for a Ford Fiesta in the 2016 referendum.
Six years post-Brexit, Britain remains haunted by the EU in a neurosis that is not reciprocated in Brussels or other capitals.
The Northern Ireland protocol row shows the similarities between two former imperial powers intent on regaining lost glory.
Ministers are portraying themselves as victims of a deal they created for Northern Ireland. A classic blame-shifting strategy.