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No hint of contrition or constructiveness in article by Lord Frost and Brandon Lewis... just menace.
Foreign minister says UK should admit what it has signed up to.
Brexit inflames North’s identity politics
27/06/2021
Economic advantages of NI’s new trading arrangement overlooked by rejectionist rhetoric.
In a move rarely seen between allies, Washington issued London with a demarche: a formal diplomatic reprimand usually reserved for adversaries.
Molotov cocktails and barricades have returned to Northern Ireland. The conflict there is 4 centuries old. But Brexit is the new reason why the situation has reached the boiling point in what had been an era of peace.
Preserving post-Brexit trading rules for goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is "the only way" to avoid a hard border, warns the EU.
A united Ireland could emerge within the next 25 years given the "disaster" created by Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, a former British government cabinet minister has predicted.
Environment secretary says talks in “very difficult position” and a critical 24 hours lie ahead.
UK FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab has accused the EU of putting pressure on the Good Friday Agreement with its approach to the ongoing Brexit negotiations.
PM risks major confrontation with Joe Biden by persevering with internal market bill.
'We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit' - Joe Biden
16/09/2020
"We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit. Any trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period."
PM urged to recognise pursuit of no-deal Brexit would be regarded as serious error by US.
UK PM Boris Johnson had been wildly happy about his new EU exit deal; then he introduced a law undermining both it, and the last round of trade negotiations. Speaking with two former permanent secretaries of the UK’s EU exit department, Matt Ross asks whether Johnson is applying firm leverage – or deliberately sabotaging the trade talks.
SF MLA says changes to withdrawal deal would drive ‘coach and horses’ through Belfast Agreement.
Brexit Republic - The Revolver
18/09/2020
Mr Raab goes to Washington, Mr Miliband goes to town on Mr Johnson in another busy, busy Brexit week. Europe Editor Tony Connelly, London Correspondent Seán Whelan and Deputy Foreign Editor Colm Ó Mongáin look at the continuing external waves being made by the Internal Market Bill and go-slow negotiations.
‘Britain does not break treaties’: EU president quotes Thatcher as she tells Boris Johnson he cannot change Brexit deal
16/09/2020
Ursula von der Leyen says EU will ‘never backtrack’ on withdrawal agreement.
Boris Johnson must drop 'disturbing' Brexit plan or risk US trade deal, Congress members warn
16/09/2020
Remarks come as foreign secretary Dominic Raab visits Washington for meetings with senior US politicians.
MPs claim failure to implement a robust customs regime in Northern Ireland will lead to international criminals, including drug traffickers, making plans to target a soft border.
Special trade arrangements will apply from 1 January whether Johnson strikes deal or not.
EU negotiator signals future relationship negotiations are on course for acrimonious start.