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Watch Ed Miliband attack Boris Johnson as he accuses PM of trying to ‘get Brexit undone’ [2 mins]
14/09/2020
Ed Miliband accused Boris Johnson of seeking to "get Brexit undone" during a widely-praised speech against the controversial UK Internal Market Bill.
European commission chief responds to claims that No 10 plans to renege on withdrawal agreement
Video resurfaces of Iain Duncan Smith trying to stop MPs scrutinising Brexit agreement he now wants rewritten
05/08/2020
Footage has resurfaced of a Tory Brexiteer praising Boris Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement bill and trying to prevent MPs from scrutinising the document - days after calling for it to be rewritten.
Taoiseach wants to keep a guarantee there will be no return to hard borders. / Leo Varadkar has said that removing the border backstop would be as bad for Ireland as a no-deal Brexit.
Under cover of Brexit - Chris Grey
03/07/2020
The most important Brexit event of the week came and went with relatively little fanfare, yet it marks a significant moment.
Jonathan Jones resigns after plans emerge to alter legally binding Northern Ireland protocol
A European Union grandee today said the UK could be refused a Brexit extension if Theresa May fails to get agreement in the Commons.
Leo Varadkar says government must submit plans in writing before EU summit in October.
The UK position 14 months ago is in sharp contrast to the flat rejection of an EU office in Belfast under Boris Johnson's government.
New border checks in Kent and elsewhere reverse 47 years of removal of trade barriers.
Concerns raised after reports negotiating team told to devise plans to ‘get around’ protocol in withdrawal agreement.
UK refuses to scrap plan for treaty breach
11/09/2020
The European Union has told Britain it should urgently scrap a plan to break their divorce treaty, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government refused and pressed ahead with a draft law that could sink four years of Brexit talks.
Government to enrage Brussels by overwriting Brexit withdrawal agreement
Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald said suspending the Northern Ireland Protocol could endanger the entire withdrawal agreement.
UK must ‘immediately’ start building new customs posts for Northern Ireland trade checks, EU says
01/05/2020
UK has made little progress on new infrastructure needed for checks Boris Johnson signed up to.
Britain is being led to a no-deal Brexit by a political elite “which has great difficulties discerning and telling the truth”, the UK’s former ambassador to the EU has said, in a withering assessment of the Conservative candidates vying to be prime minister.
Twenty-five committees and five study groups to cover almost every conceivable area of interest between the EU and UK have still not been established.
Simon Coveney says new legislation will break international law and damage relations between UK and EU.
Environment secretary says talks in “very difficult position” and a critical 24 hours lie ahead.
UK rejected initial request from Brussels during negotiations on post-Brexit Irish border controls.
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.