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This is my last Brexit Briefing. / Because it is the last it is longer than usual. A long goodbye if you will. Over the past 5 years I have written 130 of them, following the twists and turns of the Brexit saga, as various UK actors came and went upon the stage, generally full of sound and fury, but often signifying little.
Creation of body to protect UK firms from unfair global trade practices is behind schedule.
The trade secretary said delayng Brexit would be worse than no deal. The behaviour of big companies shows they think otherwise.
People who should know better keep talking about the UK becoming a leader in the World Trade Organization. What exactly does this mean and what are the chances?
Shortages in the labour market, along with the vacancies in the health service, hospitality industry and agriculture, are the living evidence of this self-inflicted act
Labour has tabled a cross-party motion to try to stop a future prime minister pushing through a no-deal Brexit against the wishes of MPs.
'There’s been no argument about food safety on chlorine-washed chicken – it’s been an argument about animal welfare'. / The UK could accept chlorinated chicken in a post-Brexit trade deal with the US without cutting food standards, Liam Fox has claimed.
Deals containing clauses that threaten human rights are being debated in parliament – they must be defeated.
Despite calls to 'take back control' the economic reality is that tariffs will be determined by the 'bound rates' that the UK already has in place under the WTO and, ultimately, no tariff regime will make up for loss of access to the EU market
The government has been accused of breaking its promises after it emerged that key trade deals would not be ready by Brexit day in a no-deal scenario.
'We can’t make a trade deal with the UK,' says US president.
Arch Brexiteer Daniel Hannan tried to tweet about EU tariffs on wine, but ended up proving we probably do need experts after all.
Prime minister launches new plan to win backing for her deal as she prepares to update MPs on way forward
Minister previously said "we are not going to see reductions in our standards" after Brexit.
Fox hopes for increased trade with far flung nations post-Brexit—but there’s a problem with his strategy.
But minister says measures would only be implemented if Britain was on course to crash out of EU.
The UK won't be able to roll over an EU trade deal with Japan in time for a no-deal Brexit, Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said.
In the last six months, Liam Fox has been on a whistle-stop tour of authoritarian regimes.
Senior MPs including Liam Fox, Andrea Leadsom and Jacob Rees-Mogg have used their expenses to fund a 'party within a party'. / Despite expenses rules stating that MPs cannot claim for research or work “done for, or on behalf of, a political party”, the European Research Group has received over a quarter of a million pounds from MPs who claimed the public cash through their official expenses.
Richard Porritt, Steve Anglesey and Geri Scott are back for another round of Brexit madness. The team ask 'should Sir Keir quit in protest?' and count Liam Fox's successful trade deals ... on one hand. And Geri predicts the future.
There is an air of desperation in attacks from those on the right and their supporters in the press. They fear if Johnson falls, the Brexit deception will crumble too.
Organisation which drove UK to a hard Brexit made up of ‘climate change deniers’ and ‘Trump sympathisers’, new book is told.
Trade talks will go ahead despite reported dismay at language used by Liam Fox and Jeremy Hunt.
A transatlantic network of conservative think tanks accidentally published its secret plans to influence US-UK ... Documents outline plans to form an “unprecedented” coalition of hard-Brexit and libertarian think tanks, which will call for Britain to ditch strict EU safety standards – including rules on food and pharmaceuticals – in order to secure a sweeping US-UK trade deal.