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.
How balanced was the debate over Brexit?
13/07/2020
In the debate over Brexit, accusations of an anti-Brexit or pro-Brexit bias by the media have been a recurring feature.
This week, the practical realities of what Brexit is going to mean came into central focus for perhaps the first time, with a new government information campaign.
Michel Barnier schools Mark Francois on the Brexit deal he backed in the House of Commons
10/07/2020
Michel Barnier has schooled Brexiteer MP Mark Francois on the Withdrawal Agreement that he and his European Research Group (ERG) colleagues voted for, and told him that him there was no “added value” in leaving the EU.
Boris Johnson’s next Tory rebellion could be on Brexit as Eurosceptic MPs wake up to the true nature of withdrawal agreement
05/08/2020
Senior Brexiteers endorsed the Prime Minister’s deal but some have now turned against it and want to see it replaced.
Hardline European Research Group branded ‘a corruption of Conservatism’ by senior Tory MP
06/08/2020
Organisation which drove UK to a hard Brexit made up of ‘climate change deniers’ and ‘Trump sympathisers’, new book is told.
There are good reasons to believe latest move is partly theatre, but there are hefty issues at stake.
Bernard Jenkin says MPs only voted for bill because Johnson promised it could be rejected.
Minister admits changes to Brexit deal would break international law - Channel 4 News [15 mins]
08/09/2020
The Northern Ireland secretary admitted that the Government was intending to break international law - specifically the EU Withdrawal Agreement, which sets out how Britain and the EU would agree new rules on trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.
Government ignored legal advice over proposed withdrawal agreement changes.
The European Research Group says the Northern Ireland protocol "has to go" but Labour insists: "This was the deal they demanded".
The damaging economic fallout from Boris Johnson’s EU divorce deal has provoked unrest in the Leave camp, with hardline Tory Brexiteers calling on the prime minister to tear up arrangements for Northern Ireland which he negotiated and they backed in parliament.
Eurosceptic backbenchers disavowed a key part of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - which they backed - aimed at preventing a hard border on the island of Ireland.
Trade has plummeted and red tape has blocked our borders. Is that what ‘protecting our sovereignty’ meant?
Northern Ireland’s first minister has paid the price for believing the promises of the hard Brexiteers.
The six months since the end of the transition period have largely been a ‘tale of woe’ for Britain’s fishing industry, says National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisation
Ex-adviser to PM says flawed Brexit deal was way to ‘whack Corbyn’ and ‘of course’ government can break it.
A former British diplomat, who was Boris Johnson's Brexit counsellor in Washington, has spoken of her dismay and anger at his administration’s attitude to the Irish border question when he became Prime Minister in July 2019.
We may never know exactly what Conservative MP Chris Heaton-Harris intended to do with the information he tried to obtain on academics who teach about Brexit. But it certainly shouldn’t be treated as “just a polite request for information” as if this were some routine event.
Jacob Rees-Mogg says we should ignore an EU push for speed limiters in cars - but it has the potential to save more lives than seat belts.
We unionists who foresaw that Brexit would cause problems at the Northern Ireland border were ignored
14/05/2022
'I keep hearing my fellow unionists complaining that their anger over the existence of the Northern Ireland Protocol is not being recognised or taken seriously.'
Northern Ireland protocol: EU to begin legal action over UK plans to override Brexit deal
12/06/2022
Brussels is set to reveal details of action despite ministers’ insistence the the Northern Ireland protocol plans do not break international law.
It will spark outrage - but picking a fight over Brexit moves an embattled PM onto safer territory
12/06/2022
One senior Tory has told Sky News that planned legislation on the Northern Ireland Protocol is "clearly not in the national interest but is about appeasing the ERG".
With a potential trade war looming, Conservatives are stuck in an ever-more destructive disagreement over what Britain should look like outside the EU.