Britain faces a tough challenge to retain global influence after its departure from the EU under a prime minister who has a well-known reputation for “lying”, France’s former ambassador to the UK told Agence France-Presse (AFP) in an interview.
A campaign of fake news about the EU has gone viral. We’re only vulnerable to this because of 40 years of weak leadership.
Jean-Claude Juncker says it was a 'mistake' for EU to stay silent during Brexit referendum 'lies'
07/05/2019
The president of the EU commission has said he regrets not intervening in the UK’s Brexit referendum to correct “lies” about the bloc during the campaign.
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.
One of the UK’s leading EU law experts criticizes the referendum debate’s 'dishonesty on an industrial scale', as he considers the claims and counter claims from each side.
Revealed: How Leave.EU faked migrant footage
16/04/2019
An investigation by Channel 4 News also reveals how Arron Banks’ pro-Brexit group appears to have staged photos of migrants attacking women in London.
The French president said the vote was sold by "anger mongers backed by fake news" as UK faces leaving the EU in less than a month.
Theresa May has been accused of failing to be honest with the public about Brexit by the UK’s former ambassador to the European Union, who warned that “fantasies and delusions on all sides” risk plunging the UK into a democratic crisis.
Boris Johnson: The most infamous lies and untruths by the Conservative leadership candidate
24/04/2019
Prominent Tory's falsehoods range from incorrect 14th century history to the EU banana police. / Boris Johnson’s flirtation with dishonesty has cost him at least three jobs and damaged his standing with the people of Liverpool and London.
Politicians have always chosen their words carefully. But in Britain, the gap between language and reality is widening
A decision to summon the Tory leadership frontrunner to court over his £350m Brexit claims was quashed last month.
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.
Jeremy Hunt's new Brexit lies are playing Bannon's game, and driving British politics into the murky shadows
16/04/2019
The foreign secretary flew at our expense to lie to young students in Japan, in order to appeal to old Tories at home.
The 48% of Britons who voted Remain in the EU exit referendum last year need to be taken into account in the negotiation process which just got underway, said Polish MEP Danuta Hübner, the powerful chair of the European Parliament’s constitutional affairs committee.
Senior UK MEP Claude Moraes has accused top British politicians of “lying” to the public about contingency plans for leaving the EU without a deal.
John Major on Brexit
05/06/2016
John Major demolishes the “dishonest” Leave Campaign for "misleading the public".
Theresa May will have told MPs a 'straight-up lie' if she cancels this week's crunch Brexit votes, says Yvette Cooper
11/03/2019
'She gave me her word, she gave parliament her word – I don’t believe the prime minister would straight-up lie on something so important as this'
New polling shows 62% want another referendum on Britain's membership of the EU at some point with 56% saying they would now vote to rejoin.
Shadow foreign secretary tells HuffPost UK the US president will want Boris Johnson to “step up” and solve row over Northern Ireland.
European Commission president says ‘bulls***’ was responsible for Brexit.