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Leaving the EU confronts my former colleagues with a greater challenge than Whitehall has faced for generations.
June Mummery said EU rules would still apply to Britain but that it would have no say.
'Get Brexit done is the biggest delusion of all' - Michael Heseltine launches scathing attack on Boris Johnson.
The general election will be the point of no return for the UK in the current phase of its decline, and the US is heading in the same direction.
Former Tory grandee accuses Boris Johnson of pursuing an ‘utterly disastrous’ Brexit policy.
The prime minister’s snappy, inane slogan is the prelude to inevitable lies, betrayal and duplicity.
Chief among these is Britain, who in leaving the European Union, has placed a disproportionate emphasis on the potential benefits arising from a new trade deal with the US.
Dutch MP Anne Mulder - Boris Johnson has “a credibility issue" and warns that “the UK is underestimating" the EU
07/10/2019
“He’s a little bit of an opportunistic person.”
Industry body says tariffs put jobs at risk but shares in European drinks makers rise.
There is far too much at stake to take any pleasure in this bizarre political reversal.
Trump or Europe? New U.K. leader Boris Johnson to sample post-Brexit reality at G7 summit
22/08/2019
Boris Johnson is about to feel the pinch of Brexit Britain’s new global status: squeezed on one side by Europeans in no mood to yield, and on the other by a United States driving a hard bargain for its economic support.
Liberal Democrat and Labour MEPs have taken up committee jobs in ‘huge vote of confidence’.
If we are to have any influence over issues such as the climate crisis, we must reach out to Brussels – not turn our backs.
Trump’s national security adviser wants the UK to be beholden to the US for its daily bread, making the country a timid American outpost.
'Self-damaging gesture': Boris Johnson plans to pull UK officials from EU meetings ahead of Brexit deadline
13/08/2019
'We're going to be depriving ourselves of a lot of information that we will be spending the next few years trying to find out by other means'
Critics say No 10 move to quit bloc’s institutional structures leaves UK blindsided. / British diplomats will pull out from the EU’s institutional structures of power in Brussels within days, under plans being drawn up by Downing Street.
To make Brexit happen, Boris needs to work with the Eurocrats he’s insulted. Fat chance they’ll help him now
08/08/2019
As our prime minister and the no-deal zealots of his cabinet revel in Brexit brinkmanship it is worth recalling the legal realities of what threatens to be our post Halloween world.
The hostility shown to the EU contrasts with the fawning attitude towards the US and fails to recognise the disparity in economic power.
So much for the Special Relationship… In an unprecedented week in which PM-to-be Boris Johnson effectively fired Britain’s ambassador to the USA to placate a bullying Donald Trump, we look into Britain’s humiliating future as a taker of orders from bigger international players.
Brexit has sent 'not as important' Britain into decades of decline, Irish PM Varadkar says
12/07/2019
Leo Varadkar says UK has struggled to accept its is less important than it once was.
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is eroding its own influence in the world without hurting the bloc’s ability to wield global power, according to the EU’s top diplomat.
The contest to succeed Theresa May shows that British illusions persist.
Chagos Islands: UN officially demands Britain and US withdraw from Indian Ocean archipelago. / General assembly expected to vote in favour of UK ceding control of Indian Ocean archipelago – site of major US airbase – to Mauritius