“It’s Brexit” First Minister For Wales Exposes the Truth About Why Port Talbot Steelworks Closed [4 mins]
20/01/2024
The former First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones rejects claims from right-wing politicians and commentators that the closure of the steelworks is down to net-zero policies and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Brexit and the Conservative government who he says have done nothing to meaningfully save British steel since the referendum in 2016.
‘We’re not there yet’ says Stena Line as Welsh ports continue to deal with Brexit aftermath
11/01/2022
Stena Line, the owners of two Welsh Ports, have said that more work needs to be done to iron out “major issues” following Brexit.
“Only a total rejection of Brexit lies can fix broken Westminster politics,” Plaid Cymru Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts MP will today say in a keynote speech at the party’s annual conference.
Ellie Newis reviews two of the flagship free trade agreements that were supposed to reignite the UK economy.
Anglesey voted by 50.9% for Brexit but the island’s councillors have been warned that the vote could result in choppy waters ahead including cuts to public services.
A prominent Irish politician has said there is “more to come” amid Wales being increasingly bypassed by Irish-French sea connections.
There has been a call for vets from abroad to apply for jobs in Wales after the numbers available to carry out the key role slumped after Brexit.
It is easier for the EU to import lamb from New Zealand than from Wales because of Brexit, MPs have been told.
Plaid Cymru has expressed serious concerns over the potential impact of the planned application of full Brexit border checks from the autumn.
FUW President Glyn Roberts has described Brexit as a “mess” and says the exit from the EU is one of the factors responsible for the hardships now being faced by farmers across Wales.
‘Brexit has devoured its own children’ says Welsh politics professor after Liz Truss resignation
20/10/2022
A Welsh politics professor has said that “Brexit has devoured its own children” after the Conservative party lost four Prime Ministers since the vote in 2016.
The decision by an automotive business to close its site due to uncertainty surrounding Brexit was described as the “the tremor that will lead to the Brexit earthquake” in the Welsh Assembly today.
‘An outward-looking nation’: Wales unveils Brexit-busting international exchange programme to replace Erasmus+
02/02/2022
Wales’ Education Minister has unveiled a new international exchange programme for Wales, to replace the Erasmus+ programme which the UK Government decided to leave after Brexit.
A Tory website has published an article calling for the abolition of the Senedd because the party can’t win elections in Wales.
More than £1bn of EU structural funds have been invested in schemes across Wales, Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford today confirmed.
Wrexham Lager can’t deliver to the Republic of Ireland because of Brexit, the firm has announced.
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Wales voted for Brexit by the same margin as the UK overall, 52 to 48 per cent, in sharp contrast to Northern Ireland and Scotland. / There is evidence that disproportionate support for Leave among the 21 per cent of Welsh voters who were born in England tipped the vote for Leave in Wales.
Who really owns UK fishing quotas?
07/12/2020
Fishing has been one of the key sticking points in talks over a future UK/EU trade deal.
Whether there is a Brexit deal or not, the Scottish and UK governments are heading into another constitutional standoff with legislation to set up an "internal market" passing through Westminster. What is the latest row all about?
First minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, and Scotland's deputy first minister, Shona Robinson, will be among the Celtic leaders in attendance at the first meeting of its kind.
Westminster on collision course with Edinburgh and Cardiff over plans for repatriation of powers after Brexit
16/07/2020
Proposals denounced as 'power grab' by Scottish National Party.
Coles, Da Mhile, In the Welsh Wind and Penderyn distilleries awarded label in scheme brought in to replace EU version.
Many cockles and mussels producers in Wales have been told they cannot continue exporting to the EU because the water quality is not good enough.
The Welsh seafood industry needs urgent help to survive Brexit disruption at ports, the environment minister has warned.