The UK leaving the European Union was “an act of self-annihilation”, former deputy prime minister has said. / The former deputy prime minister has urged the pro-European movement in the UK to show “vision”.

“Car crash!” exclaimed managing director Andrew Varga, whose Brexit progress I have been following since the referendum. News of the latest Brexit U-turn landed on him on Tuesday out of the blue. All his years of preparation for a new UK product safety mark, all his thousands of pounds wasted, all the uncountable hours and effort were rendered pointless, at a stroke.

The leaders of our political parties cannot go on hiding from the damage to our economy, our reputation in the world and the frustration of our younger generation, writes Lord Michael Heseltine.

Lord Heseltine said it is time to stop ‘hiding from the damage’ caused by Brexit. / Lord Heseltine has called for Britain to “recreate our position at the centre of Europe” after the failure of Brexit.

The former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister had some brutally frank comments on why the economy has struggled in recent years.

Piers Morgan Uncensored hosted by Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott takes a dramatic turn as the pair are joined by former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Michael Heseltine to debate whether the Government should accept that Brexit has failed.

Tory peer schools Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshot on Talk TV with the help of some newspaper cuttings.

The Brexit-backing media has turned on the split with the EU, culminating in this entertaining exchange between Heseltine and Tice.

I look back to 1973 as the post-war year when Britain accepted the loss of its empire and chose a new European destiny.

"Public opinion has already moved", the former deputy prime minister said.

Michael Heseltine says Brexit will be ’high on the agenda’ if Liz Truss loses general election.

Michael Heseltine says Brexit will be ’high on the agenda’ if Liz Truss loses general election. / The Tories will never win back younger voters as an anti-Europe and populist party, former cabinet ministers have warned – as they called for trade links with EU to be rebuilt.

When the most anti-EU newspapers are pointing to the policy’s inevitable failures, it’s time our government admitted the truth.

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.

Two years since Britain left the EU, Brexit is still very much at the top of the news agenda with lorry queues lengthening at Dover as exporting firms struggle with red tape.

The Tory peer thinks public "anger" could trigger another vote on the UK's membership in the EU.

Boris Johnson’s removal from Downing Street would be an opportunity to reconsider Brexit, Conservative grandee Michael Heseltine has said.

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

Michael Heseltine tells an audience in Nottingham tonight that they should they should never give up trying restore Britain's position in the European corridors of power...and says it's the young generation who will push for a reversal of Brexit.

Former deputy prime minister says we ‘must restore Britain’s position in the corridors of European power’.

Across the world, there is incomprehension at what we have done to ourselves.

Five years on from the Brexit referendum people are still more likely to define themselves by which side they backed in 2016 rather than their party political allegiances, according to a Yorkshire academic.

The personal and human relationships between us and our continental neighbours are priceless, writes Michael Heseltine, yet every abusive headline echoes across the channel.

Tory grandee Lord Heseltine has called for pro-Europeans to “fight back” and battle to rejoin the EU.