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It has not even been five months since the end of the Brexit transition period and there have been armed patrol vessels in the Channel.
European leaders made their feelings about the Northern Ireland protocol known to a PM desperate to score a PR victory.
Peter Ricketts, former British ambassador to France, tells of the difficulties faced by businesses and the 'extra red tape' as well as travel changes.
Row over status of João Vale de Almeida has 'chilled' relationship between London and Brussels.
Sir Ivan Rogers condemns 'diplomatic amateurism' that will lead to hugely damaging trade deal – or a crash-out Brexit in a year. / Boris Johnson is deceiving voters by claiming he will “get Brexit done” quickly and hiding the “biggest crisis” yet to come, a former ambassador to the EU is warning.
French president responds to ‘jury’s out’ comments by Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss about key ally.
PM urged to recognise pursuit of no-deal Brexit would be regarded as serious error by US.
Dominic Raab says he wants to turn page on Brexit saga and treat EU with respect it deserves.
Arkady Rzegocki insisted Polish citizens can now make a good living in their home country and don't need to live in Britain.
The corruption of constitutional order can happen very quickly and reversing it can take a very long time and at huge cost.
Foreign affairs chief raises concerns over UK refusal to grant EU mission full diplomatic status.
After a February meeting between U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and 19 Japanese business chiefs, Tokyo’s ambassador to Britain warned what might happen if Brexit took an unfavorable turn for foreign investors.
Event delayed after UK refuses to grant EU ambassador same privileges as other diplomats.
Comments made by the Sir Kim Darroch, the British Ambassador to the US, on the Trump administration have been leaked to pro-Brexit journalist Isabel Oakshott, with key Brexiteers exploiting them to attack the civil service and diplomatic corps and call for the removal of non-Brexit-supporting civil servants.
Boris Johnson’s claims he will get Brexit done are “diplomatic amateurism” and his deal will be even harder to achieve than Theresa May’s, a former ambassador to the EU has warned.
Ivan Rogers says plan by ‘dishonest’ government to override Northern Ireland protocol may cause trade war.
'The British ambassador told me — and I loved it — that every time the British military is meeting with the American military, the Americans are talking about the French' / British influence in Washington DC has “vanished” following Brexit, the outgoing French ambassador to the US has said.
Trade has plummeted and red tape has blocked our borders. Is that what ‘protecting our sovereignty’ meant?
'The French in the UK had a sense of being abandoned. They said, ‘yesterday we were Londoners and today we are foreigners’
The UK may no longer be an EU member but, as the current health crisis shows, cooperation continues to be essential.
Foreign Office says EU should not be treated as nation state, despite 142 countries granting bloc this status.
Richard Corbett, former Labour MEP, linguist, author and fluent and well-informed speaker will explain the background to Boris Johnson's Brexit deal and discuss the fallout. There are numerous consequences of Brexit which are not receiving sufficient publicity. Leaving the EU came at a huge cost to the UK economically, culturally and in terms of our standing in the world.
Ex-ambassadors and high commissioners say UK is weakened by ‘fiasco’. / More than 40 former British ambassadors and high commissioners have written to Theresa May warning her that Brexit has turned into a “national crisis”...
João Vale de Almeida’s main task will be ensuring Britain sticks to withdrawal agreement.
Diplomatic cables reveal the monarch also appeared to back the creation of a single market. / The Queen confided to the German ambassador that she believed the future of Britain lay in Europe, newly released diplomatic cables from 1988 have shown.