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Anthony Robinson presents a panoramic view of the current travails defining a post-Brexit nation.
The commercial departments of Brexit-supporting newspapers know the damage being caused to the UK economy, and newspaper advertising revenues, by Brexit. Their editorial colleagues continue to support it anyway.
The 10 biggest lies of Brexit
21/06/2023
Seven years since the referendum, how have the “promises” made by the most prominent Brexiteers panned out? Here’s a rundown of the 10 most spectacular untruths.
UK still experiencing problems after three years of Brexit.
UNELECTED UK Government minister Malcolm Offord has insisted the Tories have not conned the public over Brexit.
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.
Liam Fox’s Brexit ‘prize’ is nothing more than a pipe dream that fails to address Britain’s long-standing productivity problem
11/02/2022
The recent report from Fox’s Global Britain Commission sets out Britain’s productivity problem but offers no answers to it.
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
Northern Ireland, food prices, the ease of a deal - it turns out that many of the claims made by those advocating Brexit were not quite true...
As part of our special edition looking at five years since the EU referendum, Alastair Campbell looks at the silence of the Leavers.
Brexit Briefing #130 – a final look at the UK still trying to have its cake and eat it - BEERG Brexit Blog
04/05/2021
This is my last Brexit Briefing. / Because it is the last it is longer than usual. A long goodbye if you will. Over the past 5 years I have written 130 of them, following the twists and turns of the Brexit saga, as various UK actors came and went upon the stage, generally full of sound and fury, but often signifying little.
Final bid to prevent huge new tariffs ruining African farmers amid allegations of UK ‘bullying’
05/12/2020
‘People in Ghana are very angry. They do not understand why Britain is acting like a bully’
Pascal Lamy, who was director general of the WTO, between 2005 and 2013, said there was a stark choice for the UK between 'minor' and 'great' trade relations with the country’s largest trading partner.
Hardline European Research Group branded ‘a corruption of Conservatism’ by senior Tory MP
06/08/2020
Organisation which drove UK to a hard Brexit made up of ‘climate change deniers’ and ‘Trump sympathisers’, new book is told.
Labour queries why MP used unsecured account for classified government business.
Nothing to see here - Chris Grey
19/06/2020
'The Brexiters have no more idea in private than they do in public about what they are doing. Predictions based upon their concealed intent project on to them a competence they simply don’t possess.'
Senior Tories insist Brexit deal would not scupper US trade agreement after shock Trump intervention
01/11/2019
'We can’t make a trade deal with the UK,' says US president.
An NHS sell-off, lower food standards and secretive corporate courts: the battles facing Britain's new trade secretary
26/07/2019
Boris Johnson’s new trade secretary will be tasked with negotiating as many new trade deals as possible. Here are some fault-lines expected to emerge over the coming months.
US says Brexit trade talks with Liam Fox cancelled amid mounting fury over leaked Trump memos
09/07/2019
Planned Brexit trade talks between Liam Fox and US Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross have been cancelled, amid escalating tensions following the release of UK diplomatic memos calling Donald Trump "incompetent", "inept", and "insecure".
Tory leadership hopeful is wrong to suggest UK could have tariff-free trade with the EU following a no-deal Brexit, says international body’s chief.
Canada Is Refusing To Roll Over Its EU Trade Agreement For The UK If There's A No-Deal Brexit
02/07/2019
The decision not to “roll over” the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) if the UK abandons its withdrawal agreement with Brussels is a huge blow to Britain's hopes of maintaining continuity in a no-deal Brexit and could severely impact businesses that sell goods to the Canadian market.
"Only way you can get frictionless trade is to actually be in the Single Market" - Liam Fox
01/07/2019
“I’ve always argued that the only way you can get frictionless trade is to actually be in the Single Market.”
Trade minister rejected Boris Johnson’s claim exporters would be spared tariffs after no deal