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France's former ambassador to the UK Sylvie Bermann tells LBC that Brexit had "no advantages" and that facts were presented as "scaremongering".
Today marks 100 days since Brexit properly happened in the UK - with seamless trade and EU rules replaced by a weighty trade deal.
The renewed tension in Northern Ireland could have far-reaching implications for the future of the United Kingdom - and post-Brexit relations with the EU.
Police are monitoring tensions at the peace wall gates at the Shankill Road and Lanark Way as fresh loyalist protests break out in parts of Northern Ireland.
For British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, rioting on the streets in Northern Ireland is a reminder that once the pandemic fades, the U.K. will have to face up to the long-term consequences of Brexit.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced calls to bring the parties together for talks after a bus was hijacked and torched in Belfast.
DOUGLAS Ross has condemned the "shocking" further violence on the streets of Belfast as he was quizzed about post-Brexit trading arrangements that have created economic barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
Labour said the PM had 'squandered' Unionists' trust as Northern Ireland Secretary admitted 'concerns' about the Brexit deal were among factors in the unrest.
Molotov cocktails and barricades have returned to Northern Ireland. The conflict there is 4 centuries old. But Brexit is the new reason why the situation has reached the boiling point in what had been an era of peace.
The Brexit bills are starting to fall due for Boris Johnson just as the U.K. prime minister seeks to cast himself as a global statesman leading the Group of Seven’s fight to defeat Covid-19.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—For more than a week earlier this month, Northern Ireland was rocked by riots in pro-British unionist communities, with frequent outbursts of violence in areas bordering on pro-Irish nationalist neighborhoods.
Which way do the political winds blow in Northern Ireland? The centennial of the decision to remain in the United Kingdom has been overshadowed by the infighting within the Democratic Unionist Party of the now outgoing First Minister Arlene Foster, pushed out by her own rank and file. We ask if that signals a further tack to the right for the Christian fundamentalist, pro-Brexit DUP...
A senior cabinet minister told The Times that the country risked a “violent, popular uprising” if a second referendum overturned the result of the first one.
“Earlier in the year we had people back out on the streets again. There was civil unrest, there was violence on the streets."
‘It’s time to f*** s*** up,’ extremists threaten after parliament moves to block no-deal Brexit.
It is the second such incident in and around Belfast in the past week.
Get Brexit Done’ has unravelled in a spectacular fashion; a significant knock to the economy, removal of rights and freedoms, more red tape for business and – the most heart-breaking of all – trouble has returned to Northern Ireland. The obvious answer to this foreseeable problem is for the UK to be part of the single market and customs union.
Loyalist fears that Boris Johnson is abandoning them have sparked a wave of violence that could endanger the Good Friday Agreement.
Labour claims that PM is aiming to invoke emergency powers using the Civil Contingencies Act.
"Northern Ireland has much to gain from Brexit," Hoey proclaimed in 2016, a month before the referendum.
It took an event unrelated to the Irish Sea border furore to set a match to simmering tensions.
IT should give nobody any satisfaction to say of the current deeply troubling disorder in Northern Ireland that it was, alas, not only utterly predictable, but constantly predicted.
Pro-British loyalist militants in Northern Ireland said on Friday there had been a "spectacular collective failure" to understand their anger over Brexit and other issues as there was some respite in street clashes following a week of riots.