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Britain’s former ambassador to the European Union Ivan Rogers has predicted that Britain will leave the post-Brexit transition at the end of this year with no deal, describing Boris Johnson as a Trumpite politician who wants the EU to fail.
‘Please leave my town’: Yorkshire man tells Boris Johnson to go away during campaign walkabout
06/09/2019
'It is Dominic Cummings and you playing games with Parliament, playing games with the people of United Kingdom'
When the prime minister was first informed, his response was: “You keep an eye on it. It will probably go away.”
‘Boris Johnson and Michael Gove Must Have Known About Illegality’: Why the Two Vote Leave Leaders are a Threat to Democracy
04/06/2019
Shahmir Sanni co-founded BeLeave, an offshoot of the Vote Leave campaign, during the EU Referendum. He turned whistleblower last year when he exposed its law-breaking. Here he reveals how two of the contenders to replace Theresa May cannot absolve themselves of responsibility.
My former Conservative colleagues: ask yourselves what Boris Johnson has achieved, and heed the damning answer
As part of our special edition looking at five years since the EU referendum, Alastair Campbell looks at the silence of the Leavers.
A no-deal Brexit will be grim for patients. Yet gagging orders are being used to keep the truth from coming out.
We need a Brexit inquiry
29/11/2023
The Covid inquiry has shone a light on the government’s pandemic response. Now it’s time for scrutiny of another national disaster.
Appointment would cause ructions in Westminster as many hope for outsider to take key role.
Buried in a 19,800 word Spectator essay written by former online editor and Vote Leave director Dominic Cummings is an admission: The Brexit referendum was won by lying to the public.
Former No 10 adviser pressed for appointment to be hurried through, saying he had ‘ordered it’ from PM.
Tory minister is resisting calls to sell stake in Faculty as it expands its Whitehall reach
Spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller has called on Dominic Cummings to hire him - because he thinks he can secure post-Brexit trade deals.
Under cover of Brexit - Chris Grey
03/07/2020
The most important Brexit event of the week came and went with relatively little fanfare, yet it marks a significant moment.
UK’s Rival to Galileo - A Brexit Farce
30/07/2020
The sorry tale of Britain’s as-yet-unnamed rival to the EU’s Galileo programme took another unexpected, miserable and hugely expensive turn in the past few days.
PM and chancellor back purchase of 20% stake in troubled US operator OneWeb.
UK inquiry was warned of Russian infiltration, leaked testimony shows [inc. video, 5 mins]
11/11/2019
Russia's influence reaches deep into the British establishment and successive UK governments have turned a blind eye to it, lawmakers were warned, according to multiple sources familiar with testimony given to a parliamentary inquiry.
Boris Johnson accused of acting like Stuart king with ‘divine right to rule’ after Downing Street says UK leaving EU whatever the circumstances.
Exit is chance to restore trust between No 10 and MPs, says one senior backbencher.
No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.
The secret Brexit document exposes the duplicity of those that led us into this no-deal debacle
18/08/2019
If Brexiteers had been more honest, arguing we face perhaps a decade of pain to reset our global stance, I would have more respect for them.
Departure of Boris Johnson’s Brexit ‘brain’ signals end of influence for Vote Leave team.
You may wonder why on earth a Tory government led by Boris Johnson, the heirs to Thatcher for goodness sake, are sacrificing the prospect of a trade deal with the EU because they want the right to subsidise British industry.