'Get Brexit done is the biggest delusion of all' - Michael Heseltine launches scathing attack on Boris Johnson.
Prominent global Putin critics say British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suppress a parliamentary report into Russian influence is more evidence that the British political system is rotten when it comes to cracking down on Russian oligarchs.
Parliament hears proponents of leaving the EU are “in a state of confusion and denial” as calls grow for public inquiry.
'We have no objections': Security officials say secret Russia report being blocked by Boris Johnson government can be published immediately
05/11/2019
'We are as much spectators in this as you are,' security source tells The Independent, as government blocks publication of documents until after election.
The UK is lagging behind European counterparts in terms of growth because of Brexit, the Director of Tax Research UK tells Nick Ferrari.
Supporters of the European Convention on Human Rights must seize the moment and confront right-wing propaganda demanding the UK leaves it now - or risk a Brexit-style disaster, argues Kevin Maguire.
Georgia has made a tongue-in-cheek bid to take the United Kingdom’s place at Europe’s top table. / The country’s pro-EU president, Salome Zourabichvili, was speaking to Euronews at the European elections debate in Paris on Tuesday.
Three years after the UK formally exited the European Union, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released new economic forecasts for 2023 which project that the UK will be the only advanced economy to contract this year.
Opinium poll for the Observer also reveals 47% of public think Putin’s government affected UK’s 2019 general election.
The European Court ruled on Tuesday that the Russian government violated several articles in the European Convention on Human Rights over the course of its 11-month pre-trial detention and posthumous criminal conviction of Sergei Magnitsky.
A vote for Brexit was a vote for Putin
22/02/2023
After the EU referendum, suspicions grew about the role of Russia in clinching the narrow ‘win’ for Brexit.
Sophie Stowers and Alan Wager look back on a year in Brexit, using the UK in a Changing Europe/Redfield and Wilton Strategies Brexit tracker poll to highlight five key trends in attitudes to Brexit in 2022.
After Brexit, desperate Tories needed a new crusade. They think dumping ‘human rights’ could be it
10/08/2023
The drumbeats get louder as the call of the wild pulses through the blood of the Conservative party again. The front page of the Telegraph on Thursday splashes, “Cabinet call on PM to ditch ECHR”. On their headcount, a third of the British cabinet want to join Russia and Belarus as pariah states outside the European convention on human rights.
The multimillionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks has lost his libel action against the Observer and Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr, in a significant decision for public interest journalism.
Arron Banks: the man who bankrolled Brexit
09/11/2018
Carole Cadwalladr has been covering the biggest pro-leave donor for nearly two years. As each revelation sparks a new investigation, Arron Banks rubbishes her journalism. But those investigations are beginning to bite.
John Sweeney, a BBC investigative reporter, has turned whistleblower and filed a complaint against the corporation with Ofcom, the broadcasting watchdog.
PM urged to recognise pursuit of no-deal Brexit would be regarded as serious error by US.
In August 2018, Spanish authorities uncovered a plot by anti-Brexit campaigners to assassinate leading Brexiteer and now favourite to be Britain’s next prime minister, Boris Johnson. Or did they?
Boris Johnson 'too busy with Brexit' to read secret report on Russian interference in UK politics, Tory minister claims
05/11/2019
Senior Conservatives join calls for publication before election - amid new warning investigation could remain under wraps for six months.
Boris Johnson blocked release of Russia report against advice of intelligence agencies, Dominic Grieve says
06/11/2019
‘This must not be allowed to happen again,’ committee chair says as parliament dissolves.
oris Johnson on Monday faced fresh calls to withdraw remarks which compared the UK’s vote for Brexit with Ukraine’s battle for freedom against Russia.
Boris Johnson nominates Chris Grayling to chair key security committee overseeing Russia report
10/07/2020
First decision for new chair will be on the publication of the long-delayed report into Russian attempts to interfere in UK democracy.
The long-awaited Russia report today refused to rule out Moscow interfering in the EU referendum - and called for a formal assessment. But the government has dismissed the calls out of hand.
A group of politicians are threatening legal action unless Boris Johnson orders an independent investigation into Russian interference in elections.
UK government rejects ‘clunky institutional framework’ for foreign policy cooperation.