Fast-forward nine years of dedication to his academic involvement in the UK, the university reader, a top rank in Britain’s academic system, felt the EU referendum announcement in 2016 was “an incredible regression in British political and cultural life”.

European leaders made their feelings about the Northern Ireland protocol known to a PM desperate to score a PR victory.

Letter signed by 170 cultural figures seeks a ‘unilateral and open offer’ to rejoin EU ahead of Holyrood elections.

SNP members have backed a motion which commits the party to strengthening Scotland’s ties with Europe and the rest of the world, despite the challenges of a post-Brexit Britain and an isolationist Tory Government.

UK decision not to send minister to meeting is sign of how Brexit is shifting foreign policy.

Former PM says country faces competing visions: isolated or internationalist. / The divisions in the UK are so deep and pervasive that reconciliation could take a generation, Gordon Brown has said.