The shadow Northern Ireland secretary appeared alongside Charlie McConalogue at a Business Post event in London.
Party hopes to attend meetings of EU foreign affairs council should it win UK election.
Warning over empty supermarket shelves and higher food prices as new post-Brexit charges hit
05/04/2024
The new charges are set to come into force at the end of the month and will mean higher food prices will be passed on to consumers, suppliers warn.
The First Minister will address the London School of Economics. / Scotland’s First Minister will use a speech in London on Tuesday to attack Labour and the Tories over Brexit.
Humza Yousaf to say Scotland damaged by Brexit, but Tories and Labour are in denial, in London speech
12/03/2024
Scotland has been damaged by Brexit, but both the Tories and Labour are in denial, Humza Yousaf is set to say.
Electric vehicles moving between the UK and the EU face a 10 per cent tariff once a grace period expires in 2027.
Seven years on from the referendum, the divisions it exposed still affect how people vote.
Brexit: despatches from the downside – No 19
27/01/2024
This week's Brexit downsides: half a billion in extra costs to import food, the collapse of trade talks with Canada and more.
Keir Starmer’s party set out ‘new deal’ for sector – as figures show 6,000 farms have gone bust.
Brexit: 57% of Britons support rejoining single market even with freedom of movement, YouGov poll finds
30/11/2023
The YouGov poll comes after EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the UK should rejoin the EU to "fix" Brexit.
Seven in ten Britons support a closer relationship with the EU than we have now. / As we approach the fourth anniversary of Brexit, 52% of Britons now believe that the UK leaving the EU was the wrong decision. The Labour party – likely to form the next government – have so far resisted calls to move towards rejoining the single market...
How Voting Behaviour Links to National Identity – And What it Means for the Next Election
27/11/2023
Between 2001 and 2019, the Conservative share of ‘more English than British’ voters rose from 40% to 68% while ‘more British’ voters still preferred to vote Labour. ‘Political Englishness’ was also evident in support for UKIP and the Brexit party in the 2014 and 2019 EU elections and in support for Leave in the EU referendum.
Rishi Sunak's Brexit deal renegotiation can pave the way for Labour to agree closer EU ties if it wins power, a shadow minister has said.
Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says both his party and Labour are being dishonest over the disaster of Brexit.
Scottish Labour by-election candidate not 'against' reversing Brexit if public mood changes
10/08/2023
Michael Shanks has taken a different position to leader Keir Starmer by saying he still believes the "European project is good for all of us".
Touring musicians coming to Scotland are still struggling with "massively damaging" visa issues in the wake of Brexit, Labour's shadow culture secretary has claimed.
Sadiq Khan wants to talk about the B-word. Or rather, he wishes Keir Starmer would.
Keir Starmer facing pressure to offer new customs union policy with EU as Brexit regret rises
04/07/2023
A number of Labour MPs believe there is a palpable shift in public opinion on Brexit due to comparatively worse inflation figures in the UK to Europe and ongoing issues with the trade deal with Brussels.
The U.K.'s anticipated accession to an encompassing trans-Pacific economic agreement in July will provide an "imperceptibly small" boost economically and will not compensate for its exit from the European Union, said Bill Emmott, former editor-in-chief of The Economist, in a recent interview with Nikkei.
Speaking at the Trade Unlocked conference, Shadow International Trade Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds gave new details of how the party would amend the deal struck by Boris Johnson.
A Labour government under Keir Starmer will “fix the holes in Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal,” including on electric vehicles, the party’s trade chief said Tuesday, promising to mend ties with the U.K.’s largest trade partner.
Labour big beast Neil Kinnock has warned Keir Starmer he might struggle to meet a key election pledge without rejoining the EU’s Single Market.
The leader of the GMB union said the UK ‘needs a new settlement’ with the EU as Brexit was ‘hitting trade’.
Keir Starmer’s tedious, hardline rhetoric on Brexit actually reveals our path back to Europe.
The party would 'demand' closer ties with the EU if they were to support a minority Labour government.