Suggestions of the UK aiming for a ‘Swiss-style’ deal with the EU are misleading, unrealistic and unattainable.

Even after years of division and vitriol, it seems like Britain still needs to talk about Brexit. / More than six years after voting to leave the European Union, the UK is facing a prolonged recession and a deep cost-of-living crisis. Last week’s Autumn Statement heralded years of higher taxes and cuts to public spending.

EU officials have derided the British Government’s ‘chaotic’ approach to negotiations and said the much-reviled ‘Swiss mess’ is ‘not on the table’.

British sentiment toward leaving the European Union appears to be changing. As the United Kingdom marks a year since its Brexit referendum vote, a new opinion poll shows that a majority now wants to stay. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant gets a range of reactions as the country faces its independent future.

Memoirs of negotiations show how Brussels lost trust in Downing Street team.

British officials preparing ‘domestic’ alternative to EU programme as Barnier accuses UK of ‘cherry-picking’.

[BrexitDB NOTE: These agencies have now left the UK.] Wrangle around European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority after Brussels insists they must leave UK.

The European Union is taking a defiant tone as the standoff over resuming post-Brexit trade negotiations with the United Kingdom continues.

The idea that Britain can leave the European Union and maintain frictionless trade with the bloc of 27 countries is officially dead.

Spokesman for Boris Johnson says hopes of meeting deadline in December are dwindling

The United Kingdom has passed the point of no return. It has less than six months to reach a new trade deal with the European Union or risk heaping more pressure on companies that are already laying off tens of thousands of workers because of the coronavirus pandemic.

France’s former Europe Minister, now an MEP, has hit out at the “eternal British mistake of believing that by dividing the EU, the UK will obtain what it wants”.

Goodbye letter reminds Britain: ‘Without being a member, you cannot retain the benefits of membership’

United bloc will continue to protect its interests, say Michel Barnier and Leo Varadkar

UK's former ambassador to EU said any free trade deal with the bloc would have to be ‘the biggest ever’

Pascal Lamy, former director general of the World Trade Organisation and EU commissioner: Michael Gove today was “pie in the sky” / “you export less, you produce less. You have less trade, less exports and less jobs.” He said: “The notion that you exit the EU tradewise with no price is simply a lie”