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What, then, of the UK? Despite the UK technically being free of Brussels ‘red tape’, the EU remains its chief export market. That means British businesses have little choice but to follow new EU regulations – on packaging, due diligence, and much else – to maintain market access. And so, EU regulations become de facto UK ones.
Women know Brexit is toxic. On International Women’s Day, dare we think of life without Brexit – and make it happen?
The challenge posed by Britain leaving the EU gave the European Commission an opportunity to embed its values and its members’ interests.
A look at what some pro-Europeans are saying about rejoining the EU - and a response.
The new first minister represents a party that does not acknowledge Northern Ireland's six counties as separate from the 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland. The historic moment has huge implications, David Blevins writes.
Even in the long, bedraggled and dishonourable retreat from certainty which has characterised the realisation that Brexit is not going to work and never could, this week surely marks an apostasy none of us could ever have expected.
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer set out to help make Europe less boring. A million downloads later, they feel optimistic.
Brussels spares little time to think of the UK, and the waters of the North Sea really are closing over the British.
A Starmer government looks inevitable. And once in No.10, all the pressure on him will be to reject Brexit.
Drawing on their recent article, Tim Bale and Karl Pike explore the consequences of the ‘Merkel myth’ for Brexit – the notion that the key to UK withdrawal lay with Angela Merkel.
The Tory Party has been taken over by cynics and fantasists, says former Telegraph editor Max Hastings – which is why he has decided to vote Labour.
Little could be meaner than sacrificing our young people to promote a malicious form of British nationalism. But is that what’s happened?
The UK’s negotiating position towards the EU has become much more challenging since it is no longer covered by bloc solidarity.
We didn’t know the facts about the EU before voting to leave. We need to learn before considering to re-join.
Following the UK’s departure from the EU, the UK’s veterinary sector was hit hard. Now, shortages threaten food safety risks and delays at borders – so what can we do to change this bleak narrative?
Today is one year since the “Choice on units of measurement: markings and sales” consultation closed. It is about Government proposals to remove the requirement to show metric units alongside imperial units in trade or allow metric units to be shown with less prominence than imperial units.
It might seem like a small detail, but it marks a serious blow to the push for ‘divergence’.
Brexit Bingo! 14/08/2023
New writer Flo Clucas regales us with her conversation with some elderly Bingo players. This showed that we need to communicate more clearly why Britain is in such a parlous situation.
If departing the EU has failed to deliver, why is the UK still so divided? Seven years on, we ask behavioural psychologists if cognitive dissonance can be overcome.
Anthony Robinson presents a panoramic view of the current travails defining a post-Brexit nation.
‘Most of my family voted to Remain. They think I was naïve, to put it politely,’ says 49-year-old Barny Gaveney. / ‘Thinking about what we had then and what we have now is soul-destroying’
Rishi Sunak claims to want to promote British science and research. The prime minister rightly says the country has great strengths in areas that range from artificial intelligence to life sciences, though it also faces some obstacles. One of these is its post-Brexit absence from Horizon, the European Union’s (and the world’s) biggest collaborative research programme.
The UK government has announced an indefinite extension to the use of CE marking for British businesses, which shows that products meet EU standards. This is a major U-turn from the previous plan to introduce a UKCA system, which would have created costly duplication and reduced consumer choice. The UKCA system was an absurd consequence of Brexit...