Wales and the rest of the UK should re-join the single market to undo the economic damage caused by Brexit, Plaid Cymru has said.

The extra costs of doing trade with Europe have already wiped out the entire 2020 profits of Frog Bikes in Pontypool

BORIS Johnson’s “Brexit Freedoms” Bill poses a direct threat to the powers of the Scottish Parliament, the deputy first minister has warned.

Some EU nationals in Wales may not be aware they need to apply for their children to be allowed to stay in the UK, according to charities.

Wales should hold an independence referendum if Brexit happens without a further EU poll, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has said. People could then choose between an independent Wales at Europe's "heart" or a "forgotten second-class region in a dying British state," he said.

The UK left the EU on January 31, 2020, but more than two years on, businesses in Wales are still trying to adjust to the challenges and issues it's brought.

'We are not the envy of the world anymore, we are the crackpot aunty in the corner that everyone laughs at.'

A Welsh shellfish wholesaler says she is worried for her future after nearly £50,000 of lobsters, prawns and crabs were delayed for more than 30 hours on a lorry to Spain.

For the UK to survive, the UK government's approach to devolution needs to "change fundamentally", Wales' Brexit minister has warned.

The leader of Plaid Cymru Adam Price calls on Labour to make the positive case for the single market and customs union.

Professor Dame Sally Davies said shortages of medical supplies will put lives at risk.

Michael Gove just confirmed to me at @SeneddEAAL that the UK Government has not conducted an economic impact assessment on the effect of the Brexit deal on Holyhead Port. This did not stop him from claiming that the deal would leave Holyhead in "a stronger position than ever".

The company has spoken out as supermarket shelves empty in Wales.

Kautex Textron said the closure of its Ystrad Mynach site in Caerphilly county was being considered.

Scottish voters are electing a new parliament this week, and again the pro-independence party SNP is expected to win. The vote could lead the way to the disintegration of the United Kingdom.

The UK government needs to "get a move on" in developing the system to replace EU funds in Wales after Brexit, according to a former Welsh secretary.

IN the early hours of Friday morning Labour’s Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted that Boris Johnson should remember that “the Conservatives are only the largest party in one of the four nations”.

As Johnson and Gove back off their pledge to scrap VAT for fuel, EU structural funds are not being fully replaced.

They are one of the biggest employers in Wales, but chief executive Tom Enders said the handling of Brexit was 'a disgrace' and urged people not to listen to 'Brexiteers' madness'

THEY say a week is a long time in politics – and this week has certainly felt it! Intent on further undermining the devolution settlement and Scottish democracy, the UK Government is pushing ahead with its flawed Retained EU Law (REUL) Bill later today.

Cemaes Community Interest Company (CIC) secured permission in 2018 to convert Capel Bethlehem into a holiday let, cinema and restaurant. / But now the site has gone on the market with estate agent Dafydd Hardy for £400,000. The CIC said grant funding of the scale required has been very difficult to source post Brexit and the pandemic.

A new government scheme was meant to replace EU structural funds lost after Britain left. But critics say it delivers less money and will do little to bolster the Tories’ levelling up agenda.

The approach by the UK Government to Brexit trade policy and negotiations protocol is causing “potentially irreparable damage” to Wales’ ports, researchers have said.

Wales' cultural identity is at stake in the row over an Australian trade deal being finalised by the UK government, the first minister has warned.

Wales' automotive industry faces more challenges over future Brexit trade changes, according to experts. / The Welsh Automotive Forum said new checks on imports and rules over where car parts can come from could add to customs disruption when they are introduced.

Senior figures in Scotland and Wales warn Brexit is bringing a ‘statutory fist crashing down’.

The SNP is on the rise once again in Scotland and nationalist parties in Northern Ireland outnumber unionists for the first time in history.

Boris Johnson has been warned his prospective free trade deal with Australia could “decimate” the British farming industry, as opposition parties unite against a zero-tariff agreement.

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s big tour of the U.K. saw him booed by EU supporters in Wales and heckled by nationalists in Scotland. Northern Ireland’s fractious parties then told him that his Brexit plans were reopening old wounds.

Border checks between Scotland, England and Wales could be required because of varying food standards after Brexit, academics have warned.

Racism and race-related hate crime has increased since the 2016 Brexit referendum, with officers appointed to deal with resultant "tensions".

In what follows, a group of leading social scientists explore these themes, explaining what has happened in the past, the situation the UK finds itself in now, and the issues that might confront us going forward. The collection is intended as a guide to the big questions confronting the country in the years to come.

More than 200 jobs are at risk at a car parts firm in south Wales.

However far less attention has been given to the considerable impact Brexit has had on devolution and the relationships within the UK between its constituent parts.

Brexit and inflation have been blamed as two of the key factors behind plans to close a poultry factory on Anglesey. ‌​‌‌​​​‌‍‌​‌​‌​​/ He said the company’s chief executive had cited Brexit and the impact on trading conditions as one of the main causes behind the factory’s potential closure. ‌​‌‌​​​‌‍‌​‌​‌​​​

THE Welsh Government’s rural affairs minister Lesley Griffiths has said Brexit is to blame for uncertainties on farming policy.

Animal health bodies have welcomed the government’s U-turn on its plans for scrapping swathes of retained EU legislation, which could have wiped out 44 animal welfare laws.

Brexit will do for independence what Thatcherism did for devolution, one of Plaid Cymru's MPs has said.

A Brexit border control post in Holyhead is set to shrink under plans for a lighter touch system using more data and technology. In May, the UK Government delayed introducing more checks on EU goods entering the UK for the fourth time over fears it will impact supply chains and add to rising inflation.

Ian Davies said hauliers were switching to direct routes to Belfast and only time would tell if this was a blip or long term change.

Farmers fear Westminster will impose England-centric replacement for CAP, with knock-on effects for tourism and language. Farming in Snowdonia will be wiped out by Brexit unless the next government matches subsidies under the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) pound for pound, the president of the Farmers’ Union of Wales has said.

Car manufacturers appear to be hitting the accelerator out of Britain as the country moves toward an exit from the European Union. More than 1,000 jobs are set to be lost at Ford's engine plant in Wales, German auto-maker BMW is reportedly considering the viability of its Mini plant in Oxford while Nissan wants the U.K. government to guarantee suppliers for its plant in North East England.

The UK landbridge that offered traders the fastest route between Ireland and the European continent before Brexit will not re-emerge as a preferred option for moving goods, the head of Dublin Port was quoted as saying on Friday.

The route is due to run out of money by the end of August. / A busy tourist project connecting Ireland's southeast with three Welsh counties will come to an end in August due to a collapse in funding.

Red tape means Neil Alcock’s Seiont Nurseries in Caernarfon has a four-day marathon via France, Holland and England – at £280 a trolley instead of £100

The people of Wales feel more strongly Welsh than they did in 2016, and Brexit is likely to be the reason, a top academic professor has said.

Six years on, it seems Europe still hasn’t got the memo. For that matter, neither has Britain. The United Kingdom, rather than leaping boldly into a brave new future, is imploding. Europe, meanwhile, seems to have found a new sense of purpose.

A new report from Public Health Wales has detailed how attention is urgently needed to understand the impacts of Brexit on illicit trade in Wales to mitigate potential health harms and deaths linked to illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

A senior Welsh politician has accused the UK government of rushing through its "Brexit Freedoms Bill".

Officials have said it would be a “terrible shame” to see a tourism initiative between Ireland and Wales close due to funding issues over Brexit.

Holyhead and Fishguard ports saw a 30% drop in traffic in 2021, according to its operator Stena Line. / Ian Davies, boss of Stena's UK ports, said it was down to the new post-Brexit trading relationship with the European Union rather than the pandemic.

As you may have noticed Jacob Rees Mogg Esquire – as no doubt he would style himself – has invited the public to submit suggestions on the theme of ‘Opportunities of Brexit’. I could not resist replying. Could I possibly suggest that you, after reading this, do the same?

An act which saw the Welsh Government begin legal action against the UK Government “damaged relations” between them, a report has found.

A mussel fishing and farming company in North Wales fears that it and other firms that export live mussels and other bivalve shellfish to the EU will be put out of business by Brexit, reports Tim Oliver

The closure of Wrexham’s Business Hub was due to the impacts of Brexit, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said. ‌​‌​‌​​​‍‌​‌​​‌‌‌‍‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‌​‌‌‌‌​​

The post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and EU is a "thin deal' for Wales, says the first minister.

Wales' £39m commercial fishing sector will be "devastated" by changes under the Brexit trade deal, fishermen have warned.

Mr Drakeford, who is stepping down next month after five years as First Minister, said Brexit had left Wales a billion pounds worse off and cut off from the rest of the world.

Our fundamental values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law are under direct threat. The next election has to produce a different outcome, and we'll get it by holding the prime minister accountable

The UK Government’s Brexit trade deals are “naive” because they pitch Welsh farmers directly against countries with lower standards, the President of the Farmers’ Union of Wales has said.

The political reality is that the United Kingdom is on a shoogly peg - and Brexit may be catalyst which breaks up the country.

Darren Millar, the MS for Clwyd West, has retained his EU citizenship, despite voting to take it away from others.

The 730 redundancies at a chicken processing plant could be the “first of many” such blows to the Welsh economy the Leader of Anglesey County Council has warned.

In this week's Brexit downsides, extra food labelling costing up to £250mn, a huge drop in overseas students, veterinary shortages in NI, and more.

Your weekly update from the Brexit ‘downside bunker’, chronicling the downsides, and occasional upsides, of Brexit.

About 1,000 university research jobs are at risk unless the UK government urgently replaces European Union funding, bosses have warned.

Extra import controls will be ‘impossible’ for small businesses, says food industry chief.

Northern Ireland has been hardest hit, with exports to the EU falling by a third between 2018 and 2021, analysis of official figures shows.

This article looks at the Government’s commitments to replace EU development funding in Wales, which has ceased because of Brexit. An oral question on the subject is due to be asked in the House of Lords on 3 March 2021.

A Tory Brexiteer MP has been slammed by his own colleague for his “wrong and unhelpful” remarks about Welsh democracy.

A MAJORITY of leave voters in Wales wouldn’t back removing powers from the Senedd in the name of making the most of Brexit.

Daniel Lambert, who supplies M&S, Waitrose and 300 independent retailers, to set up in France after £150,000 hole in revenue.

THE European Commission is to explore ways for Scotland and Wales to stay in its ground breaking Erasmus student exchange programme, The National can reveal.

UK government plans to scrap thousands of EU laws at the end of 2023 should be reconsidered, according to a cross-party group of Senedd members.

WALES and Ireland should strive for greater ties at a crucial juncture in the countries’ shared history, the Senedd heard. / Delyth Jewell led a debate on a report following an inquiry into Wales-Ireland relations.

Got No Beef announced that they have closed their doors for the final time.

Cardiff For Europe is a grassroots, cross-party and no-party organisation made up of the people of Cardiff.

Labour have reprimanded a frontbench MP after she told a private meeting she hoped the UK could return to the EU single market if the party formed a government.

Concern is growing among farmers and unions about the importation of lower quality food to the UK, post-Brexit.

Ministers are facing a clash with opposition and Conservative MPs over their plans to scrap EU-era laws copied over to UK law after Brexit.

Calls for Wales to have one ferry port in Pembrokeshire instead of two due to declining trade following Brexit would be a “disaster” for the county, a Senedd candidate has said.

CALLS to merge Pembrokeshire's ports from both sides of the Irish Sea have been branded as a potential 'catastrophe' while a local politician has said he will 'fight tooth and nail' for the port of Fishguard.

The Welsh Government's approach to agreeing post-Brexit legislation with the UK government is "high-risk and flawed", a report has said.

A farmer says the lack of border checks on meat coming into the UK is deeply worrying, as it could be putting the country at risk of diseases like foot and mouth.

Scottish and Welsh governments seek answers about programme’s future from UK education secretary. / The Scottish and Welsh governments have written to the UK education secretary to raise concerns about the future of the European student exchange programme after Brexit.

There are fears that the cost of carrying out extra Brexit border checks may fall on island ratepayers unless more cash is forthcoming from central Government.

There are fears that the cost of carrying out extra Brexit border checks may fall on island ratepayers unless more cash is forthcoming from central Government.

A Welsh Conservative has told the Senedd that the new UK subsidy control regime is taking so long to navigate that it’s having a detrimental impact on a business in his constituency.

An ex-UK Government Tory minister has admitted the Welsh were deliberately misled about how replacement money for former EU funds would be spent in Wales. Wales used to receive a huge amount of money from the EU before Brexit.

Pero Foods in Betws-y-Coed has spoken of the post-Brexit 'chaos' in the system for exporting to the EU.

Jeremy Corbyn has been warned that his refusal to commit to a fresh Brexit referendum is causing Labour members to abandon to party in their droves, as its ruling body prepares to meet to decide the party's manifesto for next month's European Parliament elections.

The Brexit transition period should be extended as the UK tackles the coronavirus outbreak, the Welsh Government has said.

Wales is not too poor to be an independent nation. The ex-first minister of Wales believes so anyway, though others are less sure. So, how would Wales fare economically if it had to go it alone in a post-Brexit world?

Brexit Minister Jeremy Miles has warned of a new crisis facing the UK and says the time is right to consider fundamental constitutional change post-Brexit.

Farmgate prices for lamb and beef have hit a new high over the first months of 2021.

The UK government does not "fully comprehend how difficult it is for businesses to plan" for Brexit, the boss of Wales' largest building society has said.

Covid, Brexit and a shortage of lorry drivers has been blamed for delays in collecting people's household rubbish. Ceredigion, Powys, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan councils said they were already facing delays or expected further delays. Residents said their household or garden waste had been left on the kerbside for weeks.

THE UK Government has been accused of “clumsy control-freakery” after a letter sent to the devolved nations insisted that London be informed of all contact with the EU.

A majority of people who voted to leave the European Union are also against reducing the powers of the Welsh Parliament, according to a survey by Cardiff University experts.

“If these proposals involve changing the law in devolved policy areas, then pressing ahead without the consent of the Scottish parliament would demonstrate yet again the UK government’s intent to undermine devolution," a senior Scottish minister has said.

UK agriculture is highly exposed to serious diseases imported from Europe, including African swine fever (ASF), because of a failure to get new border control posts (BCPs) operational before July 2022, a senior vet has warned.

Diverting trade from Wales a ‘consequence of Brexit’, says Irish Foreign Minister.

The first minister has accused the UK government of lacking urgency addressing falling freight numbers at Welsh ports.

Micheál Martin's comments come as Welsh ports continue to experience the fallout from the UK's withdrawal from the European Union.

More than a year on from Brexit Welsh companies say they are feeling the pinch from making fewer sales to Europe.

A delayed multi-million pound bypass project partly paid for by EU funds has been hit by rising costs due to Brexit and the pandemic, councillors in Gwynedd have been told.

First Minister Carwyn Jones has said he will take steps to protect Welsh powers after Brexit if UK ministers do not change their EU withdrawal bill. He claimed the way Theresa May planned to bring powers back from Brussels was a "fundamental assault" on devolution.

Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK's super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters -- and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election -- Cadwalladr calls out the "gods of Silicon Valley" ...

NFU president tells conference ministers have no understanding of how food production works. / Food producers have said the challenges they face are “the toughest in a generation” as members of the National Farmers’ Union met for their annual conference after the first full year of Brexit.

Scottish farmers could lose £170m by 2025, with Welsh and Northern Irish ministers also critical of new regime.

Select committee says government needs contingency plans to protect consumers and businesses from impact from tariffs. / Food prices could rise sharply and farming businesses could be wiped out at the end of a Brexit transition period, a House of Commons committee has warned.

Boris Johnson has been warned that his prospective trade deal with Australia could spell “a slow painful death” for Britain’s beef farming industry, after one of Australia’s biggest producers said a zero-tariff agreement could increase exports to the UK tenfold.

Food and drink supplies in the UK face more disruption after the end of the Brexit transition period than they did from Covid, the industry has said.

He was booed in Scotland. In Wales, a chicken submitted to his embrace, but politicians held him at arm’s length. And in Northern Ireland, there were rumblings of Irish unity — which could only come at the expense of its ties to the rest of the United Kingdom.

The First Minister has said famers in Wales would be in a “very different position” if they hadn’t taken the advice of Andrew RT Davies and voted for Brexit.

Mark Drakeford has warned the Brexit deal agreed by the UK Government with the EU on Northern Ireland earlier this week could have a negative impact on Welsh Ports.

The Welsh and Scottish governments have said they will work together to try to keep the UK in the European Union.

BREXIT could cost the economies of Wrexham and Flintshire as much as £300m a year, new research suggests.

"It's not us putting the prices up, it's Brexit." / Rosa shared some staggering statistics. Between the referendum result in 2016 and May 2018, 1900 florists shut up shop. Between May to October 2018 more floristry businesses closed.

A FOUR-NATIONS fightback against Boris Johnson’s proposed trade deal with Australia is to be hammered out next week.

As the economic harm that it has done becomes ever clearer, all but the most die-hard Tory Brexiteers are increasingly prepared to admit that Brexit was a mistake. Trade with the Europe has slumped, productivity is down, and there are 4,000 fewer European doctors working in the NHS.

New trading arrangements between Ireland and the UK have had a significant and negative effect on freight traffic between the two countries.

THE Farmers Union of Wales (FUW) has reacted angrily to the news that Downing Street is exploring yet another delay to post-Brexit checks on food entering Britain, claiming it leaves domestic producers at a disadvantage.

The materialisation of a far harder form of Brexit than had been promised by those who lobbied for our departure from the EU has restricted access to our main export markets on the continent in ways which are only beginning to be felt.

Plaid Cymru, Liberal Democrats and the Greens have agreed a pro-EU electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales, BBC Wales has been told.

THE governments of Ireland and Wales have revealed a joint action plan outlining their ambitions for their post-Brexit relationship in the years ahead.

"For disgruntled steel workers in Port Talbot, the Brexit vote was their chance to get the people at the top — and the national media — to listen. In a bitter irony, they are also the ones who stand to lose the most from Brexit. "

Nearly 40% of people in Wales are in favour of independence, survey suggests

Move by Japanese firm would be blow to UK plans to replace coal plants and ageing reactors. / The Japanese conglomerate Hitachi looks certain to cancel its plans for a £16bn nuclear power station in Wales, leaving Britain’s ambitions for a nuclear renaissance in tatters.

Plans for Holyhead port show "just how shambolic" UK ministers have been on Brexit, Wales' first minister has said.

SCOTTISH and Welsh government ministers have today revealed how the Home Office has kept them waiting for 15 MONTHS for urgent Brexit talks.

The closure of Honda in Swindon would have "disastrous implications" for the Kasai automotive plant in Merthyr Tydfil, a source has told the BBC.

UKHospitality estimates that shortages are suppressing economic activity in hospitality alone by £22bn - with the pandemic hangover and Brexit adding to an existing problem of finding skilled - and even unskilled - staff.

From antibiotics to cancer drugs, The London Economic can reveal the full extent of the medicine supply crisis gripping Britain.

It has not even been five months since the end of the Brexit transition period and there have been armed patrol vessels in the Channel.

A growing number of Welsh citizens now favour an independent Wales, thanks partly to Plaid Cymru’s decision to position itself as a Remain party.

A road trip through the ancient past and shaky future of the (dis)United Kingdom. / The grim reality for Britain as it faces up to 2022 is that no other major power on Earth stands quite as close to its own dissolution.

283 workers face redundancy at one of Sheffield’s biggest steel producers, in a crushing blow for families immediately after Christmas.

Post-Brexit alternatives to European funding for research and innovation must match previous sums. Without this vital cash, our universities will suffer a terrible blow, writes Paul Boyle.

THE impact of a far harder form of Brexit than had been promised has restricted access to main farming export markets on the Continent in ways which are only beginning to be felt, according to FUW president Glyn Roberts in his end-of-year address.

The "shambles" in Westminster is driving curiosity in Welsh independence, former first minister Carwyn Jones has said. / Mr Jones will take part in a debate organised by a pro-independence group at the National Eisteddfod, in August.

Former First Minister Carwyn Jones garnered significant press coverage recently with his statement that the chaos in UK politics was driving curiosity about Welsh independence.

Huge warehouse in secret location holds £5m-worth of medical products and food.

The legislation begins its passage through the House of Lords on Monday and is likely to be heavily amended.

Irish Consulate returns to Cardiff as Brexit looks set to kickstart new and diverse relations.

Irish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy, industry leaders say.

Rosslare port saw a 371 per cent yearly increase in European freight volumes since Brexit came into force.

The case for Brexit largely rested on the assumption that the United Kingdom is a unitary nation-state in which the people give effect to their will through a unitary and all-powerful Parliament. In this post, Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen) uncovers the shortcomings of such an approach and asks whether Brexit marks the end of the first of two unions?

A year on from leaving the EU, it’s time for an annual report on how Brexit has worked out for Wales.

The Withdrawal Agreement Bill is set to be the first time in the history of devolution that both Scotland and Wales refuse to give consent.

The UK Government has been accused of a "deliberate and premeditated attack on devolution" after leaked documents appear to show it hid key parts of Brexit planning from the Welsh and Scottish governments.

Almost seven years on from the Brexit referendum, there remains uncertainty over the future UK-EU relationship. Reflecting on the lessons from the last seven years, Neil Kinnock argues there remains a clear case for the UK being an economic, political, social, scientific and cultural part of the Europe of the future.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat have called on the the UK Government to “get a grip” and accused them of “failing to address the problems they have caused” with new post-Brexit customs regulations.

Peers will launch bid to block legislation until it’s been approved by Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Officers from as far afield as Gwent in Wales, Devon and Cornwall and Yorkshire have all been moved to the county to deal with the contingency plans brought in to deal with the change in rules when travelling to EU countries.

UK ministers are granting themselves powers to spend on infrastructure in Wales.

Public opinion on Brexit in North Wales appears to have shifted significantly according to a recent poll. The number of people regretting the decision to leave the European Union (EU) now outnumbers those in favour of Brexit in every North Wales constituency.

A majority of Leave voters in Wales believe that Brexit should not be used to remove powers from the Senedd, according to findings from researchers at Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre.

The first minister has blamed Brexit-voting farmers for Welsh ministers having to draw up their own farm subsidy proposals. / Mark Drakeford's government is consulting on plans for a scheme to replace EU-designed agricultural aid.

MONTGOMERYSHIRE FUW is to raise concerns about Brexit impact on exports with their MP.

Kautex Textron said Brexit and the pandemic were ‘key contributors’ to its South Wales plant facing closure.

Drew Hendry stages protest as he warns controversial legislation will ‘demolish devolution’

24 MPs representing all four nations of the UK have written to Trade Secretary Liz Truss demanding proper parliamentary scrutiny of the upcoming trade agreement with Australia, amid concerns that the deal could put farmers around the country out of business.

The Catalan kitchen has been part of the Canton food scene for ten years but has struggled with importing ingredients and getting staff.

All documents which were requested by the Welsh Government, regarding National Museum Wales's preparedness for Brexit.

The exclusive poll for WalesOnline shows public opinion in Wales is shifting dramatically against leaving the EU. / If there was a new referendum on EU membership in Wales today, the poll commissioned from Beaufort Research by WalesOnline, suggests that Remain would have a 10 percentage point lead over leave.

Plaid Cymru’s Spokesperson for Trade and Business, Hywel Williams MP, has called for the UK to re-join the Single Market and Customs Union as “a vital first step to improving our moribund economy.”

Ministers have promised on several occasions that Wales will not lose out due to Brexit.

A new £1.5 million development in Newtown town centre is experiencing some delays as a result of Brexit and Covid, councillors were told.

Nigel Farage failed to spell out what Brexit will offer when repeatedly asked by a BBC journalist. / Ex-Ukip leader eventually suggested people in Merthyr Tydfil could all set up businesses.

Nigel Farage predicted back in 2016 that if the UK didn't leave the EU it would be the end of the steel industry. This week the Brexiteer was proven wrong again, with news of massive job losses at Port Talbot Steelworks in Wales.

Meanwhile, in the real world, we have seen a catastrophic slump, by 41%, of all our exports to the Continent. / Trade between Welsh ports and Ireland (which remains in the single market) has seen a decline of 50% in Holyhead, and 40% in Pembrokeshire.

A no-deal Brexit could cost the farming industry £850m a year in lost profits, new research seen by the BBC suggests.

Lobby group says former Labour seats have most to lose from collapse of talks.

A north Wales police chief claims he has been gagged from warning people about a possible threat to security and law and order caused by Brexit.

North Wales' tidal energy industry has received a £12.6m European Union boost.

Brexit and the pandemic have been blamed and some businesses have had to change their opening hours, while others have thrown in the towel.

When former first minister Carwyn Jones blamed Port Talbot job losses on Brexit, some scoffed and said “No, net zero.” But he wasn’t wrong

Liz Truss insists ‘British farmers have absolutely nothing to fear from this deal at all’

A poll of 1,000 people carried out by Beaufort Research found that most wanted the Welsh Government to have full or shared responsibility for dispensing the replacement for EU funds.

Plaid Cymru has accused the UK Government of securing “tiny trade deals” as a result of a ‘frenzied dash for glossy headlines’ and is calling for an economic assessment on the impact of post-Brexit trade deals on the Welsh economy.

Plaid Cymru’s Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts MP has called for a public inquiry into the economic impact of Brexit ahead of a debate in Parliament today.

Ireland is a nation that has been able to map out its own destiny, says pro-independence Welsh party leader.

Liz Saville Roberts, who represents Dwyfor Meirionnydd, has criticised the Conservative government’s Subsidy Control Bill, which will set new rules in the area.

Report calls for ‘exploratory referendum’ to look at options, followed by an in-out vote.

Party leader Adam Price puts Wales breaking away from UK at centre of campaign.

The North Wales police and crime commissioner has refused to apologise for describing voters who backed Brexit as "turkeys voting for Christmas".

The current turmoil in Westminster is the climax of a "six-year long Brexit psychodrama", Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster says.

More Welsh voters would vote to rejoin the European Union than those who would vote against in a referendum, a poll for ITV Wales has found.

Analysis suggests London and the South East stand to benefit from repatriation of regeneration cash from Brussels. / The UK’s poorest regions could lose hundreds of millions of pounds of funding to London and the South East after Brexit, an analysis had found.

A new report urges consideration of public health and well-being in post-Brexit trade agreements to avoid making existing health and inequalities in Wales worse.

Wales’ economy minister described replacement EU funding mechanisms as “chaotic and unwelcome” during a Senedd debate. / Vaughan Gething said the UK Government’s shared prosperity fund is smaller, less flexible and narrower in scope than the EU funding it replaces.

The leader of Swansea Council has raised concerns about the funding which will replace the hundreds of millions of pounds Wales used to receive from the European Union each year.

Some steel products could face post-Brexit taxes within months, the sector has warned.

The UK government is threatening to "undermine devolution", "impose its will on Wales" and "profoundly" limit the Senedd's powers after Brexit, it is claimed.

A call for work to begin now to prepare for another referendum on EU membership is expected to be backed by AMs later.

Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Lidl are just some of the stores that have responded to the complaints from customers.

‘Red Wall’ and other poor parts of England will lose as much as £1 billion of development cash this year because of Brexit, dashing Boris Johnson’s pledge to “level up” Britain.

Rishi Sunak claimed the UK offers a “very special status” to Scotland when challenged to replicate Northern Ireland’s “special” EU single market access for other home nations.

SCOTLAND and Wales are to boycott a ministerial video conference with the UK after a Brexit extension was refused before a letter from the Scottish Government had even reached No 10.

Alternative programme is ‘lesser imitation of the real thing’, ministers claim.

Welsh Assembly also seeking reassurance over future cash flow and pensions.

Nicola Sturgeon says exiting the Brexit transition period at the end of the year would be "extraordinarily reckless".

The First Ministers of Scotland and Wales have written to Boris Johnson to request an extension to the Brexit transition period.

Unprecedented event will send 'strong message' to Westminster, minister says.

The second homes crisis in Wales is likely to get worse because of Brexit and Covid-19, a new report has warned.

Joyce Watson, Labour regional Senedd Member for Mid and West Wales, recently asked what Wales was doing to protect its ports at the Welsh Parliament.

Getting a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union is "very important to sheep farming", a Tory MP has said.

Four in ten Welsh voters would back the country becoming independent from the rest of the UK if it meant staying in the European Union, according to a new poll.

Billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, a Leave campaigner in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum, has confirmed a new 4x4 vehicle will be built in France.

Small businesses importing food and wine from the European Union have warned they are "drowning" in paperwork because of Brexit.

Agent Kerry James Planning said: “In this case, unfortunately, due to the current economic climate, including Brexit and Covid-19, the business, operating as a hotel is no longer viable.

The Scottish National Party is making a last-ditch bid to block the bill taking the UK out of the European Union from becoming law, on the final day of its passage through parliament.

A shortage of UK workers is hitting supermarket shelves in Wales.

More than one third of people in Wales would support the country becoming independent if it meant remaining in the EU, according to new figures.

As Tata Steel announced significant job losses in Port Talbot, Byline TV asked Carwyn Jones why it’s happened. The answer: Brexit, and apathy.

David Hencke reports on the growing problems experienced by firms trading with the EU and the lack of help from the Vote Leave Government.

Vital decisions about Wales and Scotland are being unilaterally taken in Westminster, fuelling the arguments for devolution.

A number of local food businesses in the city have closed their doors at a time of spiralling costs and tightening budgets for households.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts that, although the UK economy will almost fully bounce back from the pandemic, it's economy and eventually the jobs market will suffer for decades due to Brexit.

Wales and Scotland say they are missing out on hundreds of millions in funding from not being part of the EU.

A no-deal Brexit would be a disaster for Wales, but both Johnson and Hunt would prioritise keeping their party together over keeping the Union together, Plaid Cymru's Adam Price writes

Otto English dissects the disadvantages that a free trade agreement between the two countries would bring to the UK.

Fake it till you make it has been the guiding maxim of British government policy for national renewal since Brexit.

The only way to protect your rights is to remain in the EU - that's why we will fight to secure a Final Say referendum on Brexit.

Watching Brexit is rather like watching a traffic collision in very slow motion, as the United Kingdom car is run over by the European Union railway train. / This is because the UK needs their trade more than they need ours so we agreed to a trade deal that favours the European Union rather than us.

Demonstrators say Brexit and austerity have increased support for leaving the UK. / Thousands have demonstrated in Cardiff to call for an independent Wales in what organisers said was the first such march in Welsh history.

Following the UK's departure from the EU, the route is due to run out of money by the end of August.

The Vice-Chancellors of the universities of Swansea, Bangor and Cardiff, and the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth, will be appearing before the Welsh Affairs Committee to answer questions ranging from the loss of EU structural funds for research to their recovery post-pandemic.

Darren Millar, who represents Clwyd West, came under fire from Plaid Cymru Deputy Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth for keeping his EU citizenship, while voting to take it away from others.

Wales and the south west and north east of England will be biggest losers, it calculates - with funds diverted to wealthy London and the south east. / The poorest areas of Britain will lose billions of pounds in public spending after Brexit under government plans, a study is warning – while the richest areas gain.

Tory who likened violent attack on US Capitol to second Brexit referendum campaign is new Welsh leader.

The boss of Toyota's European business has warned that a no-deal Brexit could make its UK plants uncompetitive.

TRADE has nosedived in Wales as a result of Brexit, a shipping operator has revealed.

Wales' automotive industry faces more challenges over future Brexit trade changes, according to experts.

Increased friction in trade and travel with Europe is a product of "political choices", a Welsh minister has said.

The Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) says that trade frictions caused by the UK’s departure from the European Union has “significantly altered” freight traffic between Ireland and Britain.

Mark Drakeford says during Dublin visit that his country has not found itself to be better off after leaving the EU.

British ports expected gridlock after post-Brexit trade rules began on Jan. 1. Instead, some are nearly empty as truckers stay away, reluctant to spend hours waiting for newly required export documents.

Wyn Evans’ family has owned a plot in western Wales for generations, a bucolic expanse where 370 sheep and 80 cows feast on the verdant grasses of undulating hillsides.

Former PM says Westminster government is out of touch and fundamental changes are needed

The government is to apply much less rigorous EU border checks on imports than it initially had planned, after the Brexit transition period finishes at the end of this year.

The breakup of the UK has been described as the “most likely” form of “constitutional watershed” from Brexit according to a politics professor.

Ministers from across the devolved regions have jointly criticised the UK Government for their approach to allocating previous EU funding.

A Welsh farming union say yesterday’s Budget broke a Conservative manifesto and Brexit campaign promise not to cut rural funding.

The UK Government is set to break its promises to match the funding nations and regions of the UK received before Brexit, Whitehall sources have warned.

HMRC wants a suitable location close to where Welsh Government will carry out checks on animals, plants and products of animal origin.

The UK Government’s approach to Brexit trade policy and negotiations protocol is causing “potentially irreparable damage” to Wales’ ports, researchers have said.

The UK must be open to Wales voting to quit the union, a Welsh Government report has said.

The government has set out a plan to overhaul EU laws copied over after Brexit - a move it says will cut unnecessary "red tape" for businesses.

In a strongly-worded joint statement, the two nations said the planned Turing Scheme was a ‘lesser imitation of the real thing’.

Proposals due to be published on Thursday by the UK Government will see powers in at least 70 policy areas previously controlled by the EU flow instead to Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast

The British government is planning to withhold power to control state aid from Scotland and Wales when the Brexit transition ends, the Financial Times reported.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), within the last quarter of 2022, the UK imported about £33billion more than it exported to the EU. / This is the worst performance of the UK export trade balance since records began in 1997. / This is a shocking testimony that Brexit has caused fundamental deep-rooted damage to British exports.

Lorry traffic through Holyhead, the UK's second largest port, has fallen to about one-third of its usual capacity, port operator Stena has said.

UKIP's ruling body has agreed to campaign against devolution in Wales, calling for a poll on the future of the National Assembly for Wales.

Labour’s Andy Dunbobbin said a “perfect storm” of the Ukraine war, Brexit and the Covid pandemic had caused him to propose a rise in the local policing levy. ‌​‌‌​​​‌‍‌​‌​‌​​

Levelling-up promise broken by government. / The UK government's replacement for the EU's regional development funding leaves regions billions of pounds worse off, devolved administrations have said.

Celtic Routes due to run out of money at the end of August. / "As a direct result of Brexit, there will be no continuation of the Ireland Wales Cooperation Fund." / "Celtic Routes has been one of the most successful Projects that has ever crossed my desk."

We are a pro-EU grassroots campaign group based in The Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, campaigning for a #PeoplesVote and to #StopBrexit.

BORDER checks between Scotland, England and Wales could be required because of varying food standards after Brexit, academics have warned.

Post-Brexit trade frictions have led to ferry freight flows between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland dropping by 29% in the first half of 2021.

Vote Leave whistleblower claims Brexiteers in UK government ‘hate’ Welsh and Scots.

Vaughan Gething claims Wales will be £1bn worse over the next three years, after the UK Government announced a package to replace funding previously allocated by the European Union, before Brexit.

A 22 per cent rise in support would have been due in the next EU budget.

Bill, set to become law after concessions on devolved nations, ‘act of constitutional sabotage’.

Wales is being hardest hit by the post Brexit loss of EU Structural Funds, latest figures have shown.

Wales is being increasingly bypassed as Irish-French sea connections reach 44 with a new terminal in the ferry port of Dunkirk.

THE Welsh Government has accused the Tories of “levelling down” their nation after the UK Government confirmed it will receive less than one-seventh of the funding it would have gotten from the EU.

Wales is to launch a new international learning exchange programme following the UK government’s decision to withdraw from Erasmus after Brexit.

Welsh health officials have said that preparations for a pandemic stalled in the run-up to coronavirus and that systems in place were too complex, as bereaved families said their loved ones “didn’t stand a chance”.

Welsh university bosses travel to Westminster on Wednesday to tell MPs that replacement European funding post-Brexit needs an "imaginative approach".

A Wales-based drugs manufacturer has been forced to move to Ireland because of Brexit, it has been claimed.

In an exclusive interview, Jeremy Miles says he wants a frank discussion about Brexit’s hit to the economy – and calls for far greater devolution for Wales.

Wales’ role in UK-EU relations has greatly diminished since Brexit, with open democratic debate replaced by diktat and decisions made in the shadows, MSs warned.

A number of jobs in Wales' automotive industry could be lost due to a lack of clarity over a post-Brexit trade deal, one company's chief executive has said.

A Welsh bus company has warned that a dearth of drivers is causing problems for the industry.

The boss of a Welsh food distribution company is calling for a special dispensation for workers from Europe to come to work in pubs, restaurants and hotels.

Businesses in Wales have revealed the problems they say they are facing because of Brexit.

The Tap It Out cycling club will now have to close after paying the fee.

The EU’s share of Wales’ export market has risen from 58% to 60%, despite a reduced dependence on the EU and opening up export markets with the rest of the world being a stated objective of the Brexit project.

Major reforms to farm subsidies in Wales will not be brought in until 2025, the rural affairs minister says.

One of the UK’s leading farmer representative bodies is calling for Article 50 – which set the original deadline for the country to leave the EU – to be revoked altogether.

A leading politician has slammed the Conservatives over the HGV lorry driver shortage and claimed that Brexit has played a large role in it.

THE Welsh Government has called on the UK and Irish governments to work with it to resolve the "disproportionate impacts" of Brexit on ports in Wales.

The Welsh Government plans to take the UK government to court over a new law that sets the rules of trade between different UK nations after Brexit.

WALES’ climate minister has accused the UK Government of treachery as the row continues over how the country’s EU funding will be replaced.

A Welsh Government minister who has family in Ukraine has slammed Boris Johnson as a “sick, pompous narcissist” after he compared the struggle of the people of Ukraine against invasion to the UK’s vote for Brexit.

The Welsh Government says the Shared Prosperity Fund is a broken promise because it means Wales will get hundreds of millions of pounds less than it received from the EU.

The Welsh Government has officially shifted its position on Brexit. It will now primarily argue for the UK to stay in the EU, rather than for its previous proposals for leaving with a deal on the single market and customs union which it said would protect Welsh jobs, prosperity and security.

While Brexit deliberation, equivocation and disinformation has come back to bite the two big parties, Wales is ready throw open the doors of our future and take our seat at the table.

Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed a proposed new bill which will protect Welsh farmers from being undercut by food trade deals which do not meet environmental and animal welfare standards.

Economy Minister Vaughan Gething has accused the UK Government of losing Wales millions of pounds and thousands of job opportunities through mismanagement of its own post-Brexit regional aid programme.

Money that would be used to improve healthcare is being spent "wastefully" due to UK ministers' handling of Brexit, the Welsh health minister has said.

Senedd members have rejected a post-Brexit law on trade in the UK after claims it would "neuter" devolution.

All four Welsh police forces are sending officers to the county as part of a mutual aid scheme.

Two major ports in Wales saw trade plummet by 30 per cent in 2021 as a result of post-Brexit changes in the way freight is moved, a ferry operator has said.

Dozens of ferry routes avoiding Welsh ports have been established between Ireland and mainland Europe over the past year because of Brexit, Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.

Numerous new ferry routes avoiding Welsh ports have been established between Ireland and mainland Europe over the past year because of Brexit, Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.

Ian Davies, boss of Stena Line’s UK ports, said Holyhead and Fishguard have both been affected.

The Welsh government has warned that post-Brexit trading patterns threaten the viability of the country's Irish Sea ports.

The UK Government says it’s working to avoid further “rigmarole” and Irish Sea red tape after it was revealed that some Welsh-bound products are having to be shipped via a 1,400-mile three-state detour following Brexit.

The Welsh seafood industry needs urgent help to survive Brexit disruption at ports, the environment minister has warned.

Many cockles and mussels producers in Wales have been told they cannot continue exporting to the EU because the water quality is not good enough.

Coles, Da Mhile, In the Welsh Wind and Penderyn distilleries awarded label in scheme brought in to replace EU version.

Proposals denounced as 'power grab' by Scottish National Party.

First minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, and Scotland's deputy first minister, Shona Robinson, will be among the Celtic leaders in attendance at the first meeting of its kind.

Whether there is a Brexit deal or not, the Scottish and UK governments are heading into another constitutional standoff with legislation to set up an "internal market" passing through Westminster. What is the latest row all about?

Fishing has been one of the key sticking points in talks over a future UK/EU trade deal.

Wales voted for Brexit by the same margin as the UK overall, 52 to 48 per cent, in sharp contrast to Northern Ireland and Scotland. / There is evidence that disproportionate support for Leave among the 21 per cent of Welsh voters who were born in England tipped the vote for Leave in Wales.

Campaigning to ensure that Britain remains in the EU as a full & active member.

Wrexham Lager can’t deliver to the Republic of Ireland because of Brexit, the firm has announced.

More than £1bn of EU structural funds have been invested in schemes across Wales, Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford today confirmed.

A Tory website has published an article calling for the abolition of the Senedd because the party can’t win elections in Wales.

Wales’ Education Minister has unveiled a new international exchange programme for Wales, to replace the Erasmus+ programme which the UK Government decided to leave after Brexit.

The decision by an automotive business to close its site due to uncertainty surrounding Brexit was described as the “the tremor that will lead to the Brexit earthquake” in the Welsh Assembly today.

A Welsh politics professor has said that “Brexit has devoured its own children” after the Conservative party lost four Prime Ministers since the vote in 2016.

FUW President Glyn Roberts has described Brexit as a “mess” and says the exit from the EU is one of the factors responsible for the hardships now being faced by farmers across Wales.

Plaid Cymru has expressed serious concerns over the potential impact of the planned application of full Brexit border checks from the autumn.

It is easier for the EU to import lamb from New Zealand than from Wales because of Brexit, MPs have been told.

There has been a call for vets from abroad to apply for jobs in Wales after the numbers available to carry out the key role slumped after Brexit.

A prominent Irish politician has said there is “more to come” amid Wales being increasingly bypassed by Irish-French sea connections.

Anglesey voted by 50.9% for Brexit but the island’s councillors have been warned that the vote could result in choppy waters ahead including cuts to public services.

Ellie Newis reviews two of the flagship free trade agreements that were supposed to reignite the UK economy.

“Only a total rejection of Brexit lies can fix broken Westminster politics,” Plaid Cymru Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts MP will today say in a keynote speech at the party’s annual conference.

Stena Line, the owners of two Welsh Ports, have said that more work needs to be done to iron out “major issues” following Brexit.

The former First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones rejects claims from right-wing politicians and commentators that the closure of the steelworks is down to net-zero policies and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Brexit and the Conservative government who he says have done nothing to meaningfully save British steel since the referendum in 2016.