British proposal to involve Stormont assembly in backstop alternative knocked back by EU.

The Europe unit which had led negotiations for a Brexit deal with Brussels has been disbanded by Boris Johnson.

Chief negotiator Olly Robbins will quit his Brexit role this summer.

The course of Brexit was set in the hours and days after the 2016 referendum. / It was at 6:22 a.m. on June 24, 2016 — 59 minutes before the official tally was unveiled — that the European Council sent its first “lines to take” to the national governments that make up the EU.

Top civil servant expected to leave government role after briefing new prime minister.

Leading Brexiteer Michael Gove ‘honest’ about UK’s struggle outside the EU in confidential meeting.

“We negotiated a trade deal and instead of eliminating barriers, they created them," Michel Barnier said.