Even voices on the Right acknowledge this fact, says Paul Vallely. / THERE have been so many U-turns recently that you might be forgiven for having missed this one. The Daily Telegraph ran a piece at the weekend headlined: “Project Fear was right all along.”

The Prime Minister's poor post-Brexit trade deals show the desperation of a charlatan who sold the country a pup, writes Kevin Maguire.

Liz Truss has told six MPs she will not answer their questions in Parliament next week because they want to ask about the problems facing British exporters trading with Europe. I’ve led a cross-party group to tell Liz that sticking her head in the sand is just not good enough.

Saturday 20 February was the 50th day since Boris Johnson’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into effect. Anyone expecting it to settle all questions, or even most of the details, of how we will do business with the EU from now on will be mightily disappointed.

Anyone in the EU who has endured Boris Johnson’s serial dishonesty would need a heart of stone not to gloat at his current difficulties. A prime minister who signed an international treaty thinking he could break it when it suited him was never likely to be a very effective enforcer of coronavirus restrictions with his team in 10 Downing Street.

This reshuffle will make little difference: the country is going nowhere as the PM leads us further down an economic dead end.

Boris Johnson’s new trade secretary will be tasked with negotiating as many new trade deals as possible. Here are some fault-lines expected to emerge over the coming months.

The lucrative UK/US trade deal is dead - so will it Liz Truss now press ahead with ripping up parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol?

Trade secretary Kemi Badenoch has taken a swipe at ex-PMs Boris Johnson and Liz Truss for setting public deadlines in trade negotiations.

A billionaire former Conservative donor has urged Rishi Sunak to come clean on Brexit. / Speaking to the I, he said he would consider backing the party again if the PM renegotiated Britain’s trade deal with the European Union.

Prime minister called the claim ‘fake news’ - but leaked email to Foreign Office staff confirmed it.

Johnson’s administration made promises over Northern Ireland deal it knew were unworkable, former PM tells MPs.

Boris Johnson’s plans to tear up post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland have come under fierce attack from Washington, with senior congressmen on both sides of the US political divide warning the “irresponsible” move is a threat to peace in the province.

Trade secretary says scrapping protections ‘vital for giving us the freedom and flexibility’ to sign deals.

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.

Chlorinated chicken is just the start. The government intends to rip up food standards, public services and public protections.

PM’s remarks come as Liz Truss insists it’s the role of business, not ministers, to resolve such problems.

Liz Truss had described the deal with Japan as a "landmark moment for Britain" that would boost trade by billions of pounds.

Vote Leave chief Matthew Elliott, who is credited with several successful political crusades, is on the Free Market Forum's advisory board

As part of efforts to maintain the Good Friday Agreement and make sure there is no border in the sea or on the island of Ireland, the Windsor Framework was devised. One aspect of this will see “Not for EU” labelling required on British food products sold throughout the UK.

Britons must look at themselves calmly and honestly, recognizing the tough times that lie ahead and the changes needed to get the country back on track. Unfortunately, the country's political leaders remain unwilling to treat voters like grown-ups.

Times must be hard in London: Brexit Britain wants to rejoin Europe’s political community.

Economist Duncan Weldon and the New Statesman’s polling expert explore how Brexit and austerity have damaged the UK economy and set the stage for Liz Truss’s “mismanagement.”

Since the EU Referendum proposed and led by former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, on the relationship with the EU, Britain has not experienced political stability. This headed to economic stagnation, inflation, high unemployment, frustration, and pessimism among British citizens about the future.

EU law is not bad for our health and safety – unfortunately, the same cannot be said of our government.

UK government set to pitch extension of ‘grace periods’ rather than triggering Article 16.

Liz Truss’s pledge to review and possibly scrap all EU-derived laws by 2023 is a big threat to environmental and consumer protection, even where those measures have been put into Scots law.

Private equity veteran Guy Hands says Boris Johnson ‘threw the country and the NHS under the bus’.

As Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to depart Downing Street, tossed from office by his own party, his legacy — the opening lines of his eventual obituary — will call him the man who “got Brexit done.” / So how is that going? What can be said about the post-Brexit Britain that Johnson is leaving behind?

Many in the arts will look at 2022 with trepidation. There are still many issues with the Brexit deal from 12 months ago.

Thousands of people say their rights have been compromised despite government promises.

There are calls for the new Brexit minister Liz Truss to visit a village near Ashford where truckers keep getting lost on their way to a lorry park.

Continuing the letter to Jacob Rees-Mogg, reminding him – he seems to need reminding – of the many new opportunities created by Brexit.

Cross-party committee says labour shortages caused primarily by leaving EU will shrink UK food production unless dealt with.

European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic said the bloc was "united" in its opposition to the UK position.

European Union and U.K. attempts to jump-start negotiations over the post-Brexit trading relationship in Northern Ireland have so far failed to make any progress, and diplomats see little chance for any substantial progress until they get past a key election scheduled for May.

George Eustice lambasts Liz Truss for arbitrarily ‘setting the clock against us’ and calls on top civil servant to quit.

Deal could lower welfare of the population and shrink GDP.

Government has not left enough time for promised scrutiny, ministers admit.

The UK’s much-vaunted post-Brexit trade deals will only increase the country’s GDP by a minuscule amount over the next 15 years, a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) reveals today.

Liz Truss’s government has ditched the dedicated role of Brexit opportunities minister, confirming that Jacob Rees-Mogg would not be replaced in the job.

“Australian Brexit” used to be an upbeat euphemism for a “no deal” Brexit outcome. Now, Australia promises a far more profound insight into the true nature of Brexit.

Brexit-induced labour shortages are going to be a limiting factor in the pursuit of growth, growth, growth

One of the most contentious parts of the torturous post-Brexit trade negotiations between the UK and Europe was the dispute-resolution process. Now it’s being tested.

Less than two weeks after her government plunged the markets into crisis with a disastrous budget, Prime Minister Liz Truss used her closing speech at the Conservative Party conference to blame the meltdown on a nebulous anti-growth coalition.

The final round of trade negotiations between the UK and the EU begins on Tuesday and runs for the rest of the week.

Britain will spend 705 million pounds on border infrastructure to help keep trade flowing after its transition deal with the European Union expires at the end of the year, Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove said on Sunday.

Ministers have approved the emergency use of neonicotinoids against the advice of their own experts in a move branded ‘unacceptable’ by environmental groups.

Securing a trade deal with the US was sold at the time as being one of the most significant benefits of leaving the EU.

Ministers are portraying themselves as victims of a deal they created for Northern Ireland. A classic blame-shifting strategy.

With its economy in tatters, England is not having its finest hour. It is a time of transition for the United Kingdom... /

Tokyo is the biggest winner of the UK’s accession to the CPTPP.

British companies trading with Europe will have to absorb a post-Brexit bureaucracy burden and fill in an extra 215m customs declarations at a cost of about £7bn a year, according to government officials.

Britain’s economy is forecast to shrink by 0.4% in 2023, more than any other in the Group of Seven richest nations, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Britain is the only G-7 member whose economy has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.

Mark Simmonds, director of policy at the British Ports Association has said Brexit is responsible for delays at Dover, just hours after Liz Truss blamed the French authorities.

“When your own government screws you over, forgets about you, and essentially makes you out to be a traitor to your own country, British in Europe were there for us," one Brit in the EU has said.

Watchdog to finally get teeth to block chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef imports

Canadian PM suggests London lacks ‘bandwidth’ to get agreement finalised by end of year.

Promises that exiting the EU would leave the UK better placed to protect the environment lie in tatters.

The Taoiseach Micheal Martin has called for a fresh round of UK-EU talks on the Protocol rather than the UK taking unilateral action to change the post-Brexit deal.

First came Brexit. Now comes Britain’s bonfire of European laws. / Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is pushing ahead with a contentious plan to remove all remaining European Union laws from Britain’s statute book by the end of 2023, despite opponents’ claims that the move is rash and unworkable.

Six years into the Brexit disaster, the malevolent anti-democratic forces who did so much to facilitate the success of the vote to leave the EU in June 2016 are finally where they always wanted to be: running the government...

RURAL affairs ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland have written to the UK Government raising concerns about the impact of the Australia trade deal on domestic farmers and producers.

European media responded with shock and disbelief this morning after a minister in Northern Ireland ordered to end checks on food in his country and the UK declared it won’t do anything about it.

Dominic Raab’s departure takes us closer to a wipe-out of five right-wing “brains” who authored a tract published in 2012 under the title “Britannia Unchained”.

"Patrick Minford is such a marginal view even within academia. His views are Economics equivalent of ‘flat earth.’"

The government has promised to push for an end to tariffs on UK-made ice cream vans during trade negotiations with the US, Australia and Japan.

Senior Tory Simon Hoare tells i that ripping up Brexit deal in a cost of living crisis would not be ‘grown-up statecraft’.

Several large-scale smuggling incidents show that EU concerns over the operation of the Northern Ireland Protocol are not theoretical, it added.

The EU has accused the U.K. of failing to comply with its post-Brexit obligations toward EU nationals in Britain.

The EU has launched fresh legal action against the UK over its enforcement of post-Brexit trading rules in Northern Ireland.

The EU has said it is launching legal action against the UK over its plans to rip up a key Brexit agreement.

Observers suggest PM’s failure could spell end of ‘wishful thinking’ of a sovereign Britain going its own way. / Six years on from the Brexit referendum, continental observers have become used to Westminster meltdowns – but many see in the latest cataclysm the inevitable finale of a project that was always divorced from reality.

European capitals have lost trust, says Irish minister – as Keir Starmer accuses PM of ’wrecking ball’ approach.

The European Commission won't rule out suspending the EU-UK trade deal if the UK approves a draft bill that unilaterally overrides parts of the Brexit agreement.

The EU is expected to launch legal action against the UK government on Wednesday over its decision to scrap some post-Brexit trade arrangements.

The EU has announced new legal action against the UK government over its plans to scrap parts of the post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland.

Joao Vale de Almeida, the bloc’s ambassador to the UK, said it is unhelpful to ‘keep agitating the issue’ of triggering Article 16.

An EU official confirmed to i that Brussels would not engage in further talks as long as Liz Truss’s Northern Ireland Protocol Bill continued its passage through Parliament.

The words for chaotic instability might change from country to country but the reaction is uniform across Europe to Britain’s politics.

There are serious doubts about the government's justification for unilaterally overriding the Northern Ireland Protocol, legal experts have told MPs.

Lawyers reject Liz Truss’s claim that UK is able to dump parts of treaty with EU without its agreement.

Income per-head forecast to fall by 6 per cent – just 2 per cent less than under a no-deal departure.

"UK trade has shrunk since Brexit while EU thrives," the paper reports.

Full Fact however points out that the analysis was relative to 2018 when the UK was a member of the EU, and neither had a free trade agreement with Japan.

Fed-up farmers broke off from the busy harvest schedule to travel to Westminster today (Wednesday 8 July) and tell Boris Johnson’s government “don’t destroy Britain’s world-class farming industry by striking cheap food trade deals”.

Tory frontunner will be ‘empty chaired’ by NFU – as enviornment secretary reveals ‘tensions’ with Truss.

Just a tiny fraction of England’s farms have received payment under the government’s sustainable farming incentive.

NFU says British cattle and sheep farmers will lose out if Australian producers are given tariff-free access.

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.

‘People in Ghana are very angry. They do not understand why Britain is acting like a bully’

The need to work together on Putin, China and extreme weather mean even the Leaver in No 10 now wants closer ties with Europe.

Boris Johnson chronically confuses culture and economics of affair called Brexit.

“I don’t want my daughters to grow up in a world where they need a visa or permit to work in Europe," she once said.

Liz Truss only became foreign secretary as part of Boris Johnson's major cabinet reshuffle in September, taking over from Dominic Raab. She had been international trade secretary before that, with post-Brexit deals the focus of her brief.

Tory former Environment Secretary says UK ‘gave away far too much for far too little in return’.

The UK promises to “fix” the Northern Ireland protocol with unilateral legislation. This will be a major step backwards in trying to resolve genuine practical problems under the protocol.

Government’s Brexit push to bring back Winston Churchill’s favourite champagne measure met with indifference.

Bruno Le Maire is the French opposite number to chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.

Two years since Britain left the EU, Brexit is still very much at the top of the news agenda with lorry queues lengthening at Dover as exporting firms struggle with red tape.

The resignation of Brexit negotiator David Frost shows just how hard it will be to keep the Conservative Party united.

The economic costs of Brexit were masked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the crisis in Ukraine. Now the effects have become clear.

George Eustice and Liz Truss have reportedly rowed over a proposed trade deal between the UK and Australia.

George Eustice pulls no punches as he lays into the former prime minister in parliament, lambasting Ms Truss's achievements as international trade secretary.

'...it is a good time to take stock of the Gibraltar strand of Brexit and how that intertwines with the Brexit saga and, ultimately, to the extent that it does represent a certain kind of completion, a good time to take stock of Brexit itself.'

Cabinet Minister Michael Gove has defended his plans for new post-Brexit border infrastructure after Labour said the government was unprepared.

Businesses will discover details of customs regime after Brexit on Monday.

Rishi Sunak accidentally votes against government, but ministers see off attempt to uphold food standards in post-Brexit trade deals.

Campaigners say claims by Liz Truss' Department for International Trade about UK-Japan trade deal benefits should be taken with "pinch of salt".

Former Cabinet minister George Eustice says too much has been given away in the name of free trade.

The financier and former Tory donor says leaving the EU was a plan by the rich to make themselves richer and the poor poorer.

Former Secretary of State Peter Hain has backed claims the Prime Minister is guilty of endangering the peace process in pursuit of Brexit.

Ireland’s European commissioner criticises decision by DUP minister affecting food and animal imports.

‘Your boss has conceded the whole kingdom’, Australian negotiator said to have told Liz Truss.

As the UK-Australia trade deal comes into force, those close to the negotiations reflect on their dramatic — and farcical — climax.

The system for checks on agri-foods at Northern Ireland's sea ports is "not fit for purpose", according to an audit carried out by the European Commission.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Financial Times political editor George Parker about the continuing effects Brexit has had on U.K. politics and the economy.

Many Conservative party members will be wondering where they go from here. / There is talk of damage limitation and trying to save as many seats as possible in the next election.

‘Our departure from the European Union necessitates a re-thinking of the British state’. / Jacob Rees-Mogg has urged the next prime minister to slash back the government’s role as a prize of Brexit, suggesting it should not “deliver certain functions at all”.

Following a weekend of utter chaos at the Channel crossing, James O'Brien reminds listeners how the Tories insisted Brexit would not bring about these very issues.

The U.K.’s hopes of a swift trade deal with Japan will ultimately rest on a successful resolution to the main talks between London and the European Union on a new trading arrangement, some experts say.

LONDON — Britain and Japan were unable to announce a new trade deal Friday after two days of intense high-level political negotiations in London.

The government of Jersey has issued almost 50 additional licences to French boats to fish in its waters, in an apparent effort to stave off threats of sanctions from Paris.

Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s deputy prime minister, has accused the British government of risking the break-up of the United Kingdom and making “shocking” blunders over Northern Ireland.

Ivan Rogers, former UK ambassador to the EU, says prime minister will think ‘history was going his way’ if Donald Trump is re-elected

Only Spain has signed agreement, leaving artists mired in ‘mountains of red tape’ – with pressure on new Brexit minister Liz Truss to change course.

MEETINGS of key bodies set up to “smooth” the relationship between the EU and UK after Brexit are taking place “rarely”, a new research report has warned.

Special zones are Boris Johnson’s flagship economic recovery policy.

Liz Truss urged to sign off deals quickly to spare African states high tariffs once Brexit transition period ends.

Ex-US Treasury chief fears for UK becoming ‘submerging market’. / “Between Brexit, how far the Bank of England got behind the curve and now these fiscal policies, I think Britain will be remembered for having pursuing the worst macroeconomic policies of any major country in a long time.”

Bill hands ‘breath-taking’ powers to ministers, warns Hansard Society. / Boris Johnson’s legal justification for tearing up his agreement with the EU on post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland has been branded “hopeless” by the government’s former chief lawyer.

Dave Sharma says ‘megaphone diplomacy’ was behind British government suggesting Dan Tehan was a novice.

Prime Minister Liz Truss has admitted that there are no hopes "in the short to medium term" for a transatlantic trade pact with the United States as she prepared for a meeting with Joe Biden.

Manufacturers based in Boris Johnson’s new freeports will not be able to enjoy the full benefits if they are exporting to a series of countries with which the UK has signed post-Brexit trade deals.

Prime minister will not discuss trade with Joe Biden in meeting on Wednesday.

Prime minister concedes negotiations will not begin in the "short to medium term" as she flies to New York.

Liz Truss has called on the EU to scrap "border control and paperwork" on Irish Sea trade, setting up a clash with Brussels over the Northern Ireland Protocol.

While Brexit continues to deliver more empty shelves for consumers, more carnage to our food and fishing sectors and more chaos to the people of Northern Ireland, the eternal sunshine of our international trade secretary’s spotless mind continues to deliver more doses of what seems like good news for faithful Leavers.

Liz Truss has conceded negotiations for a post-Brexit free trade deal with the US will not restart for years as she flew to New York ahead of a meeting with Joe Biden.

Foreign secretary Liz Truss is facing a backlash from Australian wine producers during her trip Down Under, amid complaints that any benefits from a post-Brexit trade deal will be more than wiped out by proposed changes to UK taxes on alcohol.

It was long touted as one of the biggest prizes of Brexit, but Liz Truss has finally been forced to drop the Government’s plan to strike a free trade deal with the US.

The Foreign Secretary, who backed Remain, now shamelessly promotes the myth that leaving the EU has been good for Britain.

THE UK Government failed to heed warnings over the damage Brexit would do to Scotland’s food and farming sectors, despite “clearly being aware of the consequences”, a Scottish minister has said.

Australia’s ABC News said the comments were greeted “with a mixture of disbelief and laughter” in Canberra.

The frontrunner for Tory Party leader is known for taking maximalist positions and playing to her base. That approach would backfire on Northern Ireland.

Liz Truss is refusing to answer questions about the cross-Channel trading crisis sparked by Brexit, says a stinging attack by six opposition parties.

Brexit’s Northern Ireland deal needs the same hard-headed pragmatism that secured Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release.

Trade secretary held talks with Institute for Economic Affairs that were on transparency register until being reclassified as personal.

Former PM’s disastrous tax-cutting plan piled an extra £91m on the UK’s payments to the bloc, Treasury documents show.

Trade secretary agrees to set up a commission to oversee trade deals amid growing concern over chlorinated chicken imports.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will replace Lord Frost as the UK's lead negotiator with the EU in post-Brexit talks.

Not satisfied, though, the U.K.'s conservatives may look to replace her with... Boris Johnson.

Taxes cut on birds’ eggs, raw hides, fur skins and ultra-strong spirits – but UK does not export them anyway.

MPs have written to Liz Truss demanding parliamentary scrutiny of the government's post-Brexit trade deal with Australia.

"I have three priorities for our economy: growth, growth and growth." / Yet several reports say one significant factor to have impacted negatively on Britain's growth and economy — also creating a barrier to future performance — is Brexit itself.

Labour has warned Liz Truss against signing a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia before there is sufficient parliamentary scrutiny.

International trade secretary tells PM and chancellor plans risk smuggling and damage to UK reputation.

International trade minister Liz Truss is reportedly preparing a “big concession package” to secure a trade deal with Donald Trump and the United States.

PRO-EU comments have come back to haunt Foreign Secretary Liz Truss after she was tasked with overseeing the UK’s relations with the EU post-Brexit.

If other countries don’t trust us to stick to what we agreed, it makes it harder to strike new deals in the future.

The imaginary enemy is back.

Liz Truss becoming Prime Minister is the end of what little hope remained that the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill would be scrapped.

The men behind Trussonomics and Brexit, the two great man-made catastrophes of recent years, are to be honoured for their ‘great work’.

Consensus crumbles after Liz Truss reportedly sought to make the cheese a part of negotiations.

The former chancellor also described Liz Truss as a 'Pino' - Prime Minister in name only on the Andrew Neil Show.

MEPs urged the European Commission to have clear procedures allowing the EU to take retaliatory measures including sanctions against the UK if it refuses to implement the terms of the Brexit agreement.

'This is all so pointless. We are creating a vast customs bureaucracy, with costs passed on to the consumer'

Ministers are making “misleading” claims about the costs and red tape facing performers trying to tour the EU after Brexit, a parliamentary inquiry says.

Rural affairs ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland write to the UK Government expressing their concerns.

Agreement will clear parliament on Wednesday under obscure behind-closed-doors process – with no debate, despite a pledge.

The Morrison government has baulked at expanding a new post-Brexit trade pact to include visa-free work and travel between Australia and the United Kingdom, arguing any special deal that circumvented existing immigration caps could be deeply unpopular in both countries.

Government plans to override parts of the Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland have passed their first hurdle in Parliament.

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.

British farming will struggle to compete if zero-tariff trade on lamb and beef goes ahead with a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia, the president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has said.

Truss’s relations with US president already strained by her threats as foreign secretary to rip up post-Brexit trading arrangements in NI.

PM admits talks are not even taking place and plays down hopes from Brexiters that they could start ‘in the short to medium term’.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has responded to UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s assertion that the legislation to set aside aspects of the Northern Ireland protocol is “not a big deal”.

With a potential trade war looming, Conservatives are stuck in an ever-more destructive disagreement over what Britain should look like outside the EU.

The prime minister is expected to give ministers powers to override parts of the Northern Ireland protocol.

THE European Commission (EC) has urged the UK to “engage” over the Northern Ireland Protocol as the Welsh first minister hit out at Westminster plans to override the Brexit agreement.

Brussels is set to reveal details of action despite ministers’ insistence the the Northern Ireland protocol plans do not break international law.

Northern Ireland's Assembly will meet on Monday after a successful petition to recall members back to Stormont.

Trade secretary says government ‘absolutely’ wants to remove border checks agreed by Boris Johnson in Brexit deal.

'The Brexiters have no more idea in private than they do in public about what they are doing. Predictions based upon their concealed intent project on to them a competence they simply don’t possess.'

Having left the largest internal market in the world, the search is on to give the impression that there are many new trade partnerships out there to compensate for the already very real loss of cross-Channel trade. / At the moment, Britain’s trade with the CPTPP countries is less than our trade with Germany alone.

The collapse of Liz Truss’s authority is the logical conclusion of the anti-EU cult that has wrecked Britain’s economy over the last six years. / When asked about Brexit, Carney managed to sound diplomatic while also lobbing a hand grenade. “Put it this way,” he said. “In 2016 the British economy was 90% the size of Germany’s. Now it is less than 70%.”

Boris Johnson had previously promised to "fix" issues around visas so UK musicians could tour the continent permit-free.

An open letter from joint CEOs Miriam Turner and Hugh Knowles to the Department of Trade on possible trade deals with the US.

Liz Truss has been accused of refusing to answer questions about post-Brexit trade with Europe at the despatch box.

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

Britain first backed Brexit in a populist vote — albeit narrowly — a foolish move taking a slice of Britain’s economic strength. / Empty words and false and exaggerated claims combined with a dose of nationalism to tip the balance.

'However, Britain’s current political and economic prospects look grim. To say this is not to be unreasonably pessimistic, but simply to face facts.'

The first major free trade agreement signed by Britain after Brexit has been branded a failure.

Negotiators hope an agreement can be struck in the first quarter of next year.

Britain's trade agreement with Japan - the first major such deal announced after Brexit - has been branded a failure as new figures show exports have DROPPED.

Trade Secretary Liz Truss is hoping a win for Stilton would leave Britain in better stead after leaving the EU.

The UK government has made a last-ditch decision to overrule its official post-Brexit trade advisers to extend protections on certain steel products.

PRIME Minister Liz Truss has said a post-Brexit trade deal with the US could be years away despite her predecessor Boris Johnson championing it as a big Brexit bonus.

Old "Project Fear" scare stories from the 2016 Remain campaign about masses of customs paperwork and increased costs for traders, as well as restrictions on immigration for vital sectors, are becoming reality.

“This period of not even acknowledging the EU is over” experts say.

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary on Tuesday described the economic situation in Britain as a "car crash" caused by the country's vote to leave the European Union in 2016.

Trade Secretary urged to exclude US cars.

Scotland’s salmon farmers have written to Conservative Party leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak ahead of tomorrow’s Perth hustings to highlight government action needed to support growth of the sector.

SCOTLAND can expect Liz Truss's "hard-line" approach to the EU if she becomes prime minister, a Tory MP has suggested.

George Freeman tells HuffPost UK Boris Johnson must not "sell out" manifesto pledge as MPs prepare for fresh potential rebellions.

Scots won’t be ‘fooled’ by Tory promises, says Nicola Sturgeon’s party.

United opposition would ‘send a powerful message to our European friends,’ says MP Ian Blackford — as ministers insist there’s no reason to change timetable.

A UK cabinet row on allowing tariff free imports from Australia has exposed fears that a trade deal will destroy Scottish farming and open up another front in the independence debate.

As small businesses crumble, shelves get emptier and the care-worker shortage intensifies, life outside the EU is having a dire effect on many of us. Why aren’t politicians talking about it?

Labour’s leader is perceived to be sitting on his hands over Europe. But private discussions with European leaders tell a different story.

Sterling's drop at the time of former British Prime Minister Liz Truss's failed budget plans meant the British taxpayer stumped up tens of millions of pounds extra to fund Brexit divorce bill payments to the European Union, paid in euros, new figures show.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson met Indian leader Narendra Modi in April and set an ambitious target to sign the free trade agreement (FTA) by Diwali later this month. / Recently, Braverman said that she had doubts regarding the deal as it would increase immigration to the UK even as Truss is eager to sign an agreement with India by Diwali, on October 24.

Ahead of another vote in the Tory leadership race, former chancellor Rishi Sunak pledges to get rid of those pesky EU regulations and unleash Britain’s potential. Where have we heard that before?

The new Prime Minister was decisively on the side of those who claimed that the country would have a better future outside the EU.

Consumer groups and Lib Dem MP Layla Moran call on chains to follow Waitrose's lead ahead of US-UK trade deal.

‘One of the biggest blows to our productivity – and a self-inflicted one – was leaving Europe’s single market,’ says Michael Day.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has warned that the UK government is going to cause serious damage to its reputation internationally if proceeds with plans to unilaterally change parts of the Northern Ireland protocol as other countries will have reservations about trusting the UK in future treaties.

Small print – revealed by Canberra, but suppressed in London – reveals pledge to protect farmers for 15 years has been dropped.

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak feel bound to talk lower spending to party members, but the former chancellor at least must see the folly of losing billions off our GDP.

Today Liz Truss poured cold water on a potential deal, saying she doesn't foresee any negotiations taking place any time soon.

For a small band of libertarians, Liz Truss’ resignation is the final act in an 11-year project to remake Britain.

As the final rites are played out, Chris Painter assesses the procession of Conservative Premierships since 2010 and their failure to articulate any coherent political project.

Voters were promised better-funded public services and stronger employment rights after Brexit – Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are now offering us the opposite, reports Adam Bienkov.

Liz Truss is campaigning as a committed Brexiter to become Conservative leader. Six years ago, her view was different. ... Her support for an “In” vote was plainly wholehearted. Her analysis was clear and, as events have shown, correct.

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.

Boris Johnson’s plans to shred the Northern Ireland protocol have no basis in law, economics or diplomacy.

The negotiations which will set our relationship with our closest neighbours for the next generation are being rushed in a reckless game of chicken.

Across the world, there is incomprehension at what we have done to ourselves.

Boris Johnson’s Trumpian remarks on the “deep state” will almost certainly have a destructive effect on British democracy.

The spectacular collapse of the pound against the US dollar has shattered the illusion that Britain is entitled in perpetuity to special status among the world elite.

"Project Fear is Project Fact". How do Brexit and Truss's economics affect the North East?

Deep within the Northern Ireland protocol bill, ministers are making a sinister grab for yet more unchecked powers.

A future leader will need to confront Brexiters in the same way Blair faced down the hard left over clause 4.

No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.

There's one thing that the two candidates locked in a bad-tempered battle to be Britain's next prime minister agree on: Brexit is nothing to do with any of the woes facing the UK right now. / The inconvenient truth, as the head of the port of Dover has confirmed, is that Brexit has indeed contributed to the chaos.

The U.K. government has pushed ahead with controversial plans to unilaterally override post-Brexit trade rules, ratcheting up the risk of a trade war as the European Union prepares to take retaliatory legal action.

A post-Brexit deal should make it easier to build supermarkets, avoid tax and sue the UK, US business lobbyists say.

Thousands of British citizens may be waiting for family permits to be able to move to the UK, but the Home Office reportedly rejected freedom of information requests and parliamentary questions on data from the former Brexit select committee chair, Hilary Benn.

Only the reversal of Brexit can start to fix the state three prime ministers have left the country in.

Ministers have scrapped their promise for a post-Brexit ‘bonfire’ of EU-era laws by the end of this year.

A CROSS-party group of MPs has condemned the Government for refusing to spell out the privacy risks in the proposed UK-Japan trade agreement.

Guy Hands says Conservatives are putting country ‘on a path to be sick man of Europe’.

Australian citizens could get freedom of movement rights denied to EU nationals after Brexit, international trade secretary Liz Truss has suggested.

TORY ministers caved in to Australian ministers’ climate demands during talks on a post-Brexit trade deal, according to a leaked government email.

Sir Bob Neill attempts to force Boris Johnson to require parliamentary approval before bringing provisions into force.

A former Tory minister has admitted a Brexit deal he backed at the time is "not actually a very good deal" and people are fuming.

Labour expresses concern as government defeats efforts to enshrine food safety and animal welfare standards in UK law

Liz Truss has hit out at the French authorities for the border chaos, but the government rejected an offer to double the number of passport booths in 2020.

One of the supposed ‘benefits’ of Brexit was the ‘bonfire of Brussels red-tape‘ which was promised by libertarian Brexiteers. Two weeks into the administration of Liz Truss, the new government announced that they were planning to revoke 570 environmental laws which, in order to continue environmental protections, were rolled over from EU law after Brexit.

PM and chancellor say they will not publish projections until late November despite them being ready next week.

Rejecting expertise and skill in favour of loyalty was always going to lead to this.

Conservatism is an enduring and honourable political creed that has been debased and discredited by incompetent extremists.

The new PM will be discarded by the Tory right as soon as she stops serving her political purpose. / It will be years before we can fully account for the impact Brexit has had on the country, but the grave damage it has done to the Conservative Party is already clear. The only question is whether it’s fatal or not.

Former UK diplomat reveals that foreign secretary made dismissive remark in 2019.

Conservative Party ‘drained of all substance and competence’.

Tearing up Northern Ireland protocol ‘will spark trade war, drive up inflation and damage UK influence’, warns senior Tory MP.

But consumers may not be given information about US meat.

European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic said a compromise can still be found.

A survey found that 67% felt the public receives too little information from ministers about trade deals. / More than two-thirds of the UK public feel “left in the dark” about the impact that post-Brexit trade deals struck by the Government will have.

The U.K. will set up a new commission to inform its post-Brexit agricultural policy, bowing to pressure from British farmers and potentially complicating trade negotiations with the U.S.

The UK has ditched plans for a Brexit "bonfire" of retained EU law, with Rishi Sunak being accused of breaking his promises by a former Cabinet minister.

Confidential documents cannot be revealed until five years after a deal is in force.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss just announced the Government’s intention to introduce legislation “in the coming weeks to make changes in the [Northern Ireland] protocol”.

"Around half of the fiscal hole, and the political instability that comes with that, is down to Brexit," John Springford of the Centre for European Reform.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss confirmed on Tuesday that the government intends to introduce legislation to make changes to the Northern Ireland protocol “in the coming weeks.”

Britain’s bonfire of European Union laws has been reduced to embers.

Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), said "we're about to get a lot poorer" due to economic "own goals". / Brexit, slashing investment and Liz Truss's mini-budget are among the "own goals" that have led to the UK's dire financial straits, according to a top economist.

However, disenchantment with Brexit has been one of the most notable trends of 2022 with a feeling that it has not lived up to the promises made at the time of the referendum. / Two thirds or 65% of British people think Brexit has gone badly compared to just 21% who think it has gone well according to an Opinium survey in early December.

Before Brexit most of Britain's seasonal crop pickers came over from eastern Europe.

15 EU trade agreements with third countries, including Canada and Turkey, still not rolled over by Britain with just 50 days until UK leaves post-Brexit transition.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed the foreign minister to lead talks with Europe on Sunday after the resignation of the Brexit minister sent shockwaves through the already troubled London administration.

The UK government has begun what may be its final effort to resolve a dispute over the UK's membership of the EU's €100bn Horizon research programme.

The UK government has not been "even handed" when it comes to resolving the row over the Northern Ireland Protocol, Leo Varadkar has said. /

‘It gives the Australians the ability to say, ‘we’ll dig in – here are our terms, but we’re not going to budge’.

Simon Coveney says new legislation will break international law and damage relations between UK and EU.

Disastrous mini-budget has seen Britain become gag line on the international stage.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is expected to outline plans on Tuesday to legislate at Westminster to override parts of the Irish Sea trade arrangement.

Envoys sidestep ban on discussing drug prices by referring to controversial subject ‘valuing innovation’.

Legislation has been published by the British government this evening which overrides the post-Brexit trade arrangements for Ireland and severely breaches both the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and international law.

Still no deal as new Science and Tech dept head claims Britain has 'global-facing alternative' in the wings.

The UK Government is understood to have told Brussels it will continue with the grace periods relating to the Northern Ireland Protocol.

The British government secretly dropped a series of climate pledges in order to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia, leaked emails appear to show.

London replies to European Commission in a letter setting out Britain’s unilateral decision to carry on with the status quo.

The UK government’s plan to walk away from parts of the Northern Ireland Brexit deal is destroying the repaired relationship with the EU, political leaders and diplomats have said.

The UK is expected to offer Australia a trade deal later on Friday, under which both countries would phase out taxes on imports over 15 years.

Deals to ensure UK can go on trading with non-EU countries after Brexit transition must be laid before parliament by Wednesday.

As Boris Johnson prepares to schmooze Saudi Arabia, Sam Bright reports on the UK’s growing trade relationships with despotic regimes.

A persistent majority of Britons think Brexit was a mistake, one of the UK's leading pollsters said Wednesday, forecasting near-certain defeat for the Conservatives at the next election.

Negotiations hit snag as trade secretary Liz Truss insists on preferential treatment for Britain’s blue cheese makers.

The UK and New Zealand are close to a trade agreement but experts have dismissed it as making little difference to British consumers.

Data obtained by POLITICO shows economic toll on farmers known before key post-Brexit trade talks began.

A bipartisan US congressional delegation is due to meet Irish premier Micheal Martin in Dublin.

‘Current restrictions on European data to stop lightly regulated transfers to the USA, would disappear’

Which? raises alarm after Boris Johnson dumped promised ban on chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef, to strike quickfire agreement with Donald Trump

His admission that “Brexit has failed” shows once again that for Nigel Farage and the populist right, shifting the blame is second nature

A major feature of the 2016 Leave campaign was a refusal to define what, precisely, Brexit would mean.

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator has warned that Brussels will not give in to threats and blackmail, as the furious row over the Northern Irish border took a step closer towards a trade war.

A no-deal Brexit will be grim for patients. Yet gagging orders are being used to keep the truth from coming out.

Mr Johnson told his cabinet this week that leaving the EU without a deal should hold “no fear” for Britain, but was he right?

In the US they call it ‘starving the beast’ – cut taxes and, as revenue decreases, you create irresistible pressure for austerity.

Fresh from scandals and an attempted ousting, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s latest plan is to tear up key parts of a post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland he made himself less than three years ago.

Just seven months after singing its praises, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is attempting to rewrite the Brexit deal he signed with the European Union.

Red tape continues to frustrate small businesses as the hunt for the sunlit uplands goes on.

Liz Truss under pressure to explain why punishing levies being charged - despite announcement that UK-Ghana deal was struck.

The EU’s ambassador to the UK Joao Vale de Almeida urged against taking unilateral action to rewrite the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Allies of UK trade secretary Liz Truss accused of launching an ‘unprovoked attack’ on Dan Tehan on the eve of their meeting.

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.

NI Minister of Agriculture should publish legal advice, says manufacturing body.

As the details of Boris Johnson’s trade deals are unveiled, these two farmers are pessimistic about the post-Brexit future of their industry.

The government's Brexit legislation is not being properly scrutinised because MPs are failing to turn up to parliamentary sessions about it, it has been claimed.

Back in those pre-war, pre-Covid and pre-permacrisis halcyon days of early 2020, the world was the UK food sector’s oyster in terms of post-Brexit trading opportunities.

French president responds to ‘jury’s out’ comments by Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss about key ally.

Britain should become a “Singapore on steroids” economy with low taxes, low regulation and a renewed focus on trade with America after Brexit, according to Sir Martin Sorrell.

Goodbye, food standards. Hello, corporate lobbyists. Why are we doing this, for no real economic benefit?

International delivery firm ParcelHero says August’s £800m fall in EU trade adds to the UK’s economic woes.