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Now the Conservative Party’s reputation for economic competence has cratered, Matthew Gwyther sees businesses getting increasingly politicised.
'Get Brexit done is the biggest delusion of all' - Michael Heseltine launches scathing attack on Boris Johnson.
The reality is that government resources will be tied up on Brexit for the foreseeable future. Brexit will not be done on January 31 2020
'You've still got the main negotiation to happen ... anyone who is telling you it is that simple is conning you' [2 mins]
22/11/2019
Powerful interview from Tony Blair. Should be watched by everyone. Whatever your views about Brexit, we’ve all got to be honest about what’s involved. Boris Johnson is trying to con the British people.
At the last general election, all of you stood on a platform of “getting Brexit done”. / Voters were told in your party’s manifesto that this would “unleash the potential of our whole country” and “transform the UK for the better”.
Boris Johnson & the Rise of Make-Believe
17/06/2021
It is no good offering people a ‘story to believe in’ if it ends in harm – but the Prime Minister does not know any other way, observes Jonathan Lis.
Boris Johnson 'refusing to be honest' about likely damage from Brexit, expert study warns
04/02/2020
Prime minister on course to strike only 'barest of bare bone deals' by end of 2020, think tank concludes - and failing to be upfront about 'trade-offs'.
Boris Johnson has been accused of wanting to “get Brexit done” while ignoring the important details in the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Boris Johnson faces 'biggest Brexit crisis' yet after election and is deceiving voters, former ambassador to the EU warns
26/11/2019
Sir Ivan Rogers condemns 'diplomatic amateurism' that will lead to hugely damaging trade deal – or a crash-out Brexit in a year. / Boris Johnson is deceiving voters by claiming he will “get Brexit done” quickly and hiding the “biggest crisis” yet to come, a former ambassador to the EU is warning.
Boris Johnson hires unelected Cabinet minister for Brexit - a year after 'getting it done'
17/02/2021
Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost will enjoy a seat at Britain's most powerful table overseeing Brexit - a year after the job of Brexit Secretary was abolished for being unnecessary
HuffPost UK learns that No.10 is keen to show that Brexit is 'done' within weeks, despite a year of crunch negotiations ahead.
Conservative manifesto plans mean continued Brexit uncertainty and risk no-deal crash-out at end of 2020, says thinktank.
In historical terms, however, those transgressions will end up being little more than footnotes. Viewed from afar, Johnson’s greatest failing is liable to be what he hoped would be his glorious legacy: Brexit.
Boris Johnson’s real scandal: Brexit
13/07/2022
Not before time, Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the UK’s Conservative Party. The Guardian reports that Johnson’s leadership “toppled under a wave of sleaze allegations and failure to tell the truth.” But his real scandal lies elsewhere — with Brexit.
Brexifornia: Checking out but never leaving
08/06/2020
Brexit will never be over.
After months of closure, Mini-Europe, the outdoor museum at the foot of the Atomium which allows visitors to travel all over Europe in a few hours, has reopened to a different Europe than the one it closed to.
Brexit Batters British Wine Trade
26/04/2021
Shipping wine to the UK is now a "bloody nightmare" and it's only likely to get worse.
Brexit Freedoms Bill - freedom from what?
11/02/2022
Mired in politicking, the Brexit Freedoms Bill that will ‘move us away from outdated EU laws’ has still to be published. What lawyers are confronted with at present is an elaborate game of charades.
The end of the holiday season heralds the return to centre stage of a number of burning Brexit-related issues this autumn.
Seven years on from the referendum, the divisions it exposed still affect how people vote.
Brexit is a ‘living animal’ and may never be complete, says EU envoy Joao Vale de Almeida
23/06/2021
Brexit is a “living animal” that may never be entirely over, the first EU ambassador to London warns today.
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?
Brexit isn't done yet - Andrew Opie, BRC
03/09/2021
We could have been forgiven for thinking Brexit was done when the UK left the EU at the very end of 2020. However, for retailers the real challenge of Brexit is likely to be felt in early 2022 when border controls are finally introduced for the UK.
Brexit Republic - Brextension?
24/10/2019
Will Boris Johnson's gamble to cut off the DUP to cut a deal with the EU prove to have been the undoing of his promise to 'Get Brexit Done' by October 31st?
Many EU member states are calling for a very hard line with the UK in talks on future relationship.
Two leaked drafts seen by The Independent show the EU position is hardening.
Brexit will not get done by 2021, EU chief negotiator admits in leaked recording that blows hole in Boris Johnson promise
11/12/2019
Michel Barnier’s bombshell private admission directly contradicts PM’s ‘get Brexit done’ slogan
Brexit’s harvest
27/10/2022
Brexit-induced labour shortages are going to be a limiting factor in the pursuit of growth, growth, growth
Brexit is a Tory invention and pro-Europeans must still fight the prospect of EU exile, writes Will Hutton.
Ministers are portraying themselves as victims of a deal they created for Northern Ireland. A classic blame-shifting strategy.
The Cabinet Minister for the Northern Powerhouse yelled "Britain first! Britain first" in parliament - the same words used by Jo Cox's killer as he shot and stabbed the Labour MP.
Did They Get Brexit Done? - ExplainTrade
20/11/2019
The UK Government has promised that if elected, their deal will “Get Brexit Done and End The Uncertainty.” But does it? If they are elected and their deal is passed, what will the UK know on Brexit day? What will they not know?
Ian Taylor launches attack on Boris Johnson's "misleading" promise to "Get Brexit Done".
Of all the myths and falsehoods put out by this government, one of the most egregious is that leaving on 31 October means that ‘we can get Brexit done’.
The European Commission's vice president Maros Sefcovic echoed Boris Johnson's 2019 election slogan in a speech in which he accused the UK of a "my way or the highway" approach.
MPs backed Boris Johnson's plan to tear apart his own deal with the EU - which comes after he claimed he had 'got Brexit done'.
EU nationals who cannot prove ‘settled status’ being wrongly denied basic rights, report finds
20/01/2020
One in 10 Europeans in Britain have been wrongly told to provide proof of settlement despite it not being requirement until after Brexit, research suggests.
European Commission vice-president says Brussels wants to get ‘Brexit done’ – while London refuses to talk about Northern Ireland.
Boris Johnson’s vow to ‘Get Brexit Done’ in 2019 has not been delivered, according to more than half of Britons.
Boris Johnson chronically confuses culture and economics of affair called Brexit.
Fury As Boris Johnson Dismisses As 'Humbug' Friends Of Jo Cox's Pleas To Tone Down Language
25/09/2019
Prime minister insists the best way to honour the MP murdered during the Brexit referendum was to "get Brexit done".
Getting Brexit undone
08/09/2021
Brexit is barely nine months old but is not ageing well. The ‘fabulous’ deal that Prime Minister Johnson and Brexit negotiator Lord Frost raved about last December, has lost all its shine – especially, it seems, to those who polished it. Having persuaded parliament to vote for it as the lesser of two evils, both Johnson and Frost have fallen out of love with their offspring.
Giant Brexit Inland Border Facility off M20 at Sevington, near Ashford, sitting empty, drone pictures reveal
25/01/2023
Drone pictures reveal how a giant Brexit border control site off the M20 near Ashford is now sitting empty.
‘Getting Brexit done’ has led to record migration numbers. So, what now?
Businesspeople, academics, journalists and a top trade unionist have formed a group with the purpose of repairing fractured UK-EU relations.
Ireland's deputy PM has warned governments doing trade deals with the UK that it is a nation that "doesn't necessarily keep its word".
Emily Maitlis has turned her attentions to the Tory’s central Brexit pledge, which took a couple of seconds to fall apart, and less than a minute to demolish entirely.
The biggest crisis of Brexit to date actually still lies ahead of us in late 2020.
Boris Johnson agreed in the final hours of the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations that there would be customs declarations on goods exiting Northern Ireland to Britain, despite the fact that just three weeks later he told businesses in the North there would be "no forms, no checks, no barriers of any kind…," according to a detailed new account of the protocol negotiations.
Ex-EU ambassador says PM’s ‘strategy errors’ will make good trade deal harder to achieve.
Johnson's 'no deal 2.0' virtue signalling
20/12/2019
"The first week of Johnson’s new administration has seen both speculation about, and the beginning of some answers to, how he intends to undertake Brexit. The outrageousness of that situation shouldn’t pass without comment."
The prime minister’s snappy, inane slogan is the prelude to inevitable lies, betrayal and duplicity.
If other countries don’t trust us to stick to what we agreed, it makes it harder to strike new deals in the future.
Lord Empey slams 'headlong emotional rush' into Brexit 'without any thought to the detail'
24/01/2023
Sir Reg Empey says he expects a hearing into how the NI Protocol is affecting medicine supplies on Wednesday to bring “more bad news”.
Measuring the Cost Brexit Six Months On
09/06/2021
The end of the transition period was merely a staging post within a process that will be long with us, says Chris Grey.
"THIS was the week when the EU stubbornly refused to collapse, yet again. Two much-publicised EU crises did not turn out as the hardline Brexiteers fervently hoped."
Leaving the EU confronts my former colleagues with a greater challenge than Whitehall has faced for generations.
No deal Brexit: issues, impact, implications
03/09/2019
The report shows that no deal will not “get Brexit done” rather, it will usher in a period of prolonged uncertainty for citizens, workers and businesses, which is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, our new report, No deal Brexit: issues, impacts, implications, reveals.
An exclusive poll shows that 60% of voters – including 46% of Leave voters – think Boris Johnson has failed on Brexit.
Northern Ireland customs worker re-homed after threat from loyalist paramilitary group as Brexit tensions rise
30/03/2021
The relocation of the Port of Larne worker and his family is believed to be the first following a death threat from terrorists since 2011
A summit crucial to the issue of climate change is instead mired in disentangling the mess of Britain’s exit from the EU
The truth is, it’s more like an egg in a microwave, with his plan exploding and taking a lot of clearing up, Gina Miller writes.
Less than a third of Brits think Brexit is ‘done,’ YouGov poll reveals.
He also criticised the UK government and what he called “the disaster” of Brexit, which had stopped airlines easily recruiting European workers, and thus worsened staff shortages this summer. “This is without doubt one of the inevitable consequences of the disaster that has been Brexit,” he said.
Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel scathingly criticised prime minister Boris Johnson for breaking his own Covid-19 laws in the partygate scandal and called Brexit a ‘mess’ in his surprise appearance on BBC1’s political debate programme Question Time.
A senior British diplomat in the US has quit with a blast at the UK government over Brexit, saying she could no longer "peddle half-truths" on behalf of political leaders she did not "trust."
So five years after the referendum, and six months from leaving the single market, what's the slogan from businesses most affected? Bureaucracy, delay, cost.
Starmer brands Boris Johnson a ‘trickster who has performed one trick’ by delivering Brexit
29/09/2021
‘He’s a showman with nothing left to show ... once he had said the words ‘Get Brexit Done’ his plan ran out’.
Boris Johnson’s government is waging a war of words not against the EU but the British people.
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.
Tories accused of creating new 'Get Brexit done' site which allows 'anonymous abuse to be sent to MPs'
29/10/2019
A new website encourages constituents to email their MPs anonymously to tell them why they should 'get Brexit done'.
Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin claimed the Brexit deal was signed with the government was in a “constitutional crisis” – even though Tories actually had an 80-seat majority at the time.
The UK government has said it remains “absolutely committed” to Brexit negotiations and the December 2020 transition date despite the coronavirus outbreak limiting talks between the two sides.
Under cover of Brexit - Chris Grey
03/07/2020
The most important Brexit event of the week came and went with relatively little fanfare, yet it marks a significant moment.
Watch Ed Miliband attack Boris Johnson as he accuses PM of trying to ‘get Brexit undone’ [2 mins]
14/09/2020
Ed Miliband accused Boris Johnson of seeking to "get Brexit undone" during a widely-praised speech against the controversial UK Internal Market Bill.
It divided the country, dominated politics for years and delivered the premiership to Boris Johnson. It’s five years ago tomorrow since the Brexit referendum produced its shock 52-48 result in favour of the UK quitting the European Union, and even though it was last year that we actually left, the consequences of that decision still have a long way to run.
From fish to border checks and even sausages in Northern Ireland, a host of issues need to be resolved in 2021.
There is an air of desperation in attacks from those on the right and their supporters in the press. They fear if Johnson falls, the Brexit deception will crumble too.
As Belfast reels after another night of violence on its streets, this bloodshed feels darkly reminiscent of the Troubles. Claire McNeilly reports.
"Oxfordians want to build-back-better and level-up but we have one hand tied behind our backs labelled Brexit," the association behind the movement told TLE.
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