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It will be much harder for the UK to seek a US trade deal with a Trump administration that's more focused on trade wars."
'Get Brexit done is the biggest delusion of all' - Michael Heseltine launches scathing attack on Boris Johnson.
The EU has opposed brutal animal welfare and rampant tech monopolies. Post-Brexit Britain will be exposed to both.
Professor A.C. Grayling talks to the European Movement about the impact of Brexit on Britain's place in the world and how Trump and the far-right will threaten our long-term stability if we don't resist them.
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?
Private letter says ‘illegal’ plan could jeopardise free trade deal between UK and Gulf Cooperation Council.
Sylvie Bermann, former French ambassador, puts PM’s handling of pandemic alongside Donald Trump’s.
Boris Johnson administration ‘frantically repositioning’ itself for Biden presidency, claims George Osborne
26/10/2020
Democrat candidate does not feel ‘particularly warm’ towards Brexiteers, says former chancellor.
The NHS is at critical risk as Boris Johnson wields the national treasure as bait in trade talks with the US, Labour claims.
Boris Johnson being grilled by Channel 4 News is the most excruciating thing you’ll see today
14/06/2021
As day two of G7 summit got underway, Johnson was quizzed about his relationship with former US president Donald Trump and the Northern Ireland protocol which governs the movement of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The new foreign policy formula is simple, Trump tweets and the Tory leadership hopeful jumps.
Prime minister asked about 2018 comments during appearance at Liaison Committee.
Boris Johnson Warned By US Senator That Trade Deal Will Have 'Tough' Time Passing Congress
16/07/2019
"There is bipartisan consensus against blowing up the Good Friday agreement."
Brexit and Donald Trump have left world most divided for 50 years according to St Andrews researchers
08/12/2021
Political divisions across the world are deeper than at any time in the last 50 years, a new St Andrews University-led study has found.
Wilbur Ross, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Commerce secretary, has urged other countries to exploit the “God-given opportunity” to steal business from the U.K., according to a report in The Times.
Accounts reveal Brexit-related labour shortages have hit business in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire.
JOE BIDEN could scupper a US-UK trade deal in favour of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the EU if he becomes US President, a scholar has claimed.
Brexit Republic - Ep. 3
13/07/2018
The arrival of a White Paper, the departure of cabinet members and US President Donald Trump's Sun interview all making waves for UK Prime Minister Theresa May. / And what are the dangers of a punitive Brexit deal for the UK? Oxford University Professor of European Studies Timothy Garton Ash gives us his view
UK Prime Minister Theresa May stepped down as Tory leader. The Brexit Party came up short in the Peterborough by-election. US President Donald Trump visited three countries. RTÉ Europe Editor Tony Connelly, London Correspondent Fiona Mitchell and Deputy Foreign Editor Colm Ó Mongáin look at a busy (but surprisingly calm) week.
A Brexiteer MP has claimed that he did not send his 'ill-advised' letter to Joe Biden warning him about Brexit, after being convinced by Donald Trump's lawyers.
Britain Is Holding Its Breath - The Atlantic
02/11/2020
The results of the U.S. election will pose existential questions in London.
Row over status of João Vale de Almeida has 'chilled' relationship between London and Brussels.
Micheal Martin warned the move to override parts of the international deal could “destabilise” politics in Northern Ireland.
British influence in Washington has 'vanished' due to Brexit, French ambassador to US says
23/04/2019
'The British ambassador told me — and I loved it — that every time the British military is meeting with the American military, the Americans are talking about the French' / British influence in Washington DC has “vanished” following Brexit, the outgoing French ambassador to the US has said.
Comments made by the Sir Kim Darroch, the British Ambassador to the US, on the Trump administration have been leaked to pro-Brexit journalist Isabel Oakshott, with key Brexiteers exploiting them to attack the civil service and diplomatic corps and call for the removal of non-Brexit-supporting civil servants.
DONALD Trump is threatening to use post-Brexit trade talks to lower the price of prescription drugs for US patients by forcing the NHS to pay more, in a move which could cost the UK billions.
US ambassador’s suggestion that NHS should be ‘on the table’ in future negotiations sparks alarm. / Donald Trump will land in the UK on Monday amid anger over comments made by his ambassador suggesting the NHS should be “on the table” in future trade negotiations.
Donald Trump was one of Brexit’s biggest cheerleaders. Now his Scottish golf courses are blaming it after over $5m in losses
03/02/2023
Donald Trump was a staunch supporter of Brexit. But his Scottish golf resorts is where he draws the line. / The former president’s U.K.-based golfing havens have lost more than $5 million in the last financial year.
If Boris Johnson seriously believes the US will shower rewards on Britain after leaving the EU he is mistaken.
EU parliament votes against opening US trade talks amid fears over 'bullying' Trump policies
14/03/2019
The European Parliament has voted against opening trade talks between the EU and the United States amid fears over Donald Trump‘s trade and environmental policies.
Proactive, cosmopolitan and open, the European Union is filling a leadership void on the global stage, argue James Wilsdon and Sarah de Rijcke.
"It's like a turkey voting for Christmas, isn't it?" / A farmer’s passionate speech about Brexit from 2019 has been making the rounds on social media – with one person saying it “could have been made yesterday”.
Lewis Silkin LLP partner Brinsley Dresden explains why brands should be careful of using nationalism to try to sell products.
If democracies continue to produce such dysfunctional leaders, the only beneficiaries will be authoritarian states with their repressive, brutal alternative.
Report urges politicians to 'come clean' about consequences of ending free movement or risk 'creating the sort of conditions in Britain that helped Donald Trump become US president'. / Illegal immigration is likely to rise when Britain leaves the EU and freedom of movement ends, a new study has found.
More than six years later, Trump’s rhetoric seems prescient for reasons he may not have intended. The right-wing populist shocks that hit both Britain and the United States in 2016 have exacerbated the internal dysfunctions within both countries’ right-wing parties.
ITV Debate: Nigel Farage Defends Donald Trump's Lewd Comments About Women: 'Men Say Dreadful Things Sometimes'
01/12/2019
Brexit Party leader likens US president's infamous remark to something "said on a night out after a drink" during ITV debate.
This is the moment James O'Brien reacts to former Brexit Secretary David Davis telling LBC that the haulage industry's failure to act has led to post-Brexit tanker and HGV driver shortages.
'It would only work for the richest', Labour leader says.
Trump’s national security adviser wants the UK to be beholden to the US for its daily bread, making the country a timid American outpost.
Ivan Rogers, former UK ambassador to the EU, says prime minister will think ‘history was going his way’ if Donald Trump is re-elected
Keep our NHS out of US Trade deals
20/08/2019
As part of his visit to the UK, Donald Trump has just said that the NHS must be on the table as part of any trade deal with the UK after Brexit. This is a serious and direct threat to the NHS that we all know and love - so I’m calling on our government to guarantee that our health service will never form part of ANY trade deal, nevermind one with Donald Trump.
Make Britain Great Again: How Ukip tried to ride the Trump wave – and it ended in disaster
15/01/2020
As Ukip welcomes Katie Hopkins as a member, Lizzie Dearden looks at the party’s journey into the far right.
Trump says the competition commissioner hates the US, but what she really hates is tax avoidance.
Billionaire media mogul says it is ‘hard to understand why a country doing so well wanted to ruin it’.
The team run down what the Tory leadership hopefuls have planned to solve Brexit and tackle The Donald's visit to the Palace. Meanwhile Geri digs deep into another confusing week for Labour.
No Wonder Donald Trump Loves Brexit So Much
03/06/2019
The U.S. wants to move the U.K. away from the EU’s set of trade rules and regulations toward the American one. Farage and Johnson are easy prey.
NHS will be sold off to US private healthcare firms if Britain crashes out, says Labour leader.
US trade deal would mean ‘submitting to someone else’s wishes’, academic says.
NZ must help build new global grouping
25/07/2020
When great powers fail, New Zealand and other small states must organise to protect their interests, Robert G. Patman writes.
Opposition leaders are using Donald Trump's visit to the UK to raise concerns about the terms of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.
Hailed by Tory MPs as a Brexit benefit, CPTPP membership actually turns the UK into a willing pawn in Washington’s geopolitical game.
The UK government has made a last-ditch decision to overrule its official post-Brexit trade advisers to extend protections on certain steel products.
It’s a big one this week as the redoubtable DOMINIC GRIEVE MP – former Attorney General, unbowed People’s Vote advocate... /
This week: Why Dominic Cummings is putting out information chaff to create the impression of activity. Which good Remainy cause are YOU going to donate your shiny Brexit 50p to? Would Paddington Bear be rejected for Settled Status? Why are the Brexiters placing their faith in the WTO and Trump just as Trump is trying to neuter the WTO itself?
As the clock ticks down to Zero Hour, will the Government’s performative anti-Brussels bolshiness come back to bite it? ... Project Fear comes true, but still can’t cut through. How to shut up people who shout “LISBON TREATY!” as if it’s some magic word to dispel all anti-Brexit argument. And what are we going to spend all that Get Ready For Brexit ad money on?
Billionaire media mogul says decision to leave the EU is like a 'prison break'.
Russia 'emboldened' by Trump, Brexit and Afghanistan evacuation, says ex-GCHQ boss [2 mins]
11/01/2022
Russia has been "emboldened" by the Trump era, Brexit and the evacuation of Afghanistan, according to former GCHQ Director Professor Sir David Omand.
Senior Tories insist Brexit deal would not scupper US trade agreement after shock Trump intervention
01/11/2019
'We can’t make a trade deal with the UK,' says US president.
The hostility shown to the EU contrasts with the fawning attitude towards the US and fails to recognise the disparity in economic power.
A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum. As Britain heads to the polls again, is our electoral process still fit for purpose?
The Johnson-Cummings war on the civil service is very troubling. It looks like the start of a rolling coup against institutions
29/06/2020
The corruption of constitutional order can happen very quickly and reversing it can take a very long time and at huge cost.
Once an obscure idea confined to the darker corners of the internet, the anti-Islam ideology is now visible in the everyday politics of the west. How did this happen?
The post-Johnson era is already a nightmare
19/07/2022
Boris Johnson’s Trumpian remarks on the “deep state” will almost certainly have a destructive effect on British democracy.
Though most people assume Steve Bannon-style populism arrived with Brexit in 2016, the planning, the people, and the project first came together three years earlier.
London (CNN)Three turbulent years after 17 million British people voted to leave the European Union, Brexit has grown from a quaint word to an ugly cloud hanging over the nation.
Senior party figures equated storming of US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump with people opposing Brexit.
Tory party urges activists to campaign like Trump by ‘weaponising fake news’ and ‘fighting wokeism’
15/12/2020
‘There are lessons that we can learn from Trump….a lie can go round the world before the truth can get its boots on’.
Trump administration threatens UK with tariffs if Boris Johnson imposes taxes on tech giants
21/01/2020
Digital services levy due to be imposed on web-based firms like Facebook and Amazon from April.
Trump administration ‘tells Boris Johnson to drop tax on tech giants’ to secure trade deal
04/08/2019
The Trump administration has made it clear to Boris Johnson that any post-Brexit US-UK free trade deal would rely on Britain dropping plans to tax large American tech firms, according to reports.
It has been a gloomy festive period on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as new post-Brexit customs controls caused added disruption at our borders and a leading UK cheese supplier called Boris Johnson’s oven-ready trade deal with the EU the “biggest disaster any government has ever negotiated”.
Historian Sir Simon Schama has warned that Donald Trump is a president "ready to pounce" in the event of a no-deal Brexit as he criticised the US ambassador.
Donald Trump is ready to use trade talks to force the National Health Service to pay more for its drugs as part of his scheme to "put American patients first”.
The company which owns former US president Donald Trump’s Ayrshire golf course posted a more than £15 million loss in 2021, its accounts show. / The former president’s son Eric Trump signed off the accounts for the Turnberry course as a director of the company, saying in a report that Brexit had impacted on supply chains and staffing.
President will put US firms first in UK trade talks, says Kim Darroch
It is one of the starkest of all Brexit contradictions. The most strident supporters of the project want to leave the EU because it imposes demands upon the UK, but then also secure a trade deal with the US which would involve accepting a whole new set of obligations.
The United States will delay its deal to remove tariffs on UK steel and aluminum because of concerns about post-Brexit trade rules affecting Northern Ireland, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
UK 'has to resist' opening up NHS to US in post-Brexit trade deal, warns former Tory health secretary
05/06/2019
'What they will actually target is the process by which we control pharmaceutical pricing. That is where they will be pushing - we have to resist them'
Former senior officials also worry Britain may be sidelined if Joe Biden becomes president.
America Letter: Congress members voice support for backstop and Belfast agreement. / This week the issue of Brexit made it across the Atlantic as members of US Congress voiced their concern about its impact on Northern Ireland.
US says Brexit trade talks with Liam Fox cancelled amid mounting fury over leaked Trump memos
09/07/2019
Planned Brexit trade talks between Liam Fox and US Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross have been cancelled, amid escalating tensions following the release of UK diplomatic memos calling Donald Trump "incompetent", "inept", and "insecure".
Which? raises alarm after Boris Johnson dumped promised ban on chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef, to strike quickfire agreement with Donald Trump
Vote Leave’s dark ads shame: UK steel set to suffer from EU’s tariff-free agreement with US
04/01/2022
Unite's national officer for steel said the government needed to explain why the EU had a deal but the UK did not.
Nations can recover from bad elections far more easily than from bad referendums.
Why would anyone trust Brexit Britain again?
24/07/2021
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.
Chris Hayes on Trump's victory in 2016, the Brexit vote, and Bolsonaro's victory two years later: “In all three cases, in all three countries, we kind of ran the experiment—you can't look at any of these three countries and the outcomes and think that was not a disaster.”
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