カテゴリー: Brexit
French president addresses MPs on topical issues, from commitment to Ukraine, to European connection and US tariffsUK politics live – latest updatesEmmanuel Macron, making the state visit by a European head of state to the UK since Brexit, has addresse…
Britain and India have agreed a long-desired trade deal that ministers said would add £4.8bn a year to the UK economy by 2040. The agreement, which was finalised on Tuesday after more than three years of negotiations under successive governments, has l…
Deal could help UK industries hit by Trump tariffs, as ministers say it will add £4.8bn a year to economy by 2040 Britain and India have agreed a long-desired trade deal that ministers said would cut tariffs and add £4.8bn a year to the UK economy by 2…
The British PM did eventually meet his counterpart at the Delhi summit – but after a day’s wait, and without an impressive photo opRead more: Sunak tells G20: UK will resist ‘hair shirt’ policies on net zero pledge When Rishi Sunak finally got to meet …
Successive prime ministers have failed to achieve what they see as one of the great dividends offered by BrexitLiz Truss bowled into Downing Street last summer with a promise to rip up much of what her predecessor Boris Johnson had done. However, one g…
Exclusive: Sources believe deal will not be struck before meeting with Narendra Modi at G20 summitRishi Sunak has ruled out a quick-fix trade deal with India, making it impossible to get an agreement over the line in time for this week’s G20 summit in …
Discussions with India are into their 12th round and neither the public nor parliament has seen a word of the conclusionsIt is welcome to see attention being drawn to the appalling lack of transparency surrounding the UK’s programme of post-Brexit free…
Court rules government failed to fulfil obligation to collect correct amount of customs duties and VATThe British government faces paying a hefty charge to the EU after the European court of justice ruled it had been negligent in allowing criminal gang…
Activists lament that a safe, legal way into Britain has closed with Brexit, when stranded children need it as much as ever‘When I was a child in Afghanistan I loved to watch my uncle play chess. Now I have joined the local club here.” Samir is grinnin…
From China backtracking on coal to Britain’s ‘chicken king’ calling for a rethink of food production, the virus has accelerated nationalist impulses towards autarkyWhen Xi Jinping promised the world’s movers and shakers in January 2017 that China would…
The EU increasingly embraces the idea of a continental identity, one that’s white and Christian. Is it really the liberal body of remainer lore?When Kabul fell in mid-August, almost the first reaction of European leaders was fear of another wave of ref…
The UK’s feebleness abroad and supply-chain problems at home show how absurd the Brexiters’ dream of a transformed nation wasSo much for Global Britain. The fiasco and tragedy of the retreat from Afghanistan have laid bare the folly of the Brexiters’ F…
Thousands who fled their war-torn country stand to lose their right to work, rent a home and access NHSThousands of East Timorese people who fled the country in the 1990s could lose their rights to work, rent a home or access the NHS in three days’ tim…
A reconsideration of Britain’s place in the world is necessary. But this paper fails to meet the challenges of the 21st century The integrated review offers a nostalgic – at times, even anachronistic – response to the challenges of the 21st century. It…