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Brexit will make UK more vulnerable to Salisbury-style attacks, warns former head of MI6
The former head of MI6 has warned that more Salisbury-style attacks could follow after Brexit
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Talking Politics
First Justin Trudeau, who leads the country with the name they literally use to describe their trade plans, warned that Brexit was turning the UK “inwards”. Now, the prime minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, has disparaged the idea that Britain should adopt his own state as its post-Brexit standard. The city-state is one of the poster boys for the Global Britain brand.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg: MPs won't back 'waffly' plan to extend Brexit transition period
Jacob Rees-Mogg rejects plan to give Britain an extended transition period to leave the European Union, saying Parliament would not back the idea.
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Talking Politics
Earlier this month Peter Lilley, a former UK trade and industry secretary, published an article in The Times entitled: ’Even a no-deal Brexit is better than status quo’. This is just not true, and for reasons that Lilley ought to understand. It is often argued that because EU trade conducted under WTO rules is growing faster than trade between members, the WTO must somehow offer better terms. “WTO terms are designed to provide a safety net ensuring all members can trade without discrimination.
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The only remaining issue preventing a deal is the Irish backstop. This is the promise that, no matter what, there will be a frictionless border in Ireland. Theresa May’s solution is to make sure it’ll be never be used, by signing up the whole of the UK to the customs union and the single market for goods.
- NewsAndy Wells
Brexit: Most Tory Leave voters believe Britain will exit the EU with a deal in place
Just three in ten of all voters expect a deal to be secured by the time Brexit day rolls around in March 2019.
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‘Deliver what the people voted for’: Theresa May warned that voters will not forgive her for extending Brexit transition period
The change would mean the UK remaining within the single market and customs union until the end of 2021.
- NewsMatilda Long
The four member countries that like the EU even less than the UK
The European Parliament asked EU citizens whether they thought membership of the bloc was a good thing.
- NewsAndy Wells
Brexit: Theresa May insists Chequers plan is not dead as she travels to Brussels to fight for deal
The proposal would mean Britain staying in the customs union and single market beyond December 2020
- NewsRoss McGuinness
Boris Johnson's popularity slumps to its lowest ever level, poll finds
The former foreign secretary's favourability rating is at an all-time low following his Brexit spats with Theresa May.
- NewsRoss McGuinness
Theresa May says EU demanding 'backstop to the backstop' to resolve Brexit talks
Theresa May delivered a speech to the House of Commons on Monday afternoon after the latest Brexit developments.
- NewsRoss McGuinness
Brexit talks stall over Irish border ahead of crunch summit for Theresa May
Hastily arranged talks between Brexit secretary Dominic Raab and EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier failed to reach a breakthrough.
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What is the 'Irish backstop' and will Theresa May's government survive to cut a Brexit deal?
The UK and the EU both want to avoid a 'hard border' between Northern Ireland and Ireland and now Theresa May has said the UK will stay in the customs union as a backstop.
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Lights could go out in Northern Ireland under a no-deal Brexit
Households in Northern Ireland could be hit by electricity blackouts if there’s a no-deal Brexit, the UK government said on Friday.
- NewsAndy Wells
M26 motorway to be closed overnight for weeks during work to turn it into a giant Brexit car par
Tonbridge and Malling MP Tom Tugendhat said work on the M26 started on Wednesday night.
- NewsMatilda Long
University pulls Brexit debate because there were no women on the panel
The University of York has postponed a talk on Brexit because there were no women speakers on the eight-person panel. The ‘Brexit and History’ conference was described by the university as intending to ‘bring together historians and social scientists to discuss the origins and potential impact of Brexit’. Professor Lawrence Black, head of the Department of History, said in a statement: “It has come to my attention that a conference organised to explore issues related to Brexit and History has an all-male speaker list.
- NewsRoss McGuinness
Millionaire plumbing boss Charlie Mullins puts up ‘B*****ks to Brexit' signs all over London
Pimlico Plumbers boss Charlie Mullins has put up 22 electronic billboards slamming Brexit across London.
- NewsMatilda Long
Campaigners have almost run out of time to hold a second Brexit vote
The study by UCL's Constitution Unit concludes that another public vote is 'practically possible', but would take at least 22 weeks to plan.
- NewsRoss McGuinness
Warnings on cigarette packets will be replaced by Australian versions in no-deal Brexit
The UK government has agreed with Australia to use its graphic warnings on cigarette packets in the case of a no-deal Brexit.
NewsMatilda LongJean-Claude Juncker denies mocking Theresa May's Abba dancing
Jean-Claude Juncker has denied mocking Theresa May with an impression of her Tory Conference dancing. The President of the EU Commission laughed and danced for a few seconds as he took to the podium before the Committee of the Regions in Brussels. Mr Juncker’s dance was remarkably similar to the one performed by the Prime Minister when she walked on stage for her keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference last week to the tune of ‘Dancing Queen’ by Abba.
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Britain's Brexit divorce could rise by billions because of EU spending promises
Britain's bill for leaving the European Union could grow by billion because of Brussels' spending commitments, experts have warned.
- NewsAndy Wells
Theresa May warns Tories that French president Emmanuel Macron thinks he can stop Brexit
Macron has misread support for another referendum in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to Government sources.
- NewsAndy Wells
Dancing on thin ice: May waltzes on to stage and warns 'Brexit could still be reversed'
Theresa May danced on to the stage before trying to unite Tories behind her under-fire Brexit Chequers plans.
- NewsMatilda Long
Theresa May 'cross' after Boris Johnson calls on PM to 'chuck Chequers'
Theresa May has said she is ‘cross’ with Boris Johnson after he received a rapturous reception at the Tory party conference and called on her to ‘chuck’ her Chequers Brexit deal. The former Foreign Secretary’s highly anticipated speech drew perhaps the biggest audience in Birmingham. Calling Mrs May’s plan ‘dangerous and unstable’, he said: ‘Do not believe that we can somehow get it wrong now and fix it later – get out properly next year, or the year after.
- NewsMatilda Long
Jeremy Hunt under fire after comparing EU to Soviet Union
Jeremy Hunt has come under fire after comparing the EU to the Soviet Union. In his speech at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, the foreign secretary accused the European Union of ‘punishing’ Britain for voting to leave, likening the approach to Soviet Union trying to stop its citizens leaving.
