The Latest Breaking News from Brexit

How Brexit ‘allowed a convicted people smuggler’ to live and work in the UK

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The Independent UK · Jul 2

Convicted people smuggler able to live in UK due to Brexit, immigration officers claim

The Immigration Services Union said the UK’s decision to leave the EU has meant we no longer have access to a data-sharing agreement with many countries in the bloc

The Independent UK · Jul 2

EU urged to exempt UK from car rules that could be worst Brexit impact yet

Bloc’s ‘made in Europe’ regulations risk shutting out British manufacturers in ‘most spectacular own goal in history’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 1

Voices: ‘We need a referendum’: Readers respond to Sir John Major’s call to rejoin EU single market within five years

YOUR VIEWS: Sir John Major’s call for Britain to rejoin the single market within five years has sparked fierce debate among readers on everything from democratic mandates and economic impact to the political and practical challenges of closer alignment with the EU

The Independent UK · Jun 29

‘We was hoodwinked’: Inside the ex-mining town that backed Brexit despite millions of pounds of EU funding

EUROPE: THE WAY BACK: Eyebrows were raised when the Welsh area of Blaenau Gwent, despite receiving huge swathes of EU funding, voted to leave the bloc 10 years ago. Alex Ross visits the area’s largest town of Ebbw Vale, and discovers a more complicated picture

The Independent UK · Jun 28

‘British food will disappear’: trade deal after Brexit is hitting UK farmers hard

Home-grown food may become a niche product for the wealthy in our supermarkets as British farmers’ incomes plummet

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28

Two prime ministerial resignations, 10 years apart: ‘Brexit represents a kind of faultline in British history’

Keir Starmer’s announcement on Monday was the latest convulsion since the Brexit vote. This week, as we marked 10 years since the referendum, our former national news editor Dan Sabbagh looked back to the start of Britain’s ongoing political chaos

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28

People in Britain used to agree to disagree. Since Brexit, they no longer dare to talk about difficult things

Studies suggest the country is more divided than ever – but we won’t come together unless we begin to talk rationally and calmly, says novelist and political scientist Elif Shafak

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27

Brexit Britain: Sunlit Uplands or a Toad in the Harrow?

Political change in Britain has dominated the headlines, with Keir Starmer’s resignation paving the way for Andy Burnham, as the country also marks ten years since the Brexit vote. Fresh peace talks between the US and Iran have begun amid continuing tensions and sharply different accounts of progress from both…

France 24 · Jun 26

Sir John Major is right – Britain is only strengthened by being closer to Europe

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: In an exclusive interview with The Independent, the man who did more than anyone to keep Britain in Europe speaks an undeniable truth: that those who promised so much from Brexit have delivered next to nothing

The Independent UK · Jun 26