The Latest Breaking News from Brexit

Brexit: Minister hails closer ties with Texas but no free trade deal with US or India

‘This Conservative government’s cowboy trade policy is shooting the British public in the foot,’ says Lib-Dem Sarah Olney as ministers boast of better links with Texas but no post-Brexit free trade deal with America

Evening Standard · Mar 12, 2024

Jeremy Hunt’s budget mixtape is no match for Brexit’s greatest hits

Somehow the chancellor omitted to mention the main cause of Britain’s woes

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024

Theresa May: loyal constituency MP who lost Tory support over Brexit

No 10 years were plagued by in-fighting as she tried to deliver Brexit that would placate hard-right and centrist factions

The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2024

Jeremy Hunt knows Brexit Britain can’t afford to cut taxes

The chancellor is prepared to inflict yet more austerity to pay for a budget bribe. But the UK needs more spending, not less

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2024

Anderson and Braverman shout loudest, but one man has led the toxification of the Tories: Michael Gove

As an influential constant in government, Gove has been key to the process of rightwing radicalisation, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2024

The Conservatives’ economic record since 2010 in 10 charts

From a huge budget deficit to weak GDP and a record rise in tax, we look at the background to the Tory budget

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2024

Fourteen years of Tory economics – ‘major mistakes’ and ‘crisis after crisis’

As the chancellor prepares next week’s budget, Labour says it is staring at a dire inheritance. The voters look likely to agree

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2024

Dining across the divide: ‘He said he was vegan; my heart sank’

Can a landlord and a hard-up renter get past their differences on the housing crisis, Brexit and immigration?

The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024

Carrying chickens by their legs should remain unlawful, say UK campaigners

Defra proposal to relax farming rules accused of breaking Tory pledge to raise standards post-Brexit as the practice can cause pain

The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2024

‘He’s very controversial, isn’t he?’: how Lee Anderson’s constituents reacted to his comments about Sadiq Khan

In Kirkby-in Ashfield, some call their MP an ‘embarrassment’ while others say ‘he’s telling the truth a lot of people daren’t say’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2024