The Latest Breaking News from James Cleverly

EU stance on NI Protocol ‘hardened’ in face of UK threat of unilateral action

Irish foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney warned Boris Johnson against tabling legislation that would override aspects of the trade arrangements.

The Independent UK · Jun 9, 2022

UK Government has ‘lost critical trust’ in Northern Ireland, says ex-minister

Lord Hain said the Government is no longer trusted in the way it was when led by former prime ministers John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

The Independent UK · May 26, 2022

UK Government ‘dragging its feet’ on assisting father detained in Iraq

BRITISH officials have repeatedly raised the case of a retired geologist at risk of being executed in Iraq, the Government said, amid pleas to end…

The National (Scotland) · May 12, 2022

Is there no end to Tory MPs’ sexual misconduct?

A member caught watching porn on his phone in the Commons joins the roll call of members accused of shameful behaviour

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2022

Fears of return to Northern Ireland violence unless Brexit border row tackled

Foreign Office Minister James Cleverly urged the EU to "flex" its negotiator's mandate to make compromise more likely as the Protocol dispute deepens

Daily Mirror · Apr 28, 2022

Brexit checks on EU food imports scrapped, announces Jacob Rees-Mogg

Minister admits controls would have hit supermarkets prices and been ‘act of self-harm’

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2022

UK and EU at an impasse over changes to N. Ireland protocol

Britain and the European union are at an impasse over changes to the parts of the Brexit deal governing trade with Northern Ireland, Britain's Europe minister James Cleverly told a parliamentary committee on Thursday.

Reuters · Apr 28, 2022

In Chicago, British foreign minister says Putin made ‘strategic error’ in thinking Ukraine invasion would fracture Western democratic alliances

CHICAGO — Russian President Vladimir Putin committed a major “strategic error” in believing his invasion of Ukraine would fragment Western democracies, the British foreign minister for Europe and North America said in Chicago this week.

Chicago Tribune · Apr 15, 2022

Afternoon Edition: April 13, 2022

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Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 13, 2022

Top UK minister pledges continued support for Ukraine on trip to Chicago Wednesday

“If [Russian President Vladimir] Putin thinks there will be a point in time when we get bored and just move on, he is sorely mistaken,” said James Cleverly, British Minister of State for Europe and North America.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 13, 2022