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Brits travelling to EU nations after Brexit should not have to get an entry visa even if Britain leaves without a deal, the European Commission has said. Senior officials today discussed whether UK nationals should be treated as “third country” nationals as part of its no-deal planning, which would require travellers to buy a €60 […]

Tory Remainer MP Anna Soubry has demanded to know who is running the country after being ordered to abstain on a vital Commons vote. After being told by whips not to vote in support of Labour’s motion to force the government to release legal advice from the attorney general on Brexit she blasted: ‘Who is […]

16-year-old anti-Brexit campaigner ATHIAN AKEC writes about what it feels like to be a young person watching Brexit unfold. I am a 16-year-old BAME person who cares deeply about his community, and I am watching a political catastrophe unfold in my city. Young Londoners like me are living in a time of turmoil. The unrest […]

A ‘floating voter’ took the unusual step of calling Nigel Farage’s radio show and asking for advice on which party to vote for to stop Brexit. The Southbank caller said had become disillusioned with the two main parties because of the pro-Brexit stances from the two leaders. He said he had become unsure about the […]

Remain attack dog Femi Oluwole savaged the editor of Brexit Central declaring that refusing the public another chance to vote would be ‘undemocratic’. Oluwole, of Our Future Our Choice, was appearing head-to-head on Sky News with hardline Brexiteer Jonathan Isaby. But Isaby’s claim that the first referendum was the ‘people’s vote’ did not wash with […]

It is far from ‘exceedingly good’ news for the owner of Mr Kipling – as it announced it is preparing to stockpile raw materials ahead of Brexit as concerns rise about the potential impact. Premier Foods, which owns Bisto, Oxo and Mr Kipling, said it was having to take steps ‘in the absence of certainty […]

The government’s Brexit secretary is reportedly planning to push senior cabinet members to rebel against the Brexit deal he’s working on. Dominic Raab is expected to join forces with cabinet members to tell the prime minister that the deal from the European Union is unacceptable, and that she should plan for the UK to leave […]

A no-deal Brexit would leave police and security services struggling to tackle terrorism, according to London’s mayor. Sadiq Khan said a chaotic exit form the European Union would leave police and spooks fighting terror ‘with their arms tied behind their backs’. He called for a separate deal to be struck on security issues following warnings […]

A cross-party group of MPs are set to table amendments to Budget legislation that would force the government to come clean on whether its proposed Brexit deal is better for Britain than staying in the European Union. The initiative comes after a leaked memorandum showed ministers were planning to publish an official analysis of how […]

Premier League clubs are set to be forced to ensure half of their squad is “homegrown” under radical FA plans to cope with Brexit. The Times reports today the FA will put a proposal to clubs this week which would reduce the number of overseas players in each 25-man first-team squad to 12. It comes […]

Brexiteer Kate Hoey has infuriated Remainers by saying that they are ‘more patriotic to the EU than their own country’ https://twitter.com/mpc_1968/status/1062107399346180096 The Labour Leave MP made the claim in a row between herself and Lord Adonis during an LBC radio debate which also featured journalist Ian Dunt and former UKIP spokeswoman Suzanne Evans. As Adonis […]

Voters in many of the most marginal Conservative seats now back a referendum on the final Brexit deal, according to a major new study. The YouGov survey of more than 25,000 people revealed that a majority of voters in all 67 of the most vulnerable Tory seats now want the public to be given a […]

Louis Theroux has said he is tempted to make a documentary about former UKIP leader Nigel Farage. The filmmaker has said he is drawn to the story of the Brexit campaigner who he described as being now “in the margins” of frontline politics. Theroux is tempted to return to his When Louis Met format, and […]

David Cameron is said to be too frightened about provoking Brextremists to back a People’s Vote… and will there be a knighthood for ousted Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre in New Year’s Honours? In his quiet, but determined way, Sir John Major has been lobbying David Cameron to come out publicly for a People’s Vote, […]

CATHERINE WILSON says that the Brexit referendum question was too complex for the nation and non-voters should not be blamed for not heading to the polls. Your correspondent Sally Mays (The New European, edition 118) quotes from a letter written by her father in 1974, at the time of the first EU referendum. He expressed […]

Jacob Rees-Mogg has insisted if Theresa May loses her job and if Britain was to crash out of the European Union it would not be the fault of the Brexiteers. In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald the Tory backbencher and Brexiteer said that crashing out without a deal was the ‘most likely option’, […]

Former prime minister Gordon Brown wants the final decision on Brexit to be put back to the people. "I think there will be a second referendum"Former PM Gordon Brown says people should "have the final say" on a #Brexit dealMore: https://t.co/o9MrYc2mLK pic.twitter.com/5UQuwOPbR8— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) November 12, 2018 Brown said long-term questions remained ‘unresolved’ and […]

The chair of the Brexit select committee has said that the more the Brexiteers shout about the government’s approach to Brexit the more it becomes clear their arguments have been full of fantasy. https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1061962741798195200 Hilary Benn MP was being interviewed on BBC Politics Live when he made the claims about the Brexiteers’ lack of plan […]

British Airways is reportedly seeking the support of the Spanish government to keep its airplanes flying in the event of Brexit. The company’s parent owner International Airlines Group (IAG) is asking for support from Madrid to retain operating rights in Europe should the UK crash out of the European Union without a Brexit deal. Such […]

Nigel Farage has branded himself as the ‘devil for the European Union’ after Michel Barnier warned MEPs that there is now a figure like the former UKIP leader spinning ‘populist deceit’ in every EU country. Grinning during his LBC radio show Farage replayed a clip of the European chief Brexit negotiator Barnier’s warning. Barnier told […]

Sir Keir Starmer has once again contradicted Labour leadership – this time insisting that Brexit can be stopped. Jeremy Corbyn had previously claimed an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel that he ‘can’t stop’ Brexit and instead urged the Labour Party to ‘recognise the reasons why people voted Leave’. However Sir Keir, the shadow Brexit […]

Michel Barnier will update ministers from EU nations on the state of the Brexit negotiations as domestic pressure on Theresa May intensifies. Boris Johnson accused May of being on the brink of “total surrender” to the EU over Brexit as he urged the Cabinet to mutiny against the prime minister’s withdrawal agenda. And another Brexiteer […]

Is Arron Banks a bad boy or sad chancer, asks JAMES BALL It’s almost easy to feel fatigued: another week, another set of fresh allegations connected to Brexit. This week, though, we’ve had two – and both sets refer to Arron Banks. During the course of the EU referendum campaign, Banks became the biggest political […]

The Conservative party is failing workers and business with its focus on Brexit, the UK boss of a German industrial giant has warned. Terry Sargeant, the UK chairman and chief executive of ThyssenKrupp, said the Tories were putting the interests of the party ahead of business. He has joined a number of businesses who have […]

Ahead of the centenary of the end of the First World War. CHARLIE CONNELLY reconstructs the moving and momentous events of the very first Armistice Day, assembling personal accounts from diaries, newspaper and museum archives. 05:00 Across Europe rain had fallen through the night. In Britain it fell on the towns and cities, villages and […]

More ministers are ready to walk out of Theresa May’s cabinet over her Brexit plans, according to Tory insiders. Jo Johnson – whose bombshell resignation rocked Westminster – said if more ministers were to quit ‘good on them’. One Tory source said he believed there were others in the cabinet considering their position but doubted […]

Former Tory party adviser Barnaby Towns​ picks apart an idea which is gaining currency among many politicians As Britain counts down to the government’s self-inflicted Brexit deadline, Norway is in the news. Brexiteers and Remainers alike eye the land of the midnight sun’s membership of the European Economic Area outside the EU as preferable to […]

ADAM BEHR assesses the White Album in its wider cultural context The Beatles’ White Album – actually eponymously titled, but nicknamed as such due to its plain cover, with the band’s name embossed (also in white) and a serial number – was a shift away from the technicolour explosion of psychedelia of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely […]