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British farmers say they are facing the “soul-destroying” prospect of leaving crops to rot in the fields unless a post-Brexit visa scheme for seasonal workers is announced soon. They say that many of the UK’s seasonal fruit and vegetable pickers have already started to look for jobs elsewhere in the EU after receiving no assurances […]

Theresa May has been accused of being behind public opinion after ruling out any second referendum despite a poll showing a majority now wants one. The PM’s spokesman reiterated today that there would “be no second referendum in any circumstance” following the publication of a poll showing that a majority now back a People’s Vote […]

Boris Johnson appears to have finally accepted that Leave means Leave as removal vehicles were spotted outside the grace and favour home he lived in as foreign secretary. Three weeks after quitting the Cabinet in a row over Theresa May’s Brexit plans, his belongings were being removed from One Carlton Gardens in central London. Mr […]

The New European’s handy guide to help you answer all those awkward questions and tricky situations you might find yourself in during your European holiday this summer. Don’t look at me like that, I voted Remain No me mires así, voté por permanecer (Spanish) No, of course I’m not proposing marriage on our first date […]

Public opinion is rapidly turning against Brexit, according to a new poll. The survey for Sky News found that more than three-quarters of the British public – 78% of those surveyed – think that the government is doing a bad job in negotiating Brexit, and just 10% think they are doing a good job. Two-thirds […]

It is so easy to take the European Union for granted, or obsess about its faults, says SONY KAPOOR. But to understand its true value you need only look at how other global tensions remain unresolved I was at the Nobel Centre in Oslo recently reading the citation for the peace prize awarded to the […]

If Pyongyang is to emerge from the cold, it will be because it has revolutionised its railways. says HUSSEIN DIA One of the most revealing moments from the meeting, in April, between the leaders of North and South Korea came when president Moon Jae-in said he would like to travel through North Korea to climb […]

When Danny Dyer attacked former prime minister David Cameron his comments went viral. Now the former Leave voter has turned his attention to another politician. Last month the actor’s comments on Brexit were widely shared on social media after he used colourful language to describe Cameron on ITV’s Good Evening Britain. Speaking to the Mirror […]

Much has been pinned on the 16th-century seafarer, but was one of England’s national heroes a patriot or a pirate? HORATIO MORPURGO offers a fresh perspective. Sir Francis Drake’s first sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1578 (1908). From Harmsworth History of the World, Volume 2, by Arthur Mee, J.A. Hammerton, & A.D. Innes, M.A. (Carmelite […]

Out of sight of the world, Cameroon is succumbing to catastrophe. JULIUS A, AMIN reports I spent part of last month in Cameroon travelling to various communities and listening to ordinary voices about the ongoing Anglophone crisis, which has seen unrest and clashes between English-speaking minority and the French-speaking majority. I witnessed the devastating impact […]

Comedian MITCH BENN looks forward to how we can all spend our first summer after leaving the EU Hi! I hope you’re all enjoying your final pre-Brexit summer! Oh, were you trying not to think about that? Yeah, me too. Sorry. Well, chin up! Brexit isn’t the end of the world! Not LITERALLY, anyway. Economically […]

British holidaymakers will see their favourite trips changed forever, so make the most of it while you can, says James Ball. As MPs and schoolchildren alike finally reach their summer holidays, millions of us will be looking towards the continent for a quick summer getaway – especially given the chances for all sorts of Brexit-related […]

Peace in Northern Ireland is still not a done deal, says Andrew Adonis, and Brexit poses its gravest threat Boris Johnson complained last week that Northern Ireland was ‘the tail wagging the dog’ of Brexit. This is the most irresponsible statement by a former minister in my lifetime. Had Johnson bothered to talk to those […]

If espousing politics was good enough for Muhammad Ali, it’s good enough for the presenter of Match of the Day “Stay in your lane”. That was the message from Katie Perrior, Theresa May’s former communications adviser, today in response to Gary Lineker coming out in favour of a People’s Vote on a Brexit deal. In […]

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Only a quarter of Brits believe Theresa May will secure a good Brexit deal, a poll has shown. Some 72% of Britons lack confidence in her ability to reach a good deal with Brussels, the worst rating the prime minister has had in the Ipsos MORI political monitor. Her personal approval rating also hit a […]

Liam Fox has been accused of “burning collective responsibility to the ground” after he issued a stark warning to Theresa May over Brexit negotiations Dr Fox warned the prime minister that extending talks would be a “complete betrayal,” of Brexit voters, telling Business Insider that she should commit to instead leaving the EU with no […]

Veteran political reporter TOM BALDWIN’s new book explores how the worlds of politics and media have been changed for the worse in the last decade. This exclusive serialisation analyses what went wrong Tom Baldwin is a writer and journalist, and former Labour Party advisor. He is now director of communications for the People’s Vote campaign. […]

Theresa May’s bid to win European allies on Brexit has suffered a setback after she was warned she will struggle to find “loopholes” in the EU’s approach to talks. The prime minister will discuss her plan for leaving the EU with Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Czech counterpart Andrej Babis as she seeks to build […]

The ‘Özil Affair’ has melded together the two topics that have dominated Germany’s lousy summer- football and immigration. IAN WALKER reports, from Munich, on where it could lead the country. It has been a summer to forget for Germany: the end of the country’s footballing invincibility, and of principles over politics. And Mezut Özil has […]

Steve Bannon has been alarming Europe with his plans for a new populist force. But there’s no need to worry, says former UKIP official GAWAIN TOWLER, who knows a thing or two about upsetting liberals Many people are worried that arch Trumpian Steve Bannon is in Europe and planning to create a movement to give […]

Sexism is a malevolent force within the Tory Brexit right, says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. I am feeling twinges of pity for our beleaguered PM. On Monday, she attempted to present a human face to ‘the people’. She went off to meet workers on the shop floor at a factory in Newcastle. They were free to ask […]

Activists have been protesting outside Boris Johnson’ official ministerial mansion – which he still lives in more than two weeks after he resigned as foreign secretary. The young campaigners from anti-Brexit youth groups For our Future’s Sake (FFS) and Our Future Our Choice (OFOC) were out in force with a removal van and dressed in […]

Facebook has handed over details of scores of shifty online ads targeted at its users by Brexiteers during the EU referendum campaign. The messages, handed to a House of Commons committee inquiry into fake news, confirm that Vote Leave relied heavily on its lie – even described as “misleading” by the official statistician – that […]

Tim Walker exclusively reveals that Danny Boyle is to direct James Graham’s controversial Brexit drama… and asks is the Daily Mail’s Paul Dacre about to take charge of the Telegraph? Boyle set to direct Brexit The Movie Confounding the doubters, Danny Boyle made the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Summer Olympics a national and […]

Aren’t you sick of hearing the phrase ‘will of the people’? It has been parroted by Leavers since the EU referendum – but the Brexit decision neither represents the views of the UK nor is it likely to become so. Here are ten reasons why politicians and Brexiteers need to quit using it: 1. The […]

Police are having to deal with more racist hate crimes following a rise in offences around the EU referendum, figures show. The latest Home Office data shows an increase in the number hate crimes reported to the police, where race is the motivating factor, during the year of the Brexit vote. In the 2016-17 financial […]

Bregrets? We have a few… but now a top French politician has said the UK can come back to the EU – and all will be forgiven. French Europe minister, Nathalie Loiseau, told Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘We have always said, always, that the door would remain open and that we were not the ones […]