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Emergency powers may be needed to ensure patients can still get the medicines they need after a no-deal Brexit, the body representing health product distributors has warned. The Healthcare Distribution Association, which represents private companies supplying more than 90% of the medicines used in the NHS, warned that regulatory problems and transport hold-ups could result […]

The ability of police to tackle serious and organised crime could be “significantly impacted” by a no-deal Brexit, the chief of the National Crime Agency has warned. NCA director-general Lynne Owens said she was “deeply concerned” that withdrawal from the EU without a deal could deprive UK police of the use of tools like the […]

World-leading scientists have warned Theresa May not to allow Brexit to create new barriers to collaboration across Europe. Dozens of winners of the Nobel Prize have written to the prime minister and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker setting out their concerns. Their message was echoed by the London-based Francis Crick Institute, which warned that a […]

Theresa May has slapped down anonymous MPs who used violent imagery to describe a possible coup to unseat her. Weekend newspapers reported Tory backbenchers saying the prime minister would be “knifed” and that she should “bring her own noose” to a meeting with MPs to discuss her Brexit plans. The PM’s official spokesman said May […]

The number of Brits seeking to reclaim their German citizenship has leaped following the Brexit vote, it has been revealed. A German government response to opposition politicians published today says 1,667 people applied to Germany’s embassy in London last year to reclaim the citizenship they or their ancestors were stripped of by the Nazis. The […]

MPs are to go ahead with their week-long break in February despite it coming just weeks before Brexit. There had been speculation that the annual break would be dropped in order to allow time to push through vital Brexit legislation. But Commons leader Andrea Leadsom today told MPs that Parliament would rise on February 14 […]

Heading to the People’s Vote march on Saturday? Download our free placard and display it proudlyIn June more than 100,000 campaigners marched against Brexit. On Saturday organisers are expecting an even bigger crowd calling for a People’s Vote. Signs and banners are encouraged – for those less creative, why not download The New European’s placard, […]

Multimillionaire Hollywood actor Sir Michael Caine has weighed into the Brexit debate, saying he would rather be poor and outside the EU than rich and in it. The star, who has an estimated fortune of £57m, also repeated the long-since-dismissed claim by Brexiteers that getting a deal with the EU would be fine because of […]

Theresa May is facing a backlash from Brexiteers after indicating she is ready to consider extending Britain’s transition out of the EU for a further year, to the end of 2021. The prime minister told a crunch European Council summit in Brussels that she was “ready to consider” the extension floated by EU chief negotiator […]

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme tonight comes from Guildford in Surrey, hometown of The Stranglers. Will there be a European Female on the panel – or just another case of No More Heroes? Here’s who’s who and where […]

The public expects Britain to crash out of the EU without a deal and a rising proportion now expects living standards to drop, according to a major new study. The survey, by the Policy Institute at King’s College London, in partnership with Ipsos MORI and the UK in a Changing Europe, reveals what the public […]

A top health official has admitted concerns over medicine supplies after Brexit are keeping him awake at night. Sir Chris Wormald told MPs he also lost sleep about the impact quitting the EU would have on the NHS workforce as well as future arrangements about treating patients on their travels. The issues were the same […]

Tory hardliners have been dealt a blow after a senior US Treasury department official warned that a hard Brexit could hurt global financial stability. David Malpass, Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, said the US was working with officials in the UK and EU to limit the risks of Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc. The admission […]

Margaret Thatcher’s former press secretary has urged Theresa May to ditch diplomacy in Brexit talks with the EU and claimed the Northern Irish “might be glad of a hard border”. Sir Bernard Ingham, who served as Thatcher’s chief spinner from 1979 to 1990, also bizarrely claimed that the Union’s “Franco-German bosses and their lackeys” were […]

The return of a hard border in Northern Ireland would be a “political failure”, a former head of the Army has said. General Lord Richard Dannatt was commissioned into The Green Howards regiment in 1971, serving in Northern Ireland and receiving the Military Cross at the age of 22. His comments come days after reports […]

Comments like Brexiteer Boris Johnson’s letterbox remarks have fuelled hate crime, a Labour MP said today as it emerged it rose by nearly a fifth last year. David Lammy said politicians like the former foreign secretary must take responsibility for their language as police figures revealed there were 94,098 hate crime offences in total in […]

Older people are significantly less informed about the potentially disastrous impact of Brexit on their pets, a survey has revealed. The poll for the National Office of Animal Health showed just 9% of pet owners over 55 believe that the health of the UK’s pets could decline significantly as a result of Brexit, compared with […]

Theresa May is preparing to update her divided Cabinet on the Brexit deadlock as Brussels warned Britain is “more likely than ever before” to crash out of the EU without a deal. The prime minister has insisted an exit agreement is still “achievable” despite negotiations stalling just days ahead of a crunch summit. European Council […]

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme tonight comes from the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Yes, it’s the annual Scottish special in which the producers attempt to placate those who complain it ignores matters north of the border, only for […]

Growing numbers of voters want the government to negotiate a “soft” Brexit, new research has found. The survey found more than two fifths of voters (43%) would like Brexit negotiations to end with the UK in a close relationship with the remaining EU, along the lines of Norway’s membership of the European Economic Area. The […]

DUP MPs who prop up Theresa May’s government are preparing to vote against her budget if the prime minister breaks their Brexit red lines. The radical move is one of the options being considered by the DUP if attempts to nail down a deal with Brussels include any proposals that would leave Northern Ireland being […]

Brexit is an “intractable” problem which threatens to undermine America’s role as a major player in Europe’s security, former US vice president Joe Biden has said. Biden, who served as deputy to Barack Obama during his two terms in the White House, told an event in London that the special relationship between the UK and […]

Your holiday flights to Europe could be grounded in the event of an “unfriendly” Brexit, the head of the Whitehall spending watchdog has warned. Sir Amyas Morse, the head of the National Audit Office, said many existing arrangements with the EU would require “goodwill” on both sides if they were to continue if Britain leaves […]

U2 rocker Bono has called on artists to celebrate the “romance” of Europe at a time when the value of the EU has come under question. Visiting the European Parliament in Brussels, the singer hailed the European institutions as both a “brain… working to improve the lives of Europeans” and a “loudly beating heart” bringing […]

Britain is expected to lose around 5,000 City jobs by Brexit Day and could see its £72bn in annual taxes from the sector come under threat, the government has admitted. Treasury minister John Glen told a House of Lords committee that he backed a previous prediction by the Bank of England that around 5,000 financial […]

A university has won a year-long fight sparked after a Conservative MP and leading Brexiteer wrote to universities across the UK asking for the names of lecturers teaching courses on Brexit and the content of their lessons. The University of Worcester won its fight which came after Chris Heaton-Harris, a then government whip and member […]

A skeleton has emerged from the environment secretary’s closet in the form of an odd early 90s Channel 4 programme Remember when Michael Gove stole the rubbish from the front gardens of Sting, David Attenborough and Anita Roddick and rifled through their contents? Or when he compared Prince Charles to Hitler? Chances are you don’t. […]

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme tonight comes from London’s financial capital Canary Wharf, where the average salary is £100,000, the country’s biggest Waitrose has a temperature-controlled wine cellar and one restaurant, the Boisdale, boasts a cigar menu. But […]