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Scores of vulnerable asylum seekers, including suspected victims of trafficking, are scheduled to be deported this week as the home secretary Priti Patel ramps up removal operations ahead of Brexit.more

The Army could be used to help transport further stocks of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine from Belgium to the UK, a Foreign Office minister says.more

The European Union’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told national envoys to the bloc’s hub Brussels on Monday morning there was no agreement yet in UK trade talks, a senior diplomat told Reuters.more

A major breakthrough has been made in Brexit negotiations on the rights of European fleets to fish in UK waters, EU sources said last night, leaving a Franco-German demand that Britain follow EU laws as the final hurdle to a historic trade and security deal.more

The Covid vaccine will reach everyone in the UK who needs it - whatever the outcome of post-Brexit trade talks, the medicines regulator head has vowed.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday to try to secure a breakthrough in the Brexit talks.more

Less than four weeks before the end of the post-Brexit transition period, it is not known what the relationship between the UK and the European Union will look like from 1 January. It is not even known whether the negotiators are getting closer to the agreement or are moving away from it. According to British government sources, EU negotiators are responsible for this critical situation.more

City Hall has told London Labour MPs that the public “overwhelmingly” wants them to back a Brexit deal, as Keir Starmer tries to avert a damaging party rift on the issue.more

France has threatened to veto a possible "bad" deal on the EU-UK trade deal after Brexit. Trade negotiations between Brussels and London are ongoing.more

Brexit trade talks are facing total collapse over Boris Johnson’s new plans to tear up commitments he made to the EU at the beginning of the year.more

EU citizens who want to stay in the UK after Brexit, continue to live and work here, are required to register for the EU Settlement Scheme. And while the official deadline by which this can be done is June 30, 2021, the Mayor of London and the Home Office (British Home Office) advise not to wait until the last minute.more

Nicola Sturgeon has kept open the possibility she will launch her push for Scottish independence in a referendum next year. The first minister said she was not ruling the possibility out, but warned "we don't know" yet when the pandemic will end so while coronavirus grips the world her "energies are focused on that".more

The new immigration system will ensure that people most needed by the economy will enter the labor market, regardless of the passport, and immigration will not be an alternative to offering jobs to those present - explains the British Immigration Minister Kevin Foster. The new regulations enter into force on January 1, 2021.more

First-year EU students who enrolled in UK universities this autumn but have been unable to move to the country due to the pandemic face an £800 Brexit bill shock if they don’t set foot on British soil before 31 December, campaigners have warned.more

According to the latest data, published yesterday on the British government website, from August 28, 2018 to September 30, 2020, applications for settled status were submitted by 4 million 62 thousand people. Most of them (91%) are EU nationals residing in England, 5% in Scotland, 2% in Wales and 2% in Northern Ireland.more

Britain is not accepting an offer by European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier who is proposing that 15-18% of the value of fish quota that European fleets catch in British waters be restored to the United Kingdom, The Sun newspaper reported.more

Changes in the rules of trade with Great Britain from the new year will take place regardless of whether it will conclude an agreement with the European Union or not, so it is important that Polish companies follow the situation and prepare for them - emphasizes Arkady Rzegocki, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in London.more

EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said today that "major divergences remain" in EU-UK talks on a post-Brexit deal, but both sides are working hard to reach an agreement.more

International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has secured an agreement for a continuity trade deal with “friend and ally” Canada.more

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that despite the progress, there is still a lot of work to be done to reach an agreement with the UK. With just over a month before the end of the transition period, the negotiations are under increasing pressure.more

Spain, the UK and Gibraltar have found a way for cross-border workers to retain the same labour rights as before Brexit.more

Boris Johnson has come under fire for reportedly telling a virtual meeting of Conservative MPs that devolution had been a "disaster" in Scotland.more

Boris Johnson has reiterated he is "confident the UK will prosper" outside the EU if a post-Brexit trade deal is not agreed with the bloc.more

Prince Charles called Sunday for Britain and Germany to remember their long and close ties, reaffirmed by the nations’ reconciliation after two world wars, as the U.K. tries to find its place outside — but also alongside — the European Union. more

There has been “some progress” this week in UK-EU post-Brexit trade talks, according to UK chief negotiator David Frost. Frost tweeted today that the two sides “largely have common draft treaty texts, though significant elements are of course not yet agreed” and that talks will restart today in Brussels.more