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The boss of retailer Next is urging the government to let more foreign workers into the UK to ease labour shortages. more

London urge Brussels to unblock access to European scientific programmes for British researchers, which it says is provided for in the post-Brexit trade deal.more

British Northern Ireland Minister Chris Heaton-Harris confirmed yesterday that he will call new elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly, but will announce the date next week. They will probably be held in December, which would mean a second election this year.more

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary hailed the appointment of Rishi Sunak as British prime minister on Tuesday, saying he was glad the "Brexiteer wing" of government was on its way out and calling for a trade deal with Europe to end post-Brexit turmoil.more

Thousands of protesters have marched through central London calling for the UK to rejoin the EU. The national rejoin march on Saturday saw large crowds of people walk from Park Lane to Parliament Square. Marchers from across the UK travelled for hours to attend.more

British government ministers are being taken to court by a body chaired by the former leader of the Conservatives in the EU parliament, over allegations the government is breaking the law on EU citizens’ rights post-Brexit.more

Economic and Social Research Institute analysis found ‘substantial reduction in number of products traded’.more

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss admitted yesterday that a free trade agreement with the United States - which was cited as one of the main benefits of Brexit - is unlikely in the short to medium term.more

The UK has started a dispute resolution procedure with the European Union over "persistent delays" in accessing EU science programmes, the UK Foreign Office said today.more

The number of European Union citizens moving to the UK has fallen by up to 90 per cent since Brexit, according to Office for National Statistics estimates.more

The UK's Brexit divorce bill from leaving the EU could rise to £42.5bn, potentially adding billions to payments, the government says. more

The European Commission launched four new legal procedures against the UK today after the lower house of the UK Parliament passed a bill to end some rules governing post-Brexit trade deals for Northern Ireland.more

The British House of Commons adopted a bill on the Northern Ireland Protocol on Wednesday evening, which will allow the government to unilaterally introduce the proposed changes to this document. Following the submission of this draft, the EU initiated an infringement procedure.more

Experts of the Polish Economic Institute have warned that the UK faces a damaging recession later this year and raised fears that managers lacked experience in dealing with severe economic shocks.more

The outgoing director of the famous Edinburgh International Festival, Fergus Linehan, called on the British government to "urgently simplify UK visa rules". As he pointed out, the need for visas makes it difficult for artists to travel and creates new logistical challenges.more

The leader of the British opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer, explicitly ruled out Britain's re-entry into the European Union. Instead, it wants to make Brexit deliver the desired benefits.more

London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the party to push for a return to the EU single market, describing Brexit as “the biggest piece of self-inflicted harm ever done to a country”.more

British prime minister Boris Johnson claimed that the UK would have not been able to be at the forefront of providing support for Ukraine if it was still in the EU.more

A study of EU citizens living in the UK has revealed the “open wound” left by Brexit, with respondents saying the decision to leave the bloc had left them feeling betrayed, insecure and distrustful towards the country that most nonetheless still call home.more

Airport chaos which has seen constant flight delays and cancellations is “completely to do with Brexit”, the boss of the Ryanair airline has said.more

The UK has expressed disappointment that the European Union has reopened one suspended infringement procedure and launched two new proceedings in response to a draft law allowing the British government to unilaterally amend the Northern Ireland Protocol.more

Britain and the European Union were once again on the brink of a trade war over the Northern Ireland Protocol after the government in London - unable to persuade Brussels to renegotiate the agreement - decided to implement the proposed changes through a national law.more

Boris Johnson published plans to scrap parts of the post-Brexit deal he struck with the EU in 2020. The PM wants to change the Northern Ireland Protocol to make it easier for some goods to move between Britain and Northern Ireland.more

The UK government says it is not "currently considering" copying European Union plans for a common charging cable. more

The government has confirmed that a consultation which could pave the way for greater use of imperial measurements in post-Brexit Britain hava been launched on Friday.more