A British lawyer launched legal action in Ireland on Friday in a bid to force the European Court of Justice to rule on whether or not Britain can reverse Brexit even after starting negotiations with Brussels.more
The prime minister will make a much anticipated speech "setting out more" on the government's Brexit plans next week, Downing Street has confirmed.more
A spokeswoman for the British prime minister Theresa May announced yesterday that the government "is confident that it will keep a schedule starting with the European Union", regardless of the Supreme Court judgment on the conflict of competence for notification intention to leave the EU.more
Downing Street has moved to distance itself from a proposal by the immigration minister for a £1,000-a-year levy on every EU skilled worker recruited by British employers after Brexit.more
The top priority in Brexit negotiations for the 27 countries remaining in the European Union must be to hold the bloc together, even if this means they suffer one-off economic hits, Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said in a policy paper.more
Jeremy Corbyn will use his first speech of 2017 to claim that Britain can be better off outside the EU and insist that the Labour party has no principled objection to ending the free movement of European workers in the UK.more
Donald Trump's team have reassured Boris Johnson that the US will seek a trade deal with the UK as fast as possible following Brexit. The President-elect's key aides told the Foreign Secretary in America that Britain would be "front of the line" when it became possible to negotiate.more
The return of a "hard border" between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic looks inevitable if Britain leaves the European Union's single market, Ireland's European Union Commissioner, farm chief Phil Hogan, was quoted as saying on Monday.more
British diplomats are secretly trying to negotiate the UK back into the European Union, a former Tory Cabinet minister has claimed. Officials tasked with negotiating the UK out of the EU may actually be attempting to keep Britain part of the 28-member bloc, former trade secretary Peter Lilley said.more
Clothing retailer Next has warned shoppers they could face price rises of up to 5 per cent in 2017 following the decline in the value of the pound after the UK voted to leave the EU, with cost pressures likely hitting annual profits by up to 14 per cent.more
Sir Ivan Rogers has quit just months before Theresa May triggers formal Brexit negotiations with the EU in which he would have been expected to play a major role. more
A deep-seated fear of the rise of global fascism has taken hold of the British public in the wake of Donald Trump's victory, Brexit and the spectre of the far-right in mainland Europe, an exclusive survey for The Independent has revealed.more
The result of this year's referendum on the exit of Great Britain from the European Union revived resorts in Spain. Britons are increasingly buying property in the famed tourist destinations of the Iberian country.more
Arguments about Brexit may have split the nation but they are also causing relationship rifts as couples fight about the EU referendum result. Troubled couples seeking help from Relate's relationship counselling services discussed difficulties with communication, their sex lives, affairs and mental health problems. more
A man has phoned into a radio station and admitted, live on air, that he had committed electoral fraud during the Brexit referendum. Umi, from Hackney in London, told LBC he had used both his and his brother's vote on 23 June - committing the offence of personation.more
Brexit can bring benefits, but also a serious threat to the Polish economy - said prof. Stanislaw Mazur. In turn, prof. Andrzej Piasecki notes that this process can have a negative impact on the economy of Germany, the largest trading partner of Poland.more
A right-wing think tank that campaigns for tougher immigration controls has been accused of risking the livelihoods of thousands of British people.more