Theresa May privately warned a month before the EU referendum that companies would leave the UK if the country voted for Brexit, according to a report in The Guardian.more
Bertie Ahern has urged the government to appoint a dedicated minister to deal with Brexit. The former taoiseach said that Ireland's interests would be best served by a single person concentrating on negotiations. Mr Ahern was speaking at a House of Lords EU select committee on Brexit's potential impact on UK-Irish relations.more
Two former members of the Bank of England interest rate-setting committee on what lies ahead for the UK after the EU referendum. These are still early days to determine what has happened to the UK economy after the Brexit vote because there are lags before any impact is felt; lags before there are measurable effects; and even longer lags until the data gets published. more
The impact of Britain's vote to leave the European Union will shave around 0.25 percentage points off growth in Germany, Europe's largest economy, in the coming year, a study quoted in a regional German newspaper suggested on Tuesday.more
British Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday that suggestions that Britain is heading for a "hard Brexit" are wrong, because the country does not stand before the "zero-one" choice between limiting immigration and a good trade agreement with the EU.more
The break-up of the European Union is a real possibility, warns German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in comments released ahead of their Monday publication in the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.more
The financial services industry is already planning to move business overseas due to the uncertainty of the Brexit process, the head of the British Bankers' Association has warned.
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A secret plan to slash corporation tax by half has been hatched as a "nuclear option" to counter threats that Brussels will impose a "brutal Brexit" on Britain.more
Britain's future terms of membership within the World Trade Organization will depend a lot on the terms of the separation between the European Union and London, the director-general of the WTO said on Friday.more
Murder rate rises 20%, knife crime 9% and gun crime 7% according to police recorded crime figures. Violent crime in England and Wales has risen by 24%, including a 9% rise in knife crime and a 7% rise in gun crime in the 12 months to June, according to police recorded crime figures.more
Nicola Sturgeon has today unveiled the Scottish Government's plans for a second independence referendum which would take place "before the UK leaves the EU" in just over two years.
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With Britain feeling like a hostile place, more Polish people are considering a move to Ireland. Polish workers are considering relocating to Ireland to escape perceived British hostility and the decline of sterling following the referendum on EU membership, according to a Cork-based charity for east Europeans.more
The government's announcement that tea, jam and biscuits will be at the centre of the UK's Brexit trade strategy has been ridiculed by critics as "embarrassing."more
David Davis, the Brexit secretary, said he would not be limiting the "free movement of brain power" and businesses will still be able to recruit talent from overseas after the UK leaves the EU.more
Parliament has the right to reject the final Brexit deal, No.10 has indicated for the first time - raising the possibility that Britain's EU exit could yet be halted.more
Britain's jobless rate remains at an 11-year low, as wages rise by 2.3%. There were 31.81 million people in work, 106,000 more than for March to May 2016 and 560,000 more than for a year earlier.more
Theresa May his set to cut immigration through a 'targeted visa system', according to a government document published on Tuesday. The Prime Minister has enlisted the help of a team of ministers, including the three leading Brexit campaigners Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox, to deal with the issue.more
Parts of Britain's car industry could move to southeast Europe if it loses access to the EU's single market in its divorce negotiations, the president of Germany's VDA auto industry association said. Prime Minister Theresa May has set a March deadline to begin the formal process to quit the European Union and carmakers are concerned that Britain is heading towards a "hard Brexit" which could exmore
Britain's food industry will be hit with a "triple whammy" of price hikes if the UK leaves the single market, say the Lib Dems. The price of chocolate, cheese and wine will increase sharply if Britain heads towards a so-called hard Brexit, according to Nick Clegg.more