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Brexit stalemate casts shadow over local U.K. elections
May 02, 2019Voters are expected to crack down harshly on Theresa May's Conservatives in Thursday's local elections.
Read moreBrexit plot twist: 400-year-old parliamentary rule throws vote into chaos
March 19, 2019The British Parliament faces fresh chaos, EU leaders stare in disbelief, and the people of the U.K. have no idea what comes next.
Read moreBrussels or bust: Workers suffer consequences as Brexit draws near
February 21, 2019By 2021, the Honda plant in Swindon will be a shuttered, empty shell and 7,000 workers will be jobless.
Read morePossible Brexit concessions in the works on Northern Ireland
October 09, 2019European governments are prepared to accept a unilateral revocation of the withdrawal treaty as long as both communities—unionists and Irish nationalists—agree to it.
Read moreParliament seizes control of Brexit as a million people call for second referendum
March 27, 2019In London, a million rallied for a Brexit rethink. In Brussels, chants in French, Dutch, Spanish, Romani, and more were all saying the same thing: “We are all European.”
Read moreBrexit: An Easter Holiday reprieve as pressure mounts from across the pond
April 18, 2019All is quiet on the Brexit front...for now.
Read moreBrexit déjà vu: U.K. and EU reach “new” deal, awaits parliamentary approval
October 17, 2019The midnight oil was burning in Brussels, Belgium as Britain and the European Union finally hammered out a tentative new Brexit deal early Thursday.
Read moreBrexit: Johnson’s Conservatives splinter, but Labour’s path remains unclear
September 06, 2019If an election is fought only on the issue of Brexit and not any of the concerns that motivated many working people to vote for leaving the EU in the first place (like job loss), then Johnson could win.
Read moreJohnson’s “fair and reasonable” Brexit compromise falls on deaf ears
October 04, 2019“Deal or no deal, this Government’s agenda is clear: they want a Trump Deal Brexit,” said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Read moreLondon Calling: Talking Brexit with the Communist Party of Britain’s Robert Griffiths
March 25, 2019The Communist leader says that not everyone who voted for Brexit is a racist and that Theresa May is carrying out a half-Brexit at the behest of big business.
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