Brexit

As politicians wrangle over the Brexit details, what do people away from Westminster make of its progress two years on from the referendum? We went to Brexit-backing Blackpool to find out.  

Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston, who backed Remain, and leading Tory Brexiteer, Jacob Rees-Mogg, discuss the Commons debate on the government’s EU withdrawal bill.

In Westminster, a government fearing defeat in the Commons made concessions to rebel Tory MPs to give the house more of a veto than it’s ever had over Brexit negotiations. Consequently a defeat on a number of Lords amendments to the EU withdrawal bill was avoided, but there are further votes tomorrow. This came after…

Theresa May has told anti-Brexit Conservative MPs that they will undermine her negotiations with the EU if they rebel on a series of crucial votes in the Commons over the next two days. The government is attempting to reverse a series of amendments made to the EU withdrawal bill by the House of Lords. Mrs May…

The millionaire businessman who campaigned and donated to the Brexit campaign is to appear before MPs on Tuesday to explain claims he held undisclosed meetings with Russian officials before the EU referendum. Details of the alleged meetings contained in emails published by the Sunday Times, come amid questions about possible Russian influence over the UK’s…

The backstop stops here. Or at least at the end of 2021. Or at least that’s the expectation – after ministers spent the morning in talks about the future of the Irish border. Rumours were flying around all morning that the Brexit secretary David Davis might resign unless the customs arrangement had a clear time limit. But Downing Street…

The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy says Britain is at the intellectual heart of Europe and needs to stay there. And he’s putting his views on stage. Last Exit Before Brexit depicts a speechwriter who has to give a keynote address at a conference about Brexit and can’t manage to write it.

MPs will only get one day to discuss and vote on all 15 Lords amendments to the EU withdrawal bill, after the government decided to cram the entire bill into a single session. Critics have accused the Prime Minister of trying to “railroad” her plans through parliament.

The Government has denied claims that a no-deal Brexit could leave Britain with severe shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies within a few days of leaving Europe. Advice from Whitehall officials leaked to the Sunday Times described the worst case scenario as ‘Armageddon’. But the Department for Exiting the EU called the claims “completely…

Susan Danger is from the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU in Brussels, and Robert Scott is from the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.