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Brexit & Foreign Policy

Brexit anniversary

Brexit anniversary: 60% of people think UK’s EU departure has gone badly wrong

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 December, 2021

From shortages of HGV drivers to tackle the petrol crisis, to empty supermarket shelves, 2021 has been awash with Brexit disruption. It comes as little surprise that six in ten voters say Brexit has gone badly wrong.

Liz Truss

New Brexit minister said exiting EU would be an economic disaster

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 December, 2021

Liz Truss is a former Remainer who announced a series of dismal warnings about the consequences of Brexit during the 2016 referendum campaign.

EU citizens in UK

Government faces legal action over Home Office’s treatment of EU citizens in UK

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 December, 2021

A statutory body created to protect the rights of EU citizens living in Britain post-Brexit has launched a legal challenge against the Home Office.

Brexit

Leave voters turn their back on Johnson’s Brexit deal – report finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 December, 2021

After living with the UK-EU trade deal for almost a year, opinion among Brexiteers on the merits of the deal negotiated by Prime Minister is leaning from approval to disproval.

El Pais newspaper reacts to the scandal

‘Lost credibility’: Europe reacts to the Downing Street Christmas party fiasco

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 December, 2021

A glance at the European newspapers shows the backlash over the No. 10 Christmas party controversy isn’t confined to British soil.

Young people deprived of opportunities to work in Europe

Seasonal jobs for young Britons in EU battered by Brexit, says travel industry

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 November, 2021

Young people’s opportunities to work in temporary jobs in the European Union have been significantly limited by Brexit bureaucracy, businesses in the travel sector reveal.  

Empty supermarket shelves show the true cost of Brexit

Brexit swipes £17bn off UK trade with EU in 3 months – watchdog finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 November, 2021

A spending watchdog has confirmed the devastating impact Brexit has had on UK trade with Europe.

Northern Ireland protocol crisis worsens as row unfolds on Twitter

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 October, 2021

The clash between ministers over the NI protocol intensified over the weekend, with key negotiators thrashing out their differences on Twitter.

Lord Frost

Conservative conference: Frost confesses Northern Ireland protocol in falling apart

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 October, 2021

Setting the scene for the imminent triggering of Article 16, Lord Frost’s conference speech has triggered a hostile response, derided as ‘inflaming tension while solving nothing.’

Fears grow for patient welfare after Northern Ireland medicine problems continue

Alexandra Warren
5 September, 2021

Stormont’s Health Minister said he had “deep concerns about the risk to patient health and maintaining vital medical supplies”.

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