LONDON (AP) — Nigel Farage has unveiled 600 Brexit Party candidates for Britain's general election, and warned the governing Conservatives that the U.K. will never leave the European Union without his party's backing.
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economy after Brexit. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is calling instead for the U.K. to have "full access" to the single market. Critics say that is vague, and EU leaders have repeatedly said Britain can't have the benefits of membership without the responsibilities. More wra...
"What's first and foremost on our agenda is getting a food and agriculture and a veterinary agreement, because that's such an important area for the UK - and an area where we've had so much extra cost and bureaucracy because of Brexit," he explains. ...
"It's actually very unusual in the UK for parties to form pre-electoral pacts with each other. I think you can understand why Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage (leader of the Brexit Party) have come to some kind of understanding -- primarily because part of Boris Johnson's wish is to uni...
Truss, who campaigned against Brexit in the UK's 2016 referendum but has since become a fully-fledged supporter, has powerful backing within the parliamentary party but, like Rishi Sunak, is less popular with the Tory membership. The Labour Party is now calling for a vote of no ...
"The impact on the Conservative Party over the last few weeks is going to be pretty horrific for them because it has exposed huge divisions within the party between left and right, between pro-Brexit and anti-Brexit, between those who are sometimes regarded as the grown-ups and those who ...
And if that goes ahead – a scenario so desperately coveted by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and his adoring band of acolytes – then the UK wine trade has major problems. Many businesses have had to secure, twice now, contingency stocks and make arrangements in case of a no deal, all...
Chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said Tuesday that UK proposals for the future relationship are “unacceptable,” and the country is seeking to keep the benefits of the single market without the obligations. The United Kingdom “would like to make it easy to continue to run EU business...
The party leader Mary Lou McDonald told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that Brexit is an opportunity to unite Northern Ireland with the Republic. “A referendum on Irish unity will be absolutely essential”, she says, if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. “We have a situation where the...