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Of all the pundits’ takeaways we are left with from the US presidential election, certainly the two daftest have to be that a win for Joe Biden would mean bye-bye to Brexit and simultaneously signals the end of populism as a global political force. To be completely clear, neither of …

Without meaning any offence in any form to the good people of Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver, the suggestion that, after 45 years of EU membership, the UK should be looking to replace that relationship and all it entails with a bare bones, Canada-style trade deal is, frankly, insulting. We are …

That warm fuzzy feeling of togetherness which saw families during the coronavirus lockdown venture outside their homes to bang pots and pans, clap and cheer in support of heroic strangers doing unthinkable tasks is well and truly gone. We now hate each other more than ever. We hate people on …

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled legislation that would break parts of the Brexit divorce treaty with the European Union relating to Northern Ireland. He blamed the EU for putting a revolver on the table in trade talks and trying to divide up the United Kingdom. Johnson also told The …

Around 68 percent of those who abide by the lockdown rules have “strong negative views” about people who violate the restrictions, the survey by the think tank Demos revealed. The same goes for face masks, with 58 percent of respondents who use protective gear saying they have “severely negative attitudes …

Almost everyone concedes that playing hardball to achieve your own ends is an acceptable part of the game on the field of international trade negotiations. But when the dust settles after battle, the parties involved, though perhaps bitter opponents earlier, are implicitly obliged to stand by the deal as finally …

“These were really extraordinary comments, and certainly set off alarm bells in Dublin. I think they have backfired,” Ireland’s deputy prime minister, Leo Varadkar, said on Wednesday while speaking to RTE. On Tuesday, the UK’s Northern Ireland minister, Brandon Lewis, admitted that Britain could break international law in a “limited …

“The negotiations are not advancing because of an intransigent and, let’s be clear, unrealistic attitude of the United Kingdom,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday. The rebuke came during a speech to French ambassadors based in Europe, which Le Drian delivered during a workshop he conducted alongside …

In certain circumstances, you trust others blindly. On a plane, you don’t ask the pilot to prove they’re capable of navigating the skies, you take a leap of faith. It’s the same when you’re wheeled into hospital and a surgeon stands over you, wielding a scalpel. The British public – …

If Queen Elizabeth II approves the document, the UK will leave the EU at 23:00 on January 31. The British Parliament in a vote on Wednesday, January 22, endorsed lobbied Prime Minister Boris Johnson a bill under the terms of the Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, according to British …