TAG: Customs Union
UK ‘nowhere near’ renegotiating trade deal with EU, says David Lammy
LONDON — The Labour government has promised to “reset relations” with the European Union, eight tumultuous years after the U.K. voted to leave the bloc.But speaking on Thursday morning, just hours before he was preparing to welcome dozens of European lead...
2 months ago
The UK’s Brexit dream is dead
LONDON — British voters head to the polls Thursday for their first general election outside the European Union. But in so many ways, the Brexit dream has already died.All the key Vote Leave characters have left the stage. Five years after winning a landsl...
2 months ago
Brussels questions whether Starmer really wants a Brexit reset
LONDON — Keir Starmer says he wants to “reset” Britain’s relationship with Europe. But two months into his premiership, the EU is starting to wonder whether he really means it.EU officials and diplomats have told POLITICO they are increasingly doubtful th...
1 month ago
Nigel Farage is right: Britain’s Remainers are back
LONDON — For successive Tory governments, the most feared parliamentary tribe was the European Research Group. For the best part of a decade after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, the pro-Brexit ERG was by far the most organized of the Conserva...
3 weeks ago
British government split over new-look Brexit deal
LONDON — Keir Starmer heads to Brussels Wednesday on a mission fraught with political danger: the prospect of a new youth mobility scheme.For some, the revived plan would be a joyous breakthrough after years of testy relations between the European Union a...
2 weeks ago