Weakened Merkel bad news for Brexiters
It won’t just take months to negotiate complex three-party coalition. New government will be just as opposed to cherry picking as last.
Brexiter hopes that Merkel will ride to rescue to be dashed
Farage and his ilk are living in a parallel universe when they think German elections will produce a sea-change in EU’s approach to Brexit.
Brexit talks are bogged down at the first hurdle
UK negotiators seem to be involved in deliberate delaying tactics, even as the clock ticks towards its final deadline.
‘Halt Brexit’ appeal from north of the border
Scottish civic society calls for a national debate on how to stop the EU exit negotiations and think again.
Brass plates won’t satisfy EU bank regulators
Finance houses will have to assume the worst and move thousands of jobs from London if they are going to be prepared for an uncertain Brexit outcome.
The peril of the chocolate orange
Brexit is threatened by massive administrative overload, and a fundamental failure of co-ordination between government departments
Relying on the DUP is reckless gamble for May
Embracing Ulster loyalists at Westminster would limit her room for manoeuvre on Brexit and endanger the Northern Irish peace process.
Two election winners meet in Berlin
Merkel and Macron agree on Brexit: their top priority is to revive Franco-German relations and preserve the European Union
No deal in sight for the Irish border problem
Everyone agrees a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic is a bad idea, but no one knows how to avoid it after Brexit
May vs Corbyn: the vacuous meets the hopeless
Prime minister won’t spell out her plans for future EU-UK relations, while opposition leader is too confused to hold her to account.
Spot the secretive bureaucracy: EU or Whitehall?
In contrast with Theresa May’s dangerous obsession with secrecy, Brussels is open, transparent and always inclined to leak a good story.
Merkel spells out the obvious
German chancellor stresses tough terms, short time for Brexit negotiations.