Price hikes or bust farmers? Another miserable Brexit choice
Pro-Brexit ministers are at loggerheads over no-deal tariffs. Fox wants to slash and burn, Gove wants farmers protected. Neither is good.
Brexit is uncharted waters for ‘scallop wars’ fishermen
Today scallop fishers have specific rights to fish in French waters. Brexit could torpedo their fisheries access and viability of exports.
Car industry could be devastated by May’s hard Brexit
Pulling out of single market and customs union will mess up both the auto industry’s exports to the EU and its just-in-time manufacturing.
EU will wring more billions from UK before talks move on
Because of our weak position, we’ll have to double or treble £18bn we’ve already effectively promised to break deadlock.
May threatens no deal, but has no plan
Customs white paper shows government has understood perils of cliff edge, but their only answers are wishful thinking.
‘EU needs us more than we need it’ untruth unravelling fast...
In referendum Brexiters peddled falsehood that EU needs us more than we need it. Now they plead for flexibility and scream blackmail.
Weekly round-up: Scotland, trade deficits, £36bn divorce
InFacts looks back at all the Brexit developments in the week from August 6 to 11.
The great Scotland-London wrestling match
Talks between London and Holyrood over EU powers will likely get heated, with Scottish resistance capable of destabilising Brussels talks.
Letter: Brexit isn’t good news for Britain
Daniel Hannan’s claim that it is chiefly opponents of Brexit who attribute the referendum vote to anti-immigration feelings is extraordinary
Gove plots treacherous course for fishing after Brexit
Returning to government as environment secretary, the former Vote Leave frontman takes an unhelpful plunge into fisheries policy.
10 reasons not to fall back on WTO
Brexiters breezily envisage falling back on WTO rules if trade talks with EU fail. This is a dangerous fallacy. UK would pay a heavy price.
Whisper it, but Europe’s economy is coming back
Brexiters should admit that Europe’s quickening growth is good news for the UK too.