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Brexit

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Chris Giles
    Don’t believe the myth: Britain’s services have been hit hard by Brexit

    Export growth has been strong but not lived up to its potential

    Anti-Brexit campaigners protest at Westminster
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump deal to leave EU facing higher tariffs than UK

    Brussels is not expecting same access to US market as British steel, cars and other products

    Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    French politics
    Macron urges Britain and France to move on from Brexit and work ‘side by side’

    French president says two countries have ‘special responsibility’ for security of Europe

    French President Emmanuel Macron addresses parliament in the Palace of Westminster, London
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    EU trade
    EU blocks Britain’s attempts to join pan-European trading bloc

    The PEM convention would reduce exporters’ post-Brexit difficulties with supply chains

    Freight lorries queue at the Port of Dover
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    News in-depthEU trade
    Switzerland stirs Brexit ghosts in push for EU access

    Referendum looms on single market deal that includes concessions on money, migration and judicial power

    Aerial view of Basel
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Merz ‘delusional’ over US sparing German cars in EU trade deal

    Brussels has warned German chancellor not to expect UK-style carve-out for car sector in EU deal with Donald Trump

    Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks with US President Donald Trump before the Nato summit earlier this week
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    News in-depthUK trade
    UK to focus new trade strategy on boosting services exports

    Trade minister Douglas Alexander says policy will also involve strengthening anti-dumping defences amid Trump’s tariff war

    Douglas Alexander
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    Gibraltar
    Goods for Gibraltar must pass through Spain under post-Brexit deal

    The Rock will also raise sales tax to avoid unfair competition

    Workers cross the border from Spain to Gibraltar
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Flicker of hope for young Brits wanting to work in EU

    UK government is working on deal with EU enabling young people to live and work freely in mainland Europe again

  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    Media
    ‘Remainer’ paper New European rebrands to push beyond Brexit roots

    Title formed after 2016 UK vote is relaunching as The New World to reflect coverage of global politics and culture

    A paper copy of The New European
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    UK public policy
    UK doing physical checks on just 5% of imported animals, watchdog says

    National Audit Office calls for ministers to take ‘urgent’ action to combat biosecurity threat

    A close-up of cows in a field
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    UK trade
    BoE governor urges UK government to seek closer trade ties with EU

    Andrew Bailey makes case for minimising negative effects of Brexit

    Andrew Bailey
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    The UK’s trade performance remains dire

    Deals struck recently with the US, EU and India will not make a significant difference to Britain’s parlous position

    Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    The Weekend Essay
    Britain and Europe are moving beyond Brexit. Now for the real trade-offs

    This week’s ‘reset’ deal is a welcome return to pragmatism. But both sides must go further in facing up to the new world order

    A man wearing jeans, blue top and cap sits on the grass looking out to sea
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Political Fix podcast32 min listen
    Is Labour’s post-Brexit reset a victory or a betrayal?

    Plus: Starmer’s Chagos deal

  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    UK seeks to sell ‘Ozymandian’ Brexit checkpoint after EU deal

    Site in Kent was built to carry out food checks that will no longer be needed

    Freight trucks queue up at Dover Port
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Janan Ganesh
    Britain will be negotiating with Europe forever

    Like a poorer Switzerland, the UK will never find a happy balance of independence and access

    Carl Godfrey illustration of two linked bubble speeches, one with the UK flag in and the other with the EU flag in.
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    UK will not rejoin EU customs union, Starmer says

    Prime minister says move would ‘undo’ benefits from recent trade deals with India and US

    Sir Keir Starmer
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Deal to let Brits skip EU passport queues would have happened without post-Brexit accord

    Broader reform of European border checks that has been planned for years would allow use of ‘e-gates’

    E-gates in use at Heathrow airport
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s small wins fail to ease tight fiscal spot

    Party’s position on free movement limited by domestic political constraints and misses potential aid to growth

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, left, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Council president António Costa stand during a visit aboard the British Royal Navy’s HMS Sutherland frigate, London
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    How the UK and EU thrashed out a post-Brexit reset in relations

    Keir Starmer’s big concession on fishing came as bloc offered better trade terms for British food exporters

    Montage shows a handshake against a backdrop of the EU and UK flags
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    A warning shot to the Treasuries market

    US borrowing costs climb after Moody’s credit rating downgrade

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    UK and EU agree post-Brexit reset at showpiece summit

    Starmer accused of ‘surrender’ by the Tories after finalising new arrangements on fisheries and agriculture

    Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president António Costa
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    What the post-Brexit reset deal means for the UK

    Agreement spans food, fishing, defence and youth mobility, but much remains to be finalised

    Montage shows pound notes, pigs, fish and a wind farm in the colours of the EU flag
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A first step towards rebuilding UK-EU ties

    Hard-fought reset lays bare the realities of the post-Brexit relationship

    Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen
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