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Brexit

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Keir Starmer to hold talks with the EU on defence co-operation

    British premier will accept an invitation by the bloc to discuss security matters, in the latest sign of improving relations

    Sir Keir Starmer
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Farmers gather in Whitehall in latest protest against UK Budget tax changes

    Tractors park up in main London thoroughfare in rally opposing government inheritance tax reforms

    Tractors are driven through Westminster on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK energy
    EU advises members not to give UK greater access to energy market

    Brussels says its ‘no cherry picking’ rule should apply to co-operation on electricity trading

    Wind turbines off the coast of Scotland
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    UK trade
    Reeves calls on EU to give greater access for City of London

    Plea comes in first appearance by a UK chancellor at a Euro finance meeting since Brexit

    Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    EU will demand early fish deal in UK reset talks

    Requirement among red lines drawn up by Brussels ahead of 2025 negotiations

    Fishing in the North Sea
  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    Rachel Reeves to pledge ‘ambitious’ economic partnership with EU

    UK chancellor will promise to fully honour post-Brexit deals in meeting with bloc’s finance ministers

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    UK trade
    UK’s balanced trade with US reduces risk of fresh Trump tariffs, says Reynolds

    Focus on services may mean Britain does not face ire of incoming US president, business secretary tells FT summit

    Jonathan Reynolds speaking to George Parker at the FT Global Boardroom
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    UK chemicals sector doubts Starmer ‘reset’ will end Brexit blues

    Businesses say regulatory and customs frictions will barely be eased if Labour government sticks to red lines on EU

    Richard Lock, managing director and COO of Holiferm
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    EU digs in on student fees as UK youth mobility talks near

    Brussels is willing to make small concessions over naming of scheme and length of stay

    Graduates from Imperial College London
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    John Springford
    What Britain can learn from France about growth

    Planning reform by itself is not enough to supercharge the UK economy

    People crossing Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Starmer to be invited to meet EU leaders to discuss European defence

    Significant post-Brexit move comes as Brussels seeks closer ties with UK

    Keir Starmer speaks at a podium, flanked by the UK and EU flags
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Michael Ellam tapped up to be UK’s next ‘EU sherpa’

    If appointed, Gordon Brown’s former communications chief would lead reset talks with Brussels

    Michael Ellam
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    The Big Read
    The UK’s high-wire act between the US and Europe

    Post-Brexit Britain faces stark strategic choices with Trump taking office. Walking a line between both powers will be tricky

    Keir Starmer standing at a lectern with just him standing out from the dark background
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    The State of Britain
    It’s time for the UK to make some radical choices Premium content

    The incoming Trump presidency should force the UK government to overcome its cautiousness

    Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    How Britain squandered the best hand in the world

    Having had three friends in high places — the US, the EU and China — the UK contemplates life with none

    A map of Britain in green with the rest of the world faded into a blue background
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    UK trade
    UK ‘exposed’ in event of global trade war, warns business secretary

    PM Keir Starmer says Britain could maintain ties with both US and EU in potential transatlantic tariff dispute

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    UK politics
    Starmer vows to ‘stay the course’ on tax-hiking Budget measures

    Prime minister will defend ‘hard decisions’ in speech to Welsh Labour conference on Saturday

    Sir Keir Starmer
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Inside Politics
    UK ministers admit to Brexit pains, but the relief is on hold

    Pro-Europeans granted opening to campaign on single issues that strengthen UK-EU ties

    A person wears a shirt featuring the union flag, EU stars and the phrase ‘Better Before Brexit’ on the back
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Chancellor and BoE governor call for UK to rebuild ties with EU

    Reeves and Bailey highlight damage from Brexit amid concern about Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on trading partners

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves during her Mansion House speech
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    UK political party funding
    JCB boss funded £8,000 helicopter flight for Nigel Farage

    Donation ahead of meeting came days before Bamford urged Tories to do deal with Reform UK leader

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, left, and Lord Anthony Bamford
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    Donald Trump, the final facilitator of Brexit

    Britain must relearn the art of the deal or risks being buffeted by big power politics

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Trump’s hair as a tsunami over Westminster
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    UK to retain post-Brexit French school trips scheme

    Britain to retain arrangements that cut red tape and were put in doubt by new entry requirements for EU travellers

    French school children
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Review
    Immigration: How British Politics Failed — Cameron, Corbyn and others on what went wrong

    Former prime ministers and advisers discuss 30 years of misjudged policies and promises in BBC two-parter

    A crowded dingy carries passengers in life jackets across the ocean
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    The British government’s Trump dilemmas

    Relations with both the US and EU are now called into question

    President Donald Trump inspects an honour guard during a welcome ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London in 2019
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    British farming needs a clearer future

    A furore over inheritance tax is obscuring more fundamental questions

    Spinach harvesting on farmland near Dorchester, in southern England
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