Brendan Donnelly In an interesting article in this weekend’s Sunday Times, its political correspondent Tim Shipman warns that the chances of a “no deal” Brexit are higher than usually assumed. He attributes this risk largely to misunderstandings by the EU…
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Brexit, transition and Ireland
by Brendan Donnelly 6th May 2020 Eight months before the end of the transition period the British government seems intent upon two courses of action which will exacerbate the inevitable political and economic damage to the United Kingdom when it…
Brexit: The British Government starts to recognise reality
Brendan Donnelly Michael Gove’s acknowledgement that trade between the UK and the EU after 1st January 2021 will be far from frictionless is a watershed in the Brexit process. The claim that Brexit would not significantly impinge upon British trade…
Brexit uncertainty slows UK challenger bank lending to £115bn
The amount of cash UK challenger banks lent to small firms and consumers edged up last year, held back by ongoing Brexit uncertainty and an anaemic economy, according to information gathered by LearnBonds.
ব্রেক্সিট: যুক্তরাজ্যে দেশের পোশাক রপ্তানিতে কী প্রভাব পড়বে?
সায়েদুল ইসলামবিবিসি বাংলা, ঢাকা বাংলাদেশ থেকে নিয়মিতভাবে যুক্তরাজ্যে তৈরি পোশাক রপ্তানি করে ইস্ট ওয়েস্ট গ্রুপ নামের একটি প্রতিষ্ঠান। সংস্থাটির কর্মকর্তারা বলছেন, এখনো দুই দেশের বাণিজ্যে কোন প্রভাব না পড়লেও, ভবিষ্যতে প্রভাব পড়ার আশঙ্কা রয়েছে।
Brexit: Rejoiners must learn from their mistakes
by Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust, 22nd January 2020 Many members of the “Remain Coalition” have been disappointed by the role played by the European issue in the leadership contest of the Labour Party. No candidate has suggested a…
Leaving Europe
by Paul Mason @paulmasonnews Paul Mason turns in his Social Europe column from postcapitalism to the theme of post-Brexit Britain. Since 2016 there’s been a question in the back of my mind: which is the last European city I will…
Brexit: The end of the beginning
by Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust For the outcome of last week’s General Election to have any chance of postponing or even preventing Brexit, four related pieces of the electoral jigsaw needed to fall into place. The Labour Party…
A fair Brexit
by Philippe van Parijs on 16th December 2019 @pvpbrussels For the free-market Tory right, Brexit is a means towards a beggar-my-neighbour buccaneering adventure—not ‘future relations’ to which the EU27 can agree.
The Brexit Election: Not all outcomes are equally bad
by Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust 27th November 2019 – Jeremy Corbyn has rarely in recent decades feared political controversy. On issues such as Ireland, the Middle East, NATO, income redistribution and renationalisation, he has advocated with candour and…
Brexit reveals Jeremy Corbyn to be the true moderate
By Jonathan Cook If there is an upside to Brexit, it is this: it has made it increasingly hard to present Jeremy Corbyn, contrary to everything the corporate media has been telling us for the past four years, as anything…
Torries strain a ceremonial monarch’s image over Brexit
London (AP/UNB) — Brexit divorce talks in Brussels are making such slow progress that three European Union nations predicted Monday the negotiations could spill beyond this week’s crucial Brexit summit. Belying the need for speed across the Channel, Britain trotted…
No-deal Brexit document published: The Poorest Most At Risk
Riots on the streets, food price rises and reduced medical supplies are real risks of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, a government document has said. Ministers have published details of their Yellowhammer contingency plan, after MPs voted…
UK Labour for Parliament recall as no-deal Brexit papers out
Labour has said it is “more important than ever” that Parliament is recalled after the government published its no-deal Brexit assessment.
Labour deputy Tom Watson for Brexit re-poll before election
Labour must prioritise reversing Brexit through another referendum, over winning power in a general election, its deputy leader Tom Watson is to say. He will warn that a snap election before the end of the year may fail to resolve…
Brexit and the left
by Neal Lawson on 23rd July 2019 The Labour Party has squandered three years in addressing the challenge posed by the Brexit referendum. The left is in a mess on Brexit—both in the UK and, despite lots of solidarity, in…
European Elections in the UK: A Brexit turning-point?
by Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust It is easy to sympathise with last week’s reluctance of President Macron and other EU-27 leaders to endorse an extension of the Article 50 Brexit negotiations until the end of October 2019. There…
Brexit, Trump and ‘yellow vests’
Sixty years ago, the sociologist WG Runciman published an influential study of attitudes to ’relative deprivation’ in 20th century England. Runciman sought to explain why at crucial periods in the past century, notably after the first world war and in…
Brexit uncertainty risks UK rights
The United Kingdom Parliament’s decision on Tuesday night to reject decisively the European Union withdrawal agreement leaves the country’s future up in the air.
Brexit: Theresa May faces ‘meaningful vote’ on her deal
MPs are preparing to vote on whether to back Theresa May’s deal for leaving the European Union.The so-called “meaningful vote” will take place later as five days of debate on Brexit comes to an end.
Britain testing ‘no-deal’ scenario as Brexit vote nears
Britain is testing how its motorway and ferry system would handle a no-deal Brexit by sending a stream of trucks from a regional airport to the port of Dover — even as some legislators try to pressure the government to…
Brexit: A national government or “no deal”
In a recent article for the New York Times, the distinguished historian of the Conservative Party, Professor Tim Bale, argued that the “will to power” of the Conservative Party would enable it in the long term to reconstruct its inner…
UK PM’s Brexit ‘letter to the nation’
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has penned a letter to the nation setting out why she thinks the public should back her Brexit deal. Here is the full letter. “When I became your Prime Minister the United Kingdom had just…
What the EU really thinks about Brexit
A major problem in the Brexit debate since June 2016 is how 95 percent of reporting and discussion in the UK media has been about internal Westminster politics. Occasionally space is found for a brief interview with a minister or…
Brexit: The beginning of the end?
In the documents released this week by the British government and the EU there is a striking contrast between the detailed and specific nature of the proposed Withdrawal Agreement (WA) and the cursory, imprecise nature of the accompanying Political Declaration…
Why Brexit won’t cure Britain’s broken economic model
Simon Deakin explains in this audio podcast that Britain’s low-wage, low productivity economy is the result of 40 years of neoliberal economic policies. While some on the Left think that Brexit will allow a reset of British economic policy, this…
Trump told me to sue the EU: May
Donald Trump told Theresa May she should sue the EU rather than negotiate over Brexit, she has told the BBC. The US president said on Friday at a joint press conference he had given her a suggestion – but she…
Vote Leave ‘broke spending limits’
Vote Leave broke the law during the EU referendum by exceeding legal spending limits, a Brexit activist has claimed. Shahmir Sanni told Channel 4 News that the official Brexit campaign used a different group, BeLeave, to overspend. Vote Leave chief…
Brexit infecting government, says Lord Adonis
Brexit is “infecting” the whole conduct of government, Lord Adonis has told the BBC in the wake of his resignation as infrastructure advisor. The Labour peer quit his role as chairman of the government’s Infrastructure Commission with an attack on…
UK ministers to launch post-Brexit economy plan
The government’s plan to boost UK industry ahead of the country leaving the EU is due to be launched later. The industrial strategy is aimed at lifting growth, which official forecasts suggest will slow due to the UK’s poor productivity…