Brexit


Culture

Fiction captures the forces that led to Brexit

Alan Hollinghurst, a Booker-prizewinning novelist, returns with a new, evocative yarn

Britain

Britain and the EU find it easier to talk about guns than butter

But closer ties in foreign and security policy are still not easy to forge

Leaders

The Labour government’s worrying lack of ambition in Europe

Sir Keir Starmer is trapped by the mindset of the post-Brexit years

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Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?

The European cause is hugely popular. Its proponents are strangely ineffective

By Invitation

This needn’t be France’s Brexit moment, says its business envoy

Pascal Cagni explains why foreign investors should not panic 

Britain

The inheritance awaiting Britain’s next government

A tour of the country—and of the past 14 years of Conservative rule

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Brexit is the only big legacy of the 2019-24 parliament

An abrupt election crimps the Tories’ already-slim legislative record

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Britain’s Reform UK party does not exist

But it is all the more powerful as a result

Britain

Why most people regret Brexit

A majority of British voters now believe the split was a mistake

Britain

Brexit finally becomes real for imports of EU goods into Britain

Exporters to the EU know what that means

Britain

Keir Starmer, Reform UK and Britain’s populist paradox

A country ripe for the radical right is on course to elect a centrist who wants a quieter politics

Briefing

Brexit? Hah! Lockdowns? Shrug! Can nothing stop London?

It has been bouncing back for 2,000 years and counting

Britain

The British Conservatives’ crisis over Rwanda is a rerun of Brexit

The Tory party has turned a niche policy into an existential matter. Sound familiar?

Britain

Post-Brexit Britain is splurging more on state aid

New figures show that Britain has become more European

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Is the Windsor framework in Northern Ireland working?

The new rules soften the Irish Sea border, but do not make it disappear

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