Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of plotting to undo Brexit as the Labour government sets out its policy on Europe. Critics argue that if the PM gives the green light to joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention (PEM), a European customs scheme, for example, Britain’s global trading capabilities would suffer.
Only three in 10 Brits still say it was right for the UK to leave the European Union, according to a new poll. That’s the lowest support for Brexit recorded since 2016, when the EU referendum happened and the country narrowly voted (52% to 48%) to leave.
One in six Leave voters (18%) now say that it was wrong for Britain to choose to leave the EU, however, 66% still say Britain made the right decision. Younger voters are particularly critical of Brexit, with three-quarters of 18-24 year olds saying Britain was wrong to leave, compared with just one in ten who believe it was the right decision.
Lord Sugar has described Brexit as “the biggest disaster of my lifetime” on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the UK leaving the European Union. The Apprentice star said the move had damaged Britain’s economy and insisted he would be going “on bended knee” to Brussels asking to rejoin the bloc if he was prime minister.
Alan Sugar has labelled Brexit the "biggest disaster of my lifetime" and has urged Keir Starmer to get the UK back in the European Union.
Lawyers for the European Union on Tuesday told an arbitration tribunal that Britain's ban of fishing for sandeels in its North Sea waters breached an agreement on fishing rights both sides struck after Brexit.
The EU and the UK is taking part in an arbitration hearing in The Hague in a dispute over the UK ban on sandeel fishing in its waters.
The row was triggered when Britain barred EU fishermen from catching sand eels in English and Scottish waters last March
In a damning report to mark the fifth anniversary of Britain’s departure from the European Union, UK in a Changing Europe said it appears that EU policy is ‘peripheral to Starmer’s government’
The former deputy prime minister’s intervention came as it emerged Sir Keir Starmer will snub the fifth anniversary of Brexit on Friday - choosing instead to focus on his ongoing reset of relations wi
The EU and UK face their first post-Brexit legal showdown as the bloc challenges Britain's North Sea sandeel fishing ban – a minor environmental case with major political implications.
The Government has offered to align with EU laws on chemicals in the latest sign of Labour ’s willingness to roll back Brexit. If new packaging rules from Brussels force UK companies to stop supplying Northern Ireland, then Westminster will rewrite British laws to come in line with the EU’s.