JAPAN TIMES Brexit Headlines: 1 Feb - 28 Feb 2018

Brexit Headlines

WORLD / POLITICSFEB 21, 2018

More than 60 British lawmakers demand May deliver Brexit with full autonomy: BBC

More than 60 lawmakers in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party have signed a letter demanding that she deliver a Brexit that ensures "full regulatory autonomy" for Britain after it leaves in March 2019, the BBC reported. May, whose government and party is divided over ...

EDITORIALS   FEB 18, 2018

Brexit begins to bite Britain

Despite the promises of Brexit supporters that exit would benefit Britons, evidence is 

mounting that it will instead leave them much worse off.

WORLD / POLITICSFEB 18, 2018

Britain's May wins backing for EU security pact, but timing unclear

British Prime Minister Theresa May made her case Saturday for a new security treaty with the EU from next year, winning support from EU and U.S. officials who agreed the issue was too important to risk getting subsumed in broader Brexit negotiations. In a speech ...

BUSINESSFEB 9, 2018

Japan sounds Brexit alarm: We cannot continue in U.K. without profit

Japan’s ambassador to Britain tells Prime Minister Teresa May that Nissan, SoftBank, Nomura and other companies will likely leave if post-Brexit trade barriers make them unprofitable.

COMMENTARY / WORLDFEB 5, 2018

London bridges to nowhere

BY MARK LEONARD

U.K. leaders' apparent belief that they can muddle through Brexit is setting the U.K. up for a rude awakening.

WORLD / POLITICSFEB 4, 2018

U.K. will not 'surrender' over bespoke Brexit deal with EU, minister says

BY ELIZABETH PIPER

Britain will not "surrender" in its fight to win a bespoke deal with the European Union that would offer tariff-free trade as well as control over immigration, a minister said on Sunday before a crunch week for the government in Brexit negotiations. Interior minister Amber ...

WORLD / POLITICSFEB 2, 2018

Are you okay, Auntie May? China warms to U.K. prime minster

British Prime Minister Theresa May landed in China earlier this week fending off questions about her future amid mounting accusations of poor leadership, boring policies, and weakness over Brexit. By Friday the 61-year-old leader was basking in a warm reception from the leaders of the ...

WORLD / POLITICS   FEB 1, 2018

U.K. government will give Parliament initial Brexit analysis

Britain's government said on Wednesday it would hand over to Parliament what it called 

an initial analysis of the impact of Brexit, trying to deflect accusations that ministers are 

badly prepared for leaving the EU. The leaked report has struck at the heart of 

government ...

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