BREXIT
BUSINESS / CORPORATESEP 30, 2018
Toyota Motor Corp. anticipates halting production at its Midlands U.K. factory in the event Britain leaves the European Union without a deal, the plants managing director, Marvin Cooke, told the BBC. The Japanese company operates the Burnaston car plant that produced 150,000 vehicles last year, ...
BUSINESS SEP 29, 2018
British Business Secretary Greg Clark said Saturday there are grounds for optimism that
Britain will strike a Brexit deal with the European Union, after Japanese carmaker Toyota
warned that leaving without an agreement will hit its output. Just six months before Britain
WORLD / POLITICS | FOCUSSEP 26, 2018
With Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn seeking to convince the U.K. that he is a prime minister-in-waiting at the party's annual conference on Wednesday, here are the policies the country could expect to see if the veteran leftist wins power. Brexit Socialist Corbyn has been a ...
WORLD / POLITICSSEP 26, 2018
Britain's opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will use a keynote conference speech Wednesday to present himself as the man to lead Britain but faces a daunting task uniting his rebellious MPs over the divisive Brexit question. The veteran leftist is expected to dodge direct commitments ...
WORLD / POLITICSSEP 25, 2018
The Brexit spokesman of Britain's main opposition Labour Party on Tuesday raised the possibility of staying in the European Union, more than two years after Britons voted to leave. Keir Starmer told the left-wing party's conference that another vote on Britain's relationship with the European ...
WORLD / POLITICSSEP 24, 2018
Britain's opposition Labour Party will vote this week to keep a second Brexit referendum as an option if Prime Minister Theresa May fails to pass her plan to quit the European Union through Parliament, heaping pressure on a struggling leader. But with the leadership intent ...
BUSINESS / FINANCIAL MARKETS SEP 24, 2018
The safe-haven Japanese yen briefly blipped higher on Monday as investors reacted to
news that China had canceled trade talks with the United States just as the latest round
of tariffs are set to take effect. The trade-exposed Australian dollar went the other way,
WORLD / POLITICS SEP 21, 2018
Britain's anti-European Union U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) launched a set of populist
policies on Friday hoping to revive their dwindling political influence and capitalize on
outrage over the government's handling of Brexit. Prime Minister Theresa May is
WORLD / POLITICS SEP 20, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May appealed directly to fellow European Union leaders
on Wednesday to drop "unacceptable" Brexit demands that she said could rip Britain
apart, urging the bloc to respond in kind to her "serious and workable" plan. They
NATIONAL / POLITICSSEP 18, 2018
BY REIJI YOSHIDA
Visiting British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt met Foreign
Minister Taro Kono on Tuesday in Tokyo, reconfirming the
"strategic partnership" of the two countries, with Japan
welcoming Britain's moves to strengthen its presence in
the Indo-Pacific region. During a meeting with Kono, Hunt
WORLD SEP 17, 2018
Britain's economy would suffer "substantial costs" if it leaves the European Union next
March with no divorce agreement in place, the International Monetary Fund warned
Monday. A no-deal Brexit, whereby Britain faces World Trade Organization tariffs,
WORLD / POLITICSSEP 11, 2018
A plan by euroskeptics in Prime Minister Theresa May's party
to publish an alternative plan for the United Kingdom's future
relationship with the European Union has fallen apart, the
Financial Times reported Tuesday. The United Kingdom is
due to leave the European Union on March ...
BUSINESS / CORPORATE SEP 3, 2018
Ford Motor Co. may cut up to 24,000 jobs and stop producing models such as the
Mondeo as it tries to revive its European business, the Sunday Times reported over
the weekend. The second-largest U.S. carmaker lost $73 million in Europe between
BUSINESSSEP 3, 2018
Britain's exit from the European Union could tip public opinion in Scotland in favor of seeking independence, an opinion poll showed on Sunday. Scotland voted against independence in 2014, but a subsequent referendum on leaving the EU has reignited debate over its long-term future as ...
