BREXIT
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 26, 2018
BY CAM SIMPSON, KIT CHELLEL AND GAVIN FINCH
Behind the luxury hotels lining London's Park Lane, just across from a service entrance, Nigel Farage stood outside a squat office building streaked with soot. Britain's famous anti-European Union campaigner was flanked by a couple of minor sports celebrities and two young women in ...
WORLDDEC 26, 2018
Queen Elizabeth II warned of religious "tribalism" in a Christmas message on Tuesday delivered against a backdrop of Britain bickering over its impending exit from the EU. The tone of the 92-year-old monarch's annual TV appearances reflected a somber mood sweeping the island nation as ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 22, 2018
British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will push ahead with Brexit and seek to renegotiate the terms if he wins a snap election next year, he said Saturday, in a blow to party supporters who want a second referendum. Like much of Britain, Corbyn's Labour Party ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 19, 2018
British MPs head off for Christmas with just 100 days to go until Brexit, leaving a country in limbo with no divorce deal in place and total confusion over what happens next. Prime Minister Theresa May, who is holding her last question session of the ...
COMMENTARY / WORLDDEC 17, 2018
BY DAVID HOWELL
If MPs vote against the one compromise proposal that is on the table, they will, with absolute certainty, be voting for chaotic impasse, with an outcome very likely to be the very opposite of what they intended.
WORLD / POLITICS DEC 16, 2018
British Trade Minister Liam Fox said Sunday talks with the European Union to
secure "assurances" for Parliament on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal
will take time, with a decision expected in the New Year. "The prime minister is
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 14, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron barnstormed to power in 2017, promising to inject the European project — and especially the euro single currency — with much-needed oomph. On Friday, EU leaders will sign off on the fruit of that campaign, a laundry list of highly complex ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 14, 2018
"Trust me," Prime Minister Theresa May told other European Union leaders on Thursday, saying that with their help, she could win the British Parliament's backing for her Brexit deal and prevent a chaotic departure. A day after a failed attempt to oust her by lawmakers ...
WORLD / POLITICS | ANALYSISDEC 13, 2018
BY THERESE RAPHAEL
Conservative lawmakers in the U.K. voted on one question, but decided another. Their choice may not make the path for an orderly Brexit any easier, but it may make a disorderly Brexit a little less likely. The ballot presented to 317 Tory members of Parliament ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 13, 2018
Bloodied but not yet beaten, Prime Minister Theresa May will go to Brussels for the second time in three days on Thursday, battling to save her Brexit deal and her career. The British leader, who survived a confidence vote staged by her own party's MPs ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 13, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a brush with political mortality Wednesday, winning a no-confidence vote by Conservative lawmakers that would have ended her leadership of party and country. May won the vote of 317 Conservative legislators with a 200-117 tally that reflected the discontent ...
EDITORIALS DEC 12, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May has gained time, but she still has no good options.
Parliament is not going to pass the deal on the table; the EU is not going to reopen it.
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 12, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May was on Wednesday to face a vote of no-confidence by MPs in her party over her handling of negotiations with the European Union about Britain's exit from the bloc. The head of a Conservative Party committee in charge of organizing ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 11, 2018
BY ROBERT HUTTON
Faced with a Brexit vote she cannot win, Prime Minister Theresa May appears to be gambling that running down the clock to a no-deal departure might change the arithmetic in Parliament. Less than 24 hours after Environment Secretary Michael Gove insisted the vote on May's ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 11, 2018
It was all so calm, so British. But when a Labour lawmaker picked up the mace in the House of Commons on Monday evening to protest Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to put off a Parliamentary defeat for her Brexit deal, he was making a ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 10, 2018
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is calling off a crucial vote in Parliament on whether to approve her Brexit deal, according to a person familiar with the situation. The vote in the House of Commons to approve the terms of the U.K.'s divorce from the ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 10, 2018
Europe's top court ruled Monday that Britain could halt Brexit without the approval of fellow EU member states, in a victory for pro-Europeans on the eve of a key House of Commons vote. "The United Kingdom is free to revoke unilaterally the notification of its ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 9, 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May warned Sunday that Parliament's rejection of her Brexit deal could leave Britain in the European Union and bring the opposition Labour Party to power. The embattled leader's message came with her government fearing a heavy defeat Tuesday of the draft withdrawal ...
COMMENTARY / WORLDDEC 6, 2018
BY THERESE RAPHAEL
The British prime minister's effort to sideline parliament has failed and now it's hard to tell who's at the wheel of Brexit.
EDITORIALS DEC 5, 2018
Failure to reach a deal with the EU, for whatever reason, would be a disaster for
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 5, 2018
Brexit firebrand Nigel Farage resigned Tuesday from the U.K. Independence Party, which he co-founded and turned into an influential force in British politics as its leader for nearly a decade. "With a heavy heart, I am leaving UKIP. It is not the Brexit party our ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 4, 2018
The European Court of Justice's advocate general said on Tuesday Britain has the right to withdraw its Brexit notice from the European Union unilaterally. The nonbinding advice comes as the British Parliament begins five days of debates on Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal ...
WORLD / POLITICSDEC 2, 2018
Hopes for a second referendum on EU membership are rising in Britain amid heightened uncertainty over Brexit, but big hurdles remain — from the timing to legal complexities on both sides of the English Channel. Prime Minister Theresa May is struggling to convince British lawmakers ...
