BREXIT
BUSINESSJAN 31, 2019
Wyn Evans' family has owned a plot in western Wales for generations, a bucolic expanse where 370 sheep and 80 cows feast on the verdant grasses of undulating hillsides. Evans, 55, wants his son to take over the farm that's been in the family for ...
WORLD | ANALYSISJAN 30, 2019
BY DARA DOYLE
After a week of missteps, Irish nerves are steadying again, unmoved by British Prime Minister Theresa May's promise to go back to Brussels to renegotiate the Brexit deal. The Irish government rejected any softening of the so-called backstop, immediately after Westminster on Tuesday backed May's ...
WORLD / POLITICS | FOCUSJAN 30, 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May bought herself some time by securing the support of MPs to renegotiate her Brexit deal, but her position remains perilous — and she is running out of road. The Conservative leader has given herself a fortnight to try to salvage ...
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 29, 2019
Lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party on Tuesday proposed a last-minute compromise Brexit plan which seeks to draw a line under internal divisions that have so far prevented Parliament from approving an exit deal. May is under acute pressure to find a ...
BUSINESS / ECONOMYJAN 29, 2019
The Cabinet Office cut its monthly assessment of exports for the first time in three months as fallout from the U.S.-China trade war spreads.
BUSINESS / ECONOMY JAN 29, 2019
BY ENDA CURRAN AND DAVID GOODMAN
Corporate executives are increasingly nervous about the global economic outlook as
they see threats multiplying from China to trade to Brexit. While few see recession
looming, louder warnings from semiconductors to logistics signal that waning
WORLD / POLITICS | FOCUSJAN 28, 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May is aiming to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit by proposing to seek further concessions from the European Union on a plan to prevent customs checks on the Irish border. On Tuesday, Parliament will debate May's proposed next steps as
BUSINESS / ECONOMY JAN 28, 2019
Europe's retail crisis deepened as companies in the U.K. to Germany are set to cut
thousands of jobs as online shopping accelerates erosion of sales from traditional
bricks-and-mortar stores. Tesco, the biggest U.K. grocer, will eliminate about
WORLD / POLITICS JAN 27, 2019
Britain has the option of using martial law to quell civil disorder that might ensue
under a no-deal Brexit, but that is not the focus of the government's attention,
Health Minister Matt Hancock said Sunday. The Sunday Times cited unnamed
BUSINESS / CORPORATEJAN 26, 2019
Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC's brewing business for $330 million, showing that despite business angst about Brexit, there's still international demand for the most British of products — ale and cider. Fuller shares surged as much as 25 ...
BUSINESSJAN 25, 2019
The chief executive of Airbus warned Thursday that the aviation giant could move its U.K. operations out of Britain if the country leaves the European Union without a deal on trade relations, in one of the starkest assessments yet of the economic impact of ...
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 23, 2019
The U.K. Parliament is moving closer to a plan to delay Brexit in order to stop the country dropping out of the European Union with no deal and avoid the risk of an economically damaging divorce. The main opposition Labour Party is now increasingly likely ...
BUSINESS / CORPORATEJAN 23, 2019
James Dyson, the billionaire Brexit supporter who revolutionised vacuum cleaners with his bagless technology, is moving his corporate office and tax registration to Singapore from Britain to be closer to his fastest growing markets. The company said the move from Britain was not driven by ...
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 23, 2019
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday praised a wave of "disruption" in world politics, citing Donald Trump and Brexit but also pointing to elections in France and Malaysia. Addressing the world's business elite in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, Pompeo renewed Trump's ...
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 22, 2019
British opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn moved a step closer to paving the way for another referendum on European Union membership by trying to use Parliament to grab control of Brexit from Prime Minister Theresa May. With the clock ticking down to March 29, ...
COMMENTARY / WORLDJAN 22, 2019
BY CLIVE CROOK
COMMENTARY / WORLDJAN 22, 2019
BY JOHN LLOYD
Britain can take real pride that a messy, fraught, passionate struggle over a fundamental principle of democratic and civic life is taking place within it.
WORLDJAN 22, 2019
The British government launched a phone app Monday to allow some 3.5 million EU nationals to apply to stay after Brexit — immediately receiving a mixed reception from immigrants increasingly concerned about their fate. Most European citizens currently living in the U.K. will need to ...
WORLD / CRIME & LEGALJAN 22, 2019
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 20, 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Downing Street office said Sunday that reported plots for Parliament to seize control from the government over Brexit were "extremely concerning." Downing Street blasted reported moves by lawmakers seeking to rewrite the rules of the House of Commons in an ...
WORLD / POLITICS | FOCUSJAN 18, 2019
Britons who have changed their minds since voting to leave the European Union in 2016 are among those uniting to call for another chance to reverse the Brexit decision. These "remainer now" voters, former supporters of the U.K.'s exit, are adding their voices to the ...
COMMENTARY / WORLDJAN 17, 2019
BY GEORGE F. WILL
In the end, the British prime minister's rejected agreement might seem marginally less unpalatable than, and the only alternative to, a hard Brexit.
WORLDJAN 17, 2019
Business leaders in the U.K. and beyond warned Wednesday of catastrophic job losses and chaos at ports if the country does not agree terms for its withdrawal from the European Union, turning up the heat on politicians to deliver clarity after Parliament narrowly voted ...
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 17, 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May was trying to forge consensus in Parliament on a Brexit divorce agreement on Wednesday after the crushing defeat of her own deal left Britain's exit from the European Union in disarray 10 weeks before it is due to leave. May was ...
EDITORIALS JAN 16, 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May has struggled to find a consensus that would
allow Brexit to proceed. The failure is not hers, but that of the entire British political
COMMENTARY / WORLDJAN 16, 2019
BY THERESE RAPHAEL
There was not much meaningful about Tuesday's Brexit vote, but at least the prime minister is now finally promising to build consensus.
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 16, 2019
What next? After British MPs rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal on Tuesday, leading to a no-confidence vote in the government, that is the question on everyone's lips. Here are the three main scenarios facing the U.K. while the clock ticks down to March ...
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 16, 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May was left "crushed" and "humiliated," U.K. newspapers said Wednesday as they raked over the fallout from Parliament's huge rejection of her EU divorce deal. Daily papers said May's deal was sunk after the overwhelming vote against the agreement, struck between May's ...
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 16, 2019
U.K. lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce deal with the European Union on Tuesday, plunging the Brexit process into chaos and triggering a no-confidence vote that could topple her government. The defeat was widely expected, but the scale of the House of Commons' ...
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 14, 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May warned lawmakers Sunday that failing to deliver Brexit would be catastrophic for democracy, in a plea for support two days before Parliament is expected to reject her deal with Brussels. With the clock ticking down to its March 29 exit ...
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 14, 2019
As the British Parliament prepares for a crucial Brexit vote Tuesday, Germany's far right voted Sunday to break a national taboo by campaigning to quit the European Union if its demand for reforms within the bloc are not met. A party congress gathered in Riesa ...
WORLDJAN 13, 2019
Voters in northeast England, where Nissan’s assembly line is a major employer, urge lawmakers to “get on with it” and get Britain out of the EU.
COMMENTARY / WORLD JAN 12, 2019
BY FRANK VOGL
How the deep forces of British history, from royalism and classism to nationalism
BUSINESSJAN 11, 2019
Abe tells May the world does not want to see a disorderly Brexit and that he fully supports May’s withdrawal plan.
NATIONAL / POLITICSJAN 10, 2019
May appears likely to lose in a House of Commons vote next week, even though business leaders fear a “no-deal” scenario could have far-reaching effects.
WORLD / POLITICSJAN 9, 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May's government suffered a defeat in Parliament on Tuesday when lawmakers who oppose leaving the European Union without an accord won a vote that created a new obstacle to a no-deal Brexit. The 303 to 296 defeat means that the government ...
BUSINESS | FOCUSJAN 9, 2019
BY ISABEL REYNOLDS
Prime Minister Abe will tell Theresa May that Japan has a lot riding on Brexit when he meets with her mere days before Parliament votes on her EU divorce plan.
WORLDJAN 8, 2019
Like a military operation, the project to test how traffic might flow around southeast England in the event of a no-deal Brexit started before dawn. And like many a military operation, it ran into trouble soon after making contact with reality. The Department for Transport ...
WORLDJAN 7, 2019
With Britain's decision to leave the EU exposing fault lines across society, fiction writers are responding with an increasing array of Brexit-infused work — from state-of-the-nation novels to futuristic satire. Brexit's influence has spread to books by established authors like Ali Smith and Jonathan Coe ...
WORLDJAN 7, 2019
Will Britons end up stranded at Heathrow? Will U.K. shops run out of Swiss cheese and French wine? The possibility of Britain breaking off from its main trading partner without any arrangements in place is growing as the March 29 exit date nears. MPs return from ...
BY LONDON
More Britons want to their country to remain a member of the European Union than
leave, according to a survey published Sunday which also showed voters want to
make the final decision themselves. Britain is due leave the EU on March 29, but
BUSINESS / ECONOMY | 2019 OUTLOOKJAN 2, 2019
BY CORY BAIRD
While it is not known which events will hold back global commerce, professional economic soothsayers appear in agreement that growing risks and uncertainty will slow Japan’s growth.
WORLDJAN 1, 2019
BUSINESSJAN 1, 2019
Britain's tortuous breakup with the European Union took a bizarre turn Monday after it emerged that London has awarded an emergency ferry services contract to a company without any ships. Prime Minister Theresa May's government is ramping up preparations to avert chaos should Britain split ...
