JAPAN TIMES Brexit Headlines: 1 May - 31 May 2019

BREXIT

WORLD / POLITICSJUN 1, 2019

Trump says Boris Johnson would do 'very good job' as U.K. leader ahead of state visit

U.S. President Donald Trump, days before his state visit to the U.K., again weighed in on British politics, saying Boris Johnson "would do a very good job" as prime minister. He also referred to Meghan, the duchess of Sussex, as "nasty." Trump said Johnson, the ...

COMMENTARY / WORLDMAY 31, 2019

Only time and patience can resolve Brexit

BY DAVID HOWELL

Some great issues in human affairs can never be neatly and swiftly tied up and solved. Brexit is one of them.

BUSINESS / CORPORATE  MAY 31, 2019

MUFG, Japan's biggest bank, offers redundancy to hundreds of managers in London

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is preparing major job cuts in London, another sign 

of the deepening troubles Japanese banks face at their overseas operations. MUFG, 

Japan's largest lender, is offering voluntary redundancy packages to about 500 directors 

and managing directors in London, according to ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 30, 2019

Boris Johnson to faces court over claim of Britain's '£350 million weekly payment' to EU

Boris Johnson, considered the front-runner to become Britain's next prime minister, must appear in court over allegations that he knowingly lied during the Brexit referendum campaign, a judge ruled Wednesday. Johnson, the former foreign secretary, will be summoned to appear over allegations of misconduct in ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 29, 2019

EU leaders agree to pick new 'Mr. or Ms. Europe' next month

European Union leaders engaged in a first skirmish Tuesday over who should become the next chief of the European Commission, giving themselves a short deadline to agree on the bloc's top jobs and a target of assigning half of them to women. Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

EDITORIALS  MAY 28, 2019

The EU muddles through election

Voters' confirmation of support for the European project echoes Tokyo's own sentiment.

COMMENTARY / WORLDMAY 28, 2019

Britain's great Brexit divide is getting deeper

BY THERESE RAPHAEL

Both big political parties lost the European elections and are faced with existential decisions about where they stand on Europe.

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 28, 2019

U.K.'s Brexit Party triumph boosts chances of 'no-deal'

Nigel Farage's anti-EU Brexit party has topped European Parliament polls in the U.K., putting intense pressure on the ruling Conservatives — who suffered a historic rout — and raising the chances of a no-deal outcome. The single-issue Brexit Party, founded just three months ago by ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 27, 2019

Brexit tears up British politics as Nigel Farage tops EU election poll

Brexit wrought more havoc on Britain's main political parties in European Parliament elections, with both Conservatives and Labour scoring their worst results in decades as voters opted for politicians with clear pro- and anti-European Union messages. With nearly all the vote counts complete, Nigel Farage's ...

WORLD / POLITICS | FOCUSMAY 26, 2019

U.K. leadership hopefuls vow to succeed where Theresa May failed on Brexit

The race to become the U.K.'s next premier has opened in earnest with an array of hopefuls promising to succeed where Theresa May failed and finally pull the divided country out of the EU. But European leaders insisted they had made their final offer after ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 25, 2019

The downfall of Theresa May, the prime minister broken by Brexit

At 10:11 a.m., a devastated Theresa May walked back in through the black door of No. 10 Downing St., tears in her eyes. Once inside she found her husband, Philip, and the couple went through to the prime minister's private study together for a ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 25, 2019

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: The EU's worst nightmare?

For European leaders watching Theresa May's political death throes, a sense of inevitability has been replaced by one of fear. Rather than break the deadlock over Brexit, the departure of the British prime minister raises the prospect of what they've long considered their worst nightmare: ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 24, 2019

In emotional address, Theresa May says she will quit on June 7 with 'deep regret' over Brexit impasse

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced her resignation in an emotional address on Friday, ending a dramatic three-year tenure of near-constant crisis over Brexit. "It is and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver ...

WORLD / POLITICS  MAY 24, 2019

U.K. election body says 'some' EU citizens were turned away at polls

U.K. election authorities acknowledged Thursday that some EU citizens were turned 

away at U.K. polling stations while trying to cast ballots in the European Parliament 

polls. The hashtag #DeniedMyVote began trending in Britain as voters cast their 

ballots in one of the 28 countries taking ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 23, 2019

May's premiership hangs by thread as key minister quits over Brexit

Theresa May's premiership is hanging by a thread as a high-profile Cabinet minister quit and a growing revolt over Brexit looked set to force the British leader from power. Andrea Leadsom resigned late on Wednesday, saying she no longer believed the government's approach will honor ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 22, 2019

May faces pressure to abandon vote on Brexit and resign, sources say

Theresa May is facing pressure to abandon her Brexit deal and quit as British prime minister within days, according to people familiar with the matter. Several senior government officials said they were shocked that the premier's new offer intended to win votes in Parliament for ...

WORLD / POLITICS | FOCUSMAY 21, 2019

A look at euroskeptic and populist forces in the European Union

Populist and euroskeptic parties have emerged in many countries of the European Union, although not all go as far as wanting a Brexit-style departure. European voters go to the polls to choose a new parliament Thursday through Sunday and gains for euroskeptics and the far ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 21, 2019

Milkshakes become weapon of choice against Brexit-backing populist right

The lowly milkshake has turned into an unlikely weapon of choice for Britons determined to make a splashy statement against the rise of the Brexit-backing populist right. Former U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage became the latest political figure Monday to be doused with ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 20, 2019

U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn moves closer to backing second Brexit referendum

Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn moved closer to fully backing a second Brexit referendum, saying the public should be given a choice on any deal to leave the European Union. Corbyn has previously said the country should be offered a vote on Prime Minister Theresa ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 19, 2019

Britain's Theresa May to deliver final, 'bold offer' on Brexit deal

British Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday she was preparing to make a "bold offer" to MPs in one final attempt to get them to back her Brexit deal. May said that when she brings the Withdrawal Agreement Bill before Parliament early next month, it ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 17, 2019

Boris Johnson slim, trimmed and ready to fight for power

BY TIM ROSS

For a man who has made his name as a comical shambles, cracking jokes on talk-shows and scruffing up his famous blond mop, Boris Johnson is taking a deadly serious approach to his work. At 54, the former foreign secretary has lost weight, trimmed his ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 16, 2019

Rebels hope to kill off May's Brexit deal in 'last-chance' vote

Brexit-supporting rebels in British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party said on Wednesday they would vote down her European Union divorce deal when she brings it back to Parliament next month. Britain had been due to leave the EU on March 29 but Parliament has ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 15, 2019

U.K. faces final Brexit showdown in Parliament at start of June

Theresa May has set a date for her final Brexit showdown, promising to bring her deal back to Parliament at the start of June. Talks with the opposition Labour Party haven't yielded an agreement, but she is hoping members of Parliament, stung by voter ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 12, 2019

Britain's Labour Party questions whether successor to leader Theresa May would honor Brexit deal

A major sticking point in talks between Britain's government and opposition Labour Party is the lack of any guarantee that a successor to Prime Minister Theresa May would deliver on any Brexit agreement, Labour's trade policy chief said Sunday. May, who has offered to quit ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 12, 2019

Brexit Party doubles lead in poll over upcoming European Parliament elections

The newly formed Brexit Party, which wants a clean break from the EU, has doubled its lead over other British parties in an opinion poll out Sunday on the European Parliament elections. The Opinium survey in The Observer newspaper put the Brexit Party of euroskeptic ...

NATIONAL | AMBASSADOR VISITMAY 10, 2019

Sporting events and Brexit offer Dublin the chance to grow ties with Tokyo, Irish ambassador says

BY MAGDALENA OSUMI

While Japan and Ireland may view each other as fierce rivals at the Rugby World Cup when they face off in Shizuoka Prefecture in September, Ireland sees the sporting event and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as opportunities to expand contacts — a prelude to ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAY 7, 2019

May's uneasy courtship of Jeremy Corbyn puts Brexit deal on knife edge

As the gray dawn came up over London on the morning of June 9, 2017, Theresa May had one urgent mission: to stop Jeremy Corbyn from becoming prime minister. May was hunkered down inside her Conservative Party's headquarters with her closest aides, trying to make ...

WORLDMAY 5, 2019

Britain-France Channel Tunnel, now 25, was centuries in the making

On May 6, 1994, Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand boarded the royal Rolls-Royce and took an undersea train to Britain — a 50.5-kilometer (30-mile) trip that inaugurated a tunnel two centuries in the making. Followed by their spouses in a Citroen, their ...

WORLD / POLITICS  MAY 3, 2019

Main U.K. parties take Brexit battering in local elections

Britain's governing Conservatives and the Labour main opposition took a drubbing 

Friday in English local elections as voters vented their frustration with the Brexit 

deadlock. Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives lost control of several local 

authorities and hundreds of seats but Labour failed to capitalize, ...

BUSINESSMAY 1, 2019

U.K. auto output to collapse on no-deal Brexit, industry body warns

Britain's car output under a no-deal Brexit could collapse to a level last seen in "the dark days of the 1980s," the nation's industry body forecast on Tuesday. The warning came as Jaguar Land Rover said its new Land Rover Defender model would be assembled ...

BUSINESS  APR 30, 2019

Sense of urgency: Facebook joins study on how social media impact elections

Facebook announced Monday it would make its data available to academics studying

 the impact of social media on elections, part of an effort to prevent manipulation of 

social platforms. The leading social network said some 60 researchers from 30 

academic institutions across 11 countries were ...

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