Tag: Brexit debate

• Saturday, November 9th 2019 - 10:45 UTC

  Brexit-era paralysis: Moody's downgrades UK's debt to negative

  

  Moody's on Friday downgraded the outlook for Britain's debt, citing mounting policy challenges amid the Brexit debate. The agency cut the outlook to negative from stable but kept the debt at the investment-grade Aa2.

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 05:26 UTC

  EU has urged to table fresh Brexit proposals within the next 48 hours

  

  The UK has been urged to table fresh proposals within the next 48 hours to break the Brexit impasse. EU officials said they would work non-stop over the weekend if “acceptable” ideas were received by Friday to break the deadlock over the Irish backstop.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  Brexit negotiations deadline on course to be extended

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May asked lawmakers on Tuesday to hold their nerve over Brexit and give her more time to negotiate a deal acceptable to both the European Union and the British parliament.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Queen alludes to Brexit debate: calls for “common ground” and respect for “different points of view”

  

  The Queen has urged people to find “common ground” and to respect “different points of view”. Commentators say the remarks will be seen as referring to the Brexit debate, with MPs due to vote on the PM's deal for leaving the EU again next week.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:07 UTC

  Falklands at UK key party conferences, six months ahead of Brexit

  

  Falkland Islands Members of the Legislative Assembly Mark Pollard and Stacy Bragger are travelling to the UK to attend Labor and Conservative Party Conferences. This is a special year for British politics given the ongoing Brexit debate, and countdown to UK leaving the European Union on 29 March 2019.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2018 - 06:58 UTC

  Brexit debate: PM May “on a narrow path with people chucking stones from both sides”

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May's brief summer holiday from Brexit battles came to a noisy end Monday, as she faced attack from both sides of her divided Conservative Party. Archrival Boris Johnson inflamed speculation that he aims to oust May by branding her plan for Brexit “a disaster”.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2018 - 09:41 UTC

  Brexit debate: government manages to save Customs Bill, and on Tuesday must defend the Trade Bill

  

  The British government has narrowly avoided a defeat on its Customs Bill after agreeing to Brexiteers' demands to change its wording. It twice survived by just three votes after a backlash from pro-EU Tories who accused Theresa May of “caving in” to the party's Eurosceptic MPs.