Tag: Brexit plan

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Cool reception from Brussels to UK's new Brexit plan: “a lot of work needs to be done”

  

  Britain's new Brexit plan got a cool reception on Wednesday in Brussels, where European officials highlighted problems and their chief negotiator warned it left “a lot of work” to be done.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  All ready for Boris Johnson to attempt to overcome the Brexit hurdle

  

  Ballots closed in the race to become Britain's next prime minister on Monday, with the favorite Boris Johnson facing more defections by ministers over his Brexit plan. The country's new leader will take the reins this week and have just three months to attempt to resolve a three-year Brexit crisis that could damage economies on both sides of the Channel and determine the fate of generations of Britons.

• Thursday, February 21st 2019 - 08:19 UTC

  Three Tories abandon the party and join Independent Group over “disastrous handling of Brexit”

  

  Three pro-EU lawmakers from Britain's ruling Conservatives quit over the “disastrous handling of Brexit” on Wednesday, in a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts to unite her party around plans to leave the European Union.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2019 - 08:41 UTC

  Brexit plan's five-day debate takes off; Westminster shuts off “no-deal option”

  

  MPs will begin debating Theresa May's Brexit plan again on Wednesday, nearly a month after she postponed the crunch Commons vote on her agreement. There will be five days of discussion on the terms of the UK's withdrawal and future relations with the EU ahead of an expected vote next Tuesday.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Grassroots conservatives want PM May's Brexit deal ditched, according to survey

  

  More than half of grassroots Conservative members want Theresa May’s Brexit deal to be ditched in favour of no deal, a survey has found. About 57% of the rank and file are convinced that leaving the EU without a deal is better than their own leader’s Brexit plan, according to a poll funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.