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Brexit

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2026
    Martin Wolf
    Martin Wolf honoured by European institutions for defending ‘open and united’ Europe

    Spain’s Cercle d’Economia and Germany-based Kiel Institute for the World Economy hand prizes to FT chief economics commentator

    Martin Wolf receives the Cercle d'Economia Prize for European Construction from King Felipe VI of Spain, with two other people standing nearby.
  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2026
    Politics
    Ask an Expert. Submit your questions: Ten years on, what’s next for Brexit?

    Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with the FT’s Europe editor Ben Hall and Peter Foster, the FT’s World trade editor, on Thursday June 4, at 1pm BST

  • Monday, 1 June, 2026
    Politics
    Britain re-entering the EU ‘an inevitability’, says Treasury minister

    Lord Spencer Livermore says Brexit has caused the nation the loss of between 6% and 8% of GDP

    A flag combining the Union Jack and EU stars waves near the Houses of Parliament in London against a blue sky.
  • Wednesday, 27 May, 2026
    Politics
    How Brexit made Britain a European country

    With its political chaos and high-spending state, the UK is more continental than it was a decade ago

    Janan Ganesh
    A London Tube logo with Le Palais de Westminster written on it
  • Wednesday, 27 May, 2026
    Automobiles
    France signals volte-face on ‘Made in Europe’ subsidies for UK car industry

    Paris initially lukewarm on including Britain in European Commission proposal to shield strategic industries from imports

    An employee in a high-visibility vest secures new Mini cars onto a multilevel car transporter at the BMW Mini plant.
  • Tuesday, 26 May, 2026
    Politics
    UK could join €4bn EU start-up fund this year, top official says

    Ekaterina Zaharieva’s comments come as London and Brussels try to push ahead with ‘reset’ 10 years after Brexit

    Ekaterina Zaharieva speaks at a press conference, with a "Choose Europe" sign and EU flag symbol in the background.
  • Monday, 25 May, 2026
    Canadian politics
    Carney warns Alberta separatists of Brexit-style regret

    Canada’s prime minister says oil-rich province’s push for independence is a ‘dangerous bluff’

    Mark Carney speaks with one hand raised in front of industrial piping and gauges at a trades union office.
  • Sunday, 24 May, 2026
    Politics
    Starmer’s EU drive put in doubt by ‘rejoin’ calls from leadership hopefuls

    Summit to discuss deeper trade and defence co-operation mired in uncertainty as leadership crisis bites

    Keir Starmer speaks at a podium flanked by the UK and EU flags during a meeting in Brussels.
  • Friday, 22 May, 2026
    EU trade
    EU rejects UK push to create a single market for goods

    Brussels said it would only discuss the ‘reset’ package of measures at the bloc’s next summit with Britain

    Several trucks drive through the check-in area at the Port of Dover, with company logos visible on the trailers.
  • Thursday, 21 May, 2026
    Political books
    From Farage in No 10 to a fragile constitution — the pick of UK political books

    A speculative ‘non-fiction thriller’, the rise of the far right, memoirs from fighters for Scottish independence and farmers — and exhilarating campaigns from 1980s London

    Book covers for If We Tolerate This, London’s Ours! and Harvest, arranged side by side.
  • Monday, 18 May, 2026
    Labour Party UK
    Burnham vows to reverse privatisation and austerity if he replaces Starmer

    Greater Manchester mayor also insists he will not rip up the UK’s fiscal rules

    Andy Burnham speaks emphatically at a podium during the Great North Investment Summit
  • Sunday, 17 May, 2026
    UK politics
    Labour leadership battle threatens to reopen Brexit wounds

    Intervention by Wes Streeting fuels debate over whether a pro-EU campaign would help unite progressives in Britain

    Union Jack and EU flags held aloft with Elizabeth Tower in the background during an anti-Brexit demonstration.
  • Sunday, 17 May, 2026
    Labour Party UK
    Burnham plays down rejoining EU after Streeting advocates Brexit reversal

    Contender to be next Labour leader also commits to Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules in an effort to reassure markets

    Andy Burnham leaves his home, wearing glasses and a dark shirt, walking past a gate with the number 5.
  • Thursday, 14 May, 2026
    UK politics
    Britain isn’t ungovernable. It’s just been badly governed

    Short-termism and poor choices are to blame for the country’s political predicament

    Robert Shrimsley
    Illustration of the prime minister standing in front of 10 Downing Street at a lectern giving a speech. There is a black hole on his face and a group of man in black standing in the shadow behind him.
  • Monday, 11 May, 2026
    UK politics
    Starmer vows to put Britain at ‘heart of Europe’

    But critics say prime minister is being too timid in his post-Brexit reset of relations with the EU

    Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen shake hands and smile during a meeting, standing in front of a colorful backdrop.
  • Friday, 8 May, 2026
    UK politics
    Welcome to the era of five-party politics

    Widespread disillusionment with Labour and the Tories is understandable

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration of a bulldog wearing a Union Jack bow tie straining against a leash
  • Wednesday, 22 April, 2026
    UK politics
    Britain’s desperate need for Keir Badenoch

    The country requires centre-left foreign policy and centre-right reform at home

    Janan Ganesh
    Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer appear as mixed photofits of each other
  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2026
    UK politics
    The Big Read. Too late to turn to Europe?

    How Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset ran out of road

    Montage image of Keir Starmer, the EU flag, European Commission building and UK parliament
  • Friday, 17 April, 2026
    UK politics opinion polls
    Benefits of Labour’s ‘halfway house’ Brexit policy not clear, says election expert

    Analysis of polling data shows voters on the left prefer ‘rejoin’ over government’s current stance

    Union Jack and EU flags wave side by side outside the Houses of Parliament, symbolising pro- and anti-Brexit demonstrations.
  • Wednesday, 15 April, 2026
    European Union
    The weird resilience of the EU

    A decade into the age of nationalism, the idea of quitting the club is still remarkably taboo

    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of the EU flag stack on flagpole made out of metal spring.
  • Monday, 13 April, 2026
    Politics
    Starmer defends fast-tracking EU rules into UK law

    Prime minister says mechanism would help cut business costs and bring down prices

    Ed Miliband, Keir Starmer, Ursula von der Leyen, and Fatih Birol speak to delegates at an energy security summit.
  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2026
    EU financial regulation
    Brussels banking rules could hit lenders and UK-EU ‘reset’, City figures warn

    Concern that efforts to boost European defence spending could also be damaged

    The City of London skyline with modern skyscrapers in sunlight, with several people silhouetted in the foreground.
  • Monday, 6 April, 2026
    Politics
    Trump is hastening Britain’s return to the EU

    Economics, security and domestic politics all point the Starmer government towards Brussels

    Gideon Rachman
    An illustration of Donald Trump holding a lit match near a bridge made of matchsticks, while Keir Starmer walks away holding a small EU flag
  • Thursday, 2 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    An all too special relationship

    Maga leaders obsess over an imagined version of a long-lost Britain

    Simon Kuper
    Gold necklace pendant split into two halves reading “DON” and “KEIR”
  • Wednesday, 1 April, 2026
    UK foreign policy
    Starmer signals major UK pivot towards EU after Trump taunts

    British prime minister says closer ties between London and Brussels are ‘in our long-term national interest’

    Keir Starmer speaks at a podium during a press conference, flanked by UK flags
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