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by Alice RITCHIE Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — MPs look set to approve a bill on Wednesday empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to start Brexit negotiations, in a major step towards Britain leaving the European Union. Seven months after the historic referendum vote to leave the 28-nation bloc, the House of Commons is expected to grant its approval for May to trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty. The bill must […]
by Dario Thuburn LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Prime Minister Theresa May won endorsement from US President-elect Donald Trump over her Brexit course but sterling plunged on Monday on fears that Britain could be on a collision course with its EU allies. Trump said Britain leaving the EU would “end up as a great thing” and promised to work for a trade deal with post-Brexit Britain “quickly and done properly”, speaking in an interview […]
by Robin MILLARD with Danny KEMP in Brussels Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Britain’s ambassador to the European Union resigned on Tuesday, adding uncertainty to the Brexit process less than three months before the UK is due to trigger its departure negotiations. Ivan Rogers, a highly-regarded diplomat who had been due to end his four-year stint in October, stepped down as London prepares to invoke Article 50, which starts a two-year countdown to […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — Britain will set in motion the Brexit timetable toward the end of March next year, according to a voting by the British Parliament Wednesday night. The parliament discussed for seven hours on Labor Party’s motion that the government should publish negotiation terms and specific text prior to starting the Brexit talks. The motion was endorsed by some Conservative MPs. It was reported that Prime Minister Theresa May once expressed agreement […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) – by Danny KEMP Britain must broker its deal to leave the EU by October 2018, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Tuesday, warning that time for talks was running out. Frenchman Barnier added that an interim deal to soften the blow of Britain’s departure was “difficult to imagine” unless it quickly told Brussels what it wanted from a Brexit deal. Despite the tight new timeline Prime Minister Theresa […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – by Roland JACKSON Ben PERRY Brexit will spark an economic slowdown and ravage public finances, forcing a multi-billion-pound spike in state borrowing over the next five years, a gloomy mini-budget revealed Wednesday. Britain is predicted to borrow an extra £122 billion ($152 billion, 143 billion euros) in the period to 2021, according to official forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility. About half of that budget black hole — or […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – by Edouard GUIHAIRE James PHEBY A far-right extremist was sentenced on Wednesday to life imprisonment without the possibility of release for murdering British MP Jo Cox a week before Britain’s EU referendum in a “politically motivated” attack. “Because she was a member of parliament your crime has an additional dimension that calls for particular punishment,” judge Alan Wilkie told Thomas Mair, 53, as he issued the rare “whole life term” […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says he sees Brexit as an ‘enormous opportunity’ to tighten up trade relationships between Colombia and the United Kingdom, during a joint presser with British Prime Minister Theresa May. https://youtu.be/unnUH7N_v4w
by Ruth HOLMES LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — US billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates urged Britain on Wednesday to step up investment in science and research as it prepares to leave the EU. “The world needs innovative leadership now more than ever,” the Microsoft co-founder told the Grand Challenges conference in London attended by more than 1,000 scientists from around the world. “The complexity of our most urgent global problems — extreme poverty, the persistence and […]
LONDON, United Kingdom | AFP | — The battle over Brexit reaches the High Court on Thursday in a legal challenge to Prime Minister Theresa May’s right to start negotiations for Britain to leave the European Union. The case was launched in the aftermath of Britain’s June 23 referendum which saw 52 percent of Britons vote to leave the EU. It seeks to challenge May’s assertion that she as prime minister has the right […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – by Guy JACKSON Europe’s leaders have vowed no compromise on the terms of their divorce with Britain as a free-falling pound on Friday dramatically underscored the perils ahead for Prime Minister Theresa May’s government. French President Francois Hollande sent one of the strongest warnings yet that Britain will have to pay a heavy price for leaving the European Union, while European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said the bloc must be “unyielding” […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – by Dario THUBURN British UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe is being kept in hospital until Sunday after he collapsed following a bust-up in the European Parliament that threatens to bring down a key driving force behind Brexit. UKIP colleague Nathan Gill said on Friday that Woolfe, favourite to take over from Nigel Farage as party leader, was asked to stay in Strasbourg “for observation in the hospital’s neurological ward for the […]
