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Brexit

  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    UK trade
    BoE governor urges UK government to seek closer trade ties with EU

    Andrew Bailey makes case for minimising negative effects of Brexit

    Andrew Bailey
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    The UK’s trade performance remains dire

    Deals struck recently with the US, EU and India will not make a significant difference to Britain’s parlous position

    Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    The Weekend Essay
    Britain and Europe are moving beyond Brexit. Now for the real trade-offs

    This week’s ‘reset’ deal is a welcome return to pragmatism. But both sides must go further in facing up to the new world order

    A man wearing jeans, blue top and cap sits on the grass looking out to sea
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Political Fix podcast32 min listen
    Is Labour’s post-Brexit reset a victory or a betrayal?

    Plus: Starmer’s Chagos deal

  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    UK seeks to sell ‘Ozymandian’ Brexit checkpoint after EU deal

    Site in Kent was built to carry out food checks that will no longer be needed

    Freight trucks queue up at Dover Port
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Janan Ganesh
    Britain will be negotiating with Europe forever

    Like a poorer Switzerland, the UK will never find a happy balance of independence and access

    Carl Godfrey illustration of two linked bubble speeches, one with the UK flag in and the other with the EU flag in.
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    UK will not rejoin EU customs union, Starmer says

    Prime minister says move would ‘undo’ benefits from recent trade deals with India and US

    Sir Keir Starmer
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Deal to let Brits skip EU passport queues would have happened without post-Brexit accord

    Broader reform of European border checks that has been planned for years would allow use of ‘e-gates’

    E-gates in use at Heathrow airport
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s small wins fail to ease tight fiscal spot

    Party’s position on free movement limited by domestic political constraints and misses potential aid to growth

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, left, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Council president António Costa stand during a visit aboard the British Royal Navy’s HMS Sutherland frigate, London
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    How the UK and EU thrashed out a post-Brexit reset in relations

    Keir Starmer’s big concession on fishing came as bloc offered better trade terms for British food exporters

    Montage shows a handshake against a backdrop of the EU and UK flags
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    A warning shot to the Treasuries market

    US borrowing costs climb after Moody’s credit rating downgrade

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    UK and EU agree post-Brexit reset at showpiece summit

    Starmer accused of ‘surrender’ by the Tories after finalising new arrangements on fisheries and agriculture

    Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president António Costa
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    What the post-Brexit reset deal means for the UK

    Agreement spans food, fishing, defence and youth mobility, but much remains to be finalised

    Montage shows pound notes, pigs, fish and a wind farm in the colours of the EU flag
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A first step towards rebuilding UK-EU ties

    Hard-fought reset lays bare the realities of the post-Brexit relationship

    Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    Starmer hopes to banish ‘battles of the past’ with EU reset deal

    Agreement to forge closer links with Europe on defence and trade risks reopening Brexit arguments

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    UK-EU post-Brexit reset: the key points

    From defence to fishing access, the major changes agreed in trade talks

    Montage shows a cow, a suitcase, a soldier and a shoal of fish against the EU and UK flags
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s EU deal eases trade barriers, but minimises any political pain

    Low-risk logic of leadership leaves space for party’s opponents to shape post-Brexit debate

    Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    UK and EU locked in intense talks over key terms of post-Brexit reset

    Defence and security pact to be announced on Monday, but haggling over details of revamped relationship continues

    A Boulogne-based trawler: key details including fisheries, food trade and youth mobility are still being negotiated
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Europe Express
    Why the post-Brexit ‘reset’ faces a reality check at EU-UK summit Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: European leaders rush to influence Trump ahead of his call with Putin

    Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, left, and Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    Martin Sandbu
    Why post-Brexit Britain will always remain a supplicant to Europe

    Resets with the EU may improve relations, but they will never give the country the equal standing of a member state

    Donald Tusk, Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron and Sir Keir Starmer at the EU summit in Tirana
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    Starmer closes in on EU food trade deal in run-up to key summit

    Proposed veterinary agreement would mean Britain has to accept EU rules on food safety and animal welfare

  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    EU certificates deal could boost key UK exports by a quarter, study finds

    London has pushed for so-called conformity assessment, but Brussels has rejected the idea

    Haulage trucks queue to check in for a ferry crossing at the Port of Dover
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    Fishing industry urges Starmer to ‘hold nerve’ in UK-EU pact talks

    EU negotiators say Britain must agree to a long-term fisheries deal

    A fisherman sorts a box of line caught pollock in Newlyn harbour in the UK
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    EU leaders urge Starmer to improve mobility deal in last-ditch ‘reset’ talks

    Prime minister will meet Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen on Friday to iron out details

    A large group of foreign students in London with their luggage
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Rain Newton-Smith
    The UK and EU must choose prosperity over politics

    The legacy of Brexit should not get in the way of progress that cuts costs for business

    UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at Downing Street
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