Andy Burnham has gone from the “King of the North” to Downing Street in a matter of weeks. But what does this mean for the UK and its relationship with the EU?
Brussels just dodged a Brexit‑fuelled airport meltdown with its biometrics U‑turnThe EU Commission says that the EES will reduce the average time spent at passport control from 90 seconds to 20 seconds per person. Airlines have warned of five-hour queues at airports.
With most Britons now saying Brexit was a mistake, any future bid to rejoin would still force the UK to swallow full free movement and EU rules again. Is that actually a realistic possibility?
Brexit: A stormy night in Brussels 10 years ago – and a failure of journalismIn 2016, I had had a very uneasy feeling for many months that Leave, under the joint leadership of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, was going to win. Not a single other British journalist in Brussels agreed with me.
Tuesday, 23 June 2026, marks the 10th anniversary of the UK decision to leave the European Union. Ten years on has anything been learned?
Keir Starmer’s efforts to rebuild bridges with the EU, after six hostile Conservative PMs, will be one of the defining legacies of his time at Number 10. But what can we expect from his successor?
As EU leaders dine, 70,000 voters in the north of England pick a new UK PMOn Thursday (18 June), as the 27 EU leaders meet in Brussels, Britain will elect its next prime minister.
Not strictly true, but don’t panic – you haven’t missed some snap general election on the Brexit island.
EU officials have played down the prospect of a radical change in EU-UK relations, despite talk from Keir Starmer’s government that the UK could rejoin the single market.
A process not an event: but Brejoin is in the airThe two candidates most likely to be the UK’s next prime minister say they want to reverse Brexit. But it’s likely to be a slow process rather than a grand event.
The last time the UK burnt through prime ministers at a similar rate was in decade-long stretches in the 18th century (1760–1770) and the 19th (1827–1837).
Goodbye, Keir Starmer?By the time you read this, Sir Keir Starmer will … still be prime minister of the UK. But only just. And not for long.
Probably until this autumn, in fact. But that’s only because his enemies (by which I mean his own Labour MPs and cabinet ministers, not the opposition Conservatives) have nobody lined up to replace him.
The EU Commission has tabled the law on Gibraltar’s legal status, giving the Rock’s citizens free movement.