Sam Lowe

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Anti-Brexit posters displayed in Newry on the Northern Ireland Border. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
UK looking for alternatives to Border backstop. Do they exist?

The UK government has announced that a special group has been established to look at alternatives to the proposed backstop plan to avoid a hard Irish (...)

Cliff Taylor: And so we find ourselves up the same old cul-de-sac, facing the impossibility of the UK having all it wants from Brexit while still avoiding a hard Irish Border.
UK politics struggles with the idea of being ‘trapped’ in the backstop

As the Brexit drama heads towards next week’s crucial House of Commons vote, the crunch issues now being fought over in Westminster are about what the(...)

UK asks businesses to map their Brexit-impacted supply chains

The UK government has asked business groups to map their supply chains to flag the areas of the economy most at risk if Brexit imposes additional trad(...)

Brexit secretary David Davis and European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier at Downing Street last Monday. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA
Britain to world: please pretend we are not leaving EU
  • UK
  • February 9, 2018, 09:11

Britain has a message for the rest of the world after Brexit next year: please pretend we are still in the EU. A “technical note” prepared by the Bri(...)

EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier: Both sides are agreed about the basic shape of transition. Photograph: Getty Images
Brexit ‘transition’ agreement talks will not be for faint-hearted

It had been suggested by many commentators that in the next round of Brexit talks, the strand dealing with arrangements for a transition period would (...)