Dominic Raab banded ‘petty’ over status of EU ambassador

‘The EU is NOT a nation state’: No10 backs Dominic Raab’s refuses to grant full diplomatic status to bloc’s ambassador but says it is ‘working’ with Brussels to defuse the spat UK is refusing to grant diplomatic status to the new EU ambassador in London Foreign Office says Joao Vale de Almeida represents an organisation … Read more

Dominic Raab banded ‘petty’ over status of EU ambassador

‘The EU is NOT a nation state’: No10 backs Dominic Raab’s refuses to grant full diplomatic status to bloc’s ambassador but says it is ‘working’ with Brussels to defuse the spat UK is refusing to grant diplomatic status to the new EU ambassador in London Foreign Office says Joao Vale de Almeida represents an organisation … Read more

Why the Germans helped get Brexit done

Give it a few years and I predict that Britons will look back on this unholy Brexit affair and credit two unlikely factors with saving the day: The pandemic… and the ghastly Germans. While the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier and his compatriot, the French president Emmanuel Macron, were all for giving you Brits a … Read more

Why the Germans helped get Brexit done

Give it a few years and I predict that Britons will look back on this unholy Brexit affair and credit two unlikely factors with saving the day: The pandemic… and the ghastly Germans. While the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier and his compatriot, the French president Emmanuel Macron, were all for giving you Brits a … Read more

So what’s in Boris’s Brexit deal?

Britain and the EU finally agreed the long-awaited – and long haggled-over – Brexit deal today.  But it is more the end of the beginning, with politicians, trade experts and industry leaders ready to pour over the pages of the agreement in the coming days. It’s the document the (political) world has been waiting for … Read more

So what’s in Boris’s Brexit deal?

Britain and the EU finally agreed the long-awaited – and long haggled-over – Brexit deal today.  But it is more the end of the beginning, with politicians, trade experts and industry leaders ready to pour over the pages of the agreement in the coming days. It’s the document the (political) world has been waiting for … Read more

STEPHEN GLOVER: It has cost four Tory Premiers their jobs… but at long last, a sigh of relief 

Are we there? Have we finally made it? As I write, there are reports that we are inching towards a final deal with the European Union, and may have even got across the line. British negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier have been photographed disappearing into a locked room in Brussels, where … Read more

STEPHEN GLOVER: It has cost four Tory Premiers their jobs… but at long last, a sigh of relief 

Are we there? Have we finally made it? As I write, there are reports that we are inching towards a final deal with the European Union, and may have even got across the line. British negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier have been photographed disappearing into a locked room in Brussels, where … Read more