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Brexit

  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Plans to reset UK-EU relations hit trouble over fishing rights and youth mobility

    Member states reject Brussels’ latest efforts to bridge gaps between the two sides

    Fisherman on a trawler releases a large net of mackerel onto the boat deck
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    UK trade
    US targets Britain’s pork, poultry and seafood markets

    Agricultural sectors are ‘front of the line’ in ongoing trade talks, says Trump’s agriculture secretary

    Pigs crowded together in a pen on a farm
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Keir Starmer’s tough talk on immigration

    To reduce inflows of foreign workers, Labour must address the shortages that drove them

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks in Downing Street
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    UK immigration
    Starmer seeks to cut UK migration and refocus it on graduate work

    PM’s plan reverses post-Brexit liberalisation that allowed foreigners to fill positions in industries such as adult care

    Montage shows the Home Office logo against pictures of a care worker and a student
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Interview50 min
    Peter Mandelson: 'We're all engaged in a strategic rivalry with China' | FT

    The UK ambassador to the US talks to FT editor Roula Khalaf about China, post-Brexit trade, tech and President Donald Trump

    Peter Mandelson
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Instant InsightAlan Beattie
    Britain’s trade deal with Trump may not be good news for the world

    Starmer’s choice undermines multilateralism and poses risks to the UK

    Donald Trump announces the trade pact in the Oval Office with, from left, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, vice-president JD Vance and Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK ambassador to the US
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    The foreign landscape of British politics

    There may no longer be space for two major parties of the traditional middle after Reform’s disruption

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Big Ben’s clock tower melting under a hazy sky
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    UK and EU split over youth mobility deal, negotiating document shows

    Two sides are far apart with only a fortnight until post-Brexit ‘reset’ summit in London

    Pro-EU campaigners demonstrate in Parliament Square
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    UK politics
    UK looking at setting up youth mobility scheme with EU, minister says

    Ahead of key summit, Nick Thomas-Symonds tells FT that a ‘smart’ programme would benefit young people

    European relations minister Nick Thomas-Symonds photographed in the Cabinet Office
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    EU set to make it easier for UK professionals to work in the bloc

    Brussels due to propose legislation to enable the recognition of qualifications of British lawyers and others

    EU flags wave in the wind in front of the European Commission building in Brussels
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A tentative reset between Britain and the EU

    Deals this month ought to become the basis for a more ambitious realignment

    Sir Keir Starmer with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Gideon Rachman
    Why the EU beats Trump at the art of the deal

    The mayhem of Mar-a-Lago is less effective than the boredom of Brussels

    Trump in the form of a hare with a tortoise with an EU flag on its back at the start of a race
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Broken Justice
    Broken justice: the return of the ‘Italian torpedo’

    Decades-old litigation tactic that uses slow judicial proceedings to frustrate an opponent sees a resurgence in post-Brexit Britain

    Lady Justice statue at Old Bailey on London; Mario Franzosi in Milan
  • Saturday, 3 May, 2025
    News in-depthNigel Farage
    The great regenerator: how Nigel Farage keeps bouncing back

    Despite his friendship with Donald Trump and the fallout from Brexit, the Reform leader is thriving

  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    An unwelcome surge of rightwing populism in Britain

    Rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK threatens the Labour-Conservative duopoly

    Nigel Farage celebrates his party’s Runcorn and Helsby by-election victory
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    UK fishing
    UK partially broke rules by closing waters to EU sand eel fishing, says tribunal

    Legal wrangle over access is one of most prominent irritants in post-Brexit relations between London and Brussels

    The vessel is surrounded by gannets
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    The State of Britain
    Post-Brexit UK: stuck between an unreliable US and a mercantilist EU Premium content

    After five years as State of Britain newsletter writer Peter Foster reflects on the UK’s position in the world

    A polling station in Runcorn, north-west England
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Brussels demands UK fishing rights in return for food standards deal

    Issue is a remaining hurdle in ‘reset’ talks ahead of summit later this month

    Fishermen empty a net filled with fish into a metal container on the deck
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Chris Giles
    Brexit lessons for Trump’s trade war

    Big talk of holding all the cards looks even worse with the benefit of hindsight

    Container ships load and unload at Felixstowe Port, England
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    UK trade
    Starmer resists pressure to give MPs a vote on any US-UK trade deal

    Britain hopes to seal trio of trade accords in coming weeks as talks also continue with the EU and India

    Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and US President Donald Trump shake hands at a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House on February 27
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Janan Ganesh
    Canada is a warning to Britain’s Trump-loving Tories

    The Conservatives must choose between their US obsession and their electoral viability

    Carl Godfrey illustration of a dog sitting on Maga hat
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    UK trade
    UK-EU May summit could lay ground for review of post-Brexit deal, says German ambassador

    Miguel Berger’s comments come as two sides prepare to sign defence pact

    Miguel Berger speaking at a podium, gesturing with his hands
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    EU trade
    Brussels rebuffs UK bid to prise open access to EU single market

    Post-Brexit ‘reset’ talks intensify ahead of crucial summit next month

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, left, and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer during their meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on April 24 2025
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    UK trade
    Reeves says Britain’s trade ties with EU ‘even more important’ than US

    Chancellor’s comments come as UK balances trade talks with both regions

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    UK trade
    Reeves rejects parts of Trump’s economic agenda before talks with Bessent

    UK chancellor says global stability depends on lower trade barriers ahead of meeting US Treasury secretary

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves speaks at the IMF meeting on Thursday
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