ROBERT COLLS: What English flag-waving tells Europeans baffled by Brexit 

There’s a beautiful moral simplicity about sporting contests. Win or lose. In or out. So how nice it is that England, which voted in 2016 to leave the European Union, has done so well in a competition that’s called Euro 2020. After the Brexit vote, the outgoing EU Council president Donald Tusk warned that this … Read more

Home Office destroyed £8.6m worth of burgundy passports after Brexit

Home Office threw away £8.6MILLION worth of burgundy passports when UK made ‘symbolic’ switch to old-style blue versions after Brexit – despite the change being planned for more than TWO YEARS EXCLUSIVE: Home Office accounts show £8.6m of old style passports destroyed Government had said the burgundy passports would be issued to avoid waste The … Read more

Home Office destroyed £8.6m worth of burgundy passports after Brexit

Home Office threw away £8.6MILLION worth of burgundy passports when UK made ‘symbolic’ switch to old-style blue versions after Brexit – despite the change being planned for more than TWO YEARS EXCLUSIVE: Home Office accounts show £8.6m of old style passports destroyed Government had said the burgundy passports would be issued to avoid waste The … Read more

UK rejects EU demand for Brexit ‘divorce bill’ of £40.8billion setting up new battle with Brussels

UK rejects EU demand for Brexit ‘divorce bill’ payment of £40.8billion saying it ‘does not recognise’ the figure – setting up new battle with Brussels No 10 insisted the figure Britain owes is between £35 billion and £39 billion Says it does not accept the revised sum, but the EU insisted that figure was ‘final’ … Read more

Britain’s Brexit divorce bill REVEALED: UK must pay the EU £40.8BILLION

Britain and the European Union were locked in a dispute over the size of London’s final Brexit divorce bill last night as official accounts filed in Brussels show that UK taxpayers must pay more than £40billion to leave the bloc – nearly £2billion more than previously forecast. The British Office for Budget Responsibility had previously estimated that … Read more

Britain’s Brexit divorce bill REVEALED: UK must pay the EU £40.8BILLION

Britain and the European Union were locked in a dispute over the size of London’s final Brexit divorce bill last night as official accounts filed in Brussels show that UK taxpayers must pay more than £40billion to leave the bloc – nearly £2billion more than previously forecast. The British Office for Budget Responsibility had previously estimated that … Read more

National Trust posts sarcastic tweet in row with Spectator over claims of ‘bullying’

‘Sorry for the delay, we were flushing someone’s head down the toilet’: National Trust posts sarcastic tweet in row with Spectator over claims of ‘bullying’ and how job applicants are rejected if they voted Leave In since deleted post, the charity said it has to go ‘pinch someone’s lunch money’ Tweet made in response to … Read more

National Trust posts sarcastic tweet in row with Spectator over claims of ‘bullying’

‘Sorry for the delay, we were flushing someone’s head down the toilet’: National Trust posts sarcastic tweet in row with Spectator over claims of ‘bullying’ and how job applicants are rejected if they voted Leave In since deleted post, the charity said it has to go ‘pinch someone’s lunch money’ Tweet made in response to … Read more

Brexit minister Lord Frost blasts Sir Elton John over pop megastar’s Brexit travel criticism

Senior minister Lord Frost took an astonishing swipe at Sir Elton John over Brexit today, questioning the megastar’s motives in campaigning to ease travel for musicians. The Brexit Minister took aim at the Candle in the Wind singer, who has criticised the Government’s handling of paperwork hurdles hindering UK artists working in the EU since last … Read more