and will be vital in helping us to tackle ongoing threats to our security, and that's why we're working together with the EU to strengthen our partnership." Asked what benefits Brexit had brought ...

Opinions are split on how much of a benefit Brexit has or can be. Economists and thinktanks regularly cite massive figures in the tens or hundreds of billions when they talk about the negative ...

Eight years ago, voters across the UK faced a historic choice in the Brexit referendum. Now, five years after officially leaving the EU, the country is still grappling with the fallout.

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Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Potential US-led disruption to the global tax order and trade creates risks to the Irish economy and public finances that need a Brexit-style response, a stark ...

Boris Johnson has launched a scathing attack on Sir Keir Starmer, accusing the Labour leader of planning to drag Britain back into the "clutches of Brussels" five years after Brexit. Speaking on ...

Most Brits, including those who voted to leave the European Union, cannot think of any Brexit benefits exactly five years after the UK’s departure, a new poll shows. The UK narrowly voted to ...

Has Brexit failed? It’s the patently stupid question that people won’t stop asking. Anniversaries lend themselves to reflection, so exactly five years on from Britain formally leaving the EU ...

But Brexit was never about economics. During the 2016 referendum campaign, George Osborne’s Treasury ran a so-called Project Fear strategy of trying to scare voters into backing Remain, with dire ...

Following the fifth anniversary of the UK's departure from the EU, Mirror readers have described Brexit as an 'unmitigated disaster' without 'one single benefit' after the economic costs were ...

For Brexit supporters, the U.K. was now a sovereign nation in charge of its own destiny. For opponents, it was an isolated and diminished country. It was, inarguably, a divided nation that had ...

Five years ago on Friday, two separate crowds gathered near the UK Parliament: one group cheered and carried Union Jack flags, while the other was more sombre and bore European Union banners.