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Long regarded as two versions of the same populist phenomenon, they’re now clearly two different stories — each with its own cautionary tale.
Public support for Brexit is at an all-time low, with one in five Brexiteers now saying they think it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.
After Britain voted in 2016 to leave the European Union, many feared other countries would follow and the EU might collapse. But Brexit's chaotic example has helped strengthen the EU's standing.
What follows is a basic guide to Brexit: what it is, how it turned into a political mess and how it may ultimately be resolved.
UK lawmakers have defeated Theresa May’s Brexit deal for the third time. Follow the latest developments.
Grimsby, blaming the EU for decades of decline, voted overwhelmingly to leave. It hasn’t helped—and may have made matters worse.
A cliché—“Expect the Unexpected”—has happened. As I noted in “The Divisive Brexit Vote”, though I favoured Brexit, I took the opinion polls at face value, and expected that Britain as ...
Now Brexit itself has created a whole new set of questions about identity. The next political projects, whatever they are going to be, will take off by seeking to answer them.
Donald Trump predicted Thursday his new nickname will be “Mr. Brexit.” “They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT,” tweeted the Republican presidential nominee, who in June compared his ...
Britain's departure from the European Union has accounted for about a third of the increase in food bills for households since 2019, equivalent to about 250 pounds ($316), researchers from the ...
In Northern Ireland, Brexit is once again raising difficult questions of identity: Catholic vs. Protestant, Irish vs. British, nationalist vs. unionist.