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The Secretary for Works and Pensions is the most high profile resignation over Theresa May's Brexit Deal and the third minister to resign this morning. There were reports of a tearful row between her and the Prime Minister as she attempted to sell her Brexit plan to her cabinet last night.  Following the blazing row in which she was shouted down, there were rumours that she would be among the first cabinet resignations. https://twitter.com/mrchrisaddison/status/1062748001309990912 "The deal you put before cabinet...

The prime minister's 585-page proposed agreement was finalised late last night, these are the main points that have emerged from it, so far. More analysis to follow. UK to become a "single customs territory" starting in March 2019 going on until December 2020 UK will remain in EU customs union indefinitely if new agreement not reached by December 2020 Northern Ireland will be in the same customs agreement as UK and EU if no future agreement is agreed EU nationals...

The deal struck between Britain and the EU over Brexit yesterday is  a"lose-lose" situation and only a piece of "damage control", according to Donald Tusk. Speaking in Brussels on this morning after the release late on Wednesday of the Brexit agreement Donald Tusk told reporters: "I took good note of Prime Minister May’s statement yesterday. "Of course I don’t share the prime minister’s enthusiasm about Brexit as such. Since the very beginning we have had no doubt that Brexit is a...

Northern Ireland minister Shailesh Vara has quit the government in protest at Theresa May's Brexit deal, which he claimed would leave the UK in a "half-way house" outside the EU. In a statement posted on Twitter, he said: "The EU referendum offered a simple choice - to either stay in or leave the EU. The result was decisive with the UK public voting to leave, and that is what we as their elected representatives, must deliver. "The agreement put forward however, does not do that as...

Tensions in the Tory party grew when it emerged that deputy EU negotiator Sabine Weyand had explained to ambassadors that Theresa May's deal will mean the UK aligns its rules with European rules, while the EU "will retain all the controls".

An MEP was roundly applauded in parliament after she exposed Nigel Farage’s hypocrisy as he sat meters away. Dutch politician Esther de Lange told parliament not to “take his grandstanding too seriously” after she revealed she needed to “get something off her chest”. Pointing to the former UKIP leader, she told those in Strasbourg: “This is a man who led his party and country to the Brexit vote – only the next day to admit he lied and tricked and...

Government sources says a Brexit deal has been agreed on a “technical level” and will be presented by Theresa May at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Tonight cabinet members are being invited one by one into Number 10 to be shown the terms of the agreement. RTE and other sources are reporting that the UK government has agreed a customs backstop for the whole of the UK to avoid a hard border across Ireland which would have been unacceptable to...

Almost two million turkey crowns and thousands of pallets of cakes, fruit juice and mozzarella sticks are among stockpiled items at a site in Cardiff

A comprehensive list of companies preparing to leave the UK after Brexit has been making the rounds on social media as Theresa May enters final negotiations with the EU, and makes for a sobering reminder of what lies in store for Britain. Many major industries face a significant shock when the country’s divorce from the European Union is delivered, with news that a $240-billion-a-day market is set to leave London for Amsterdam one of many devastating blows to the economy....