‘This was always going to happen’: LBC caller laments Brexit impact on Northern Ireland
"I've grown up not knowing what the generation before me knew. Which was guns being pointed at you, bombs going off during school assemblies.”
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The UK is the first and so far only country to have left the EU and Brexit was and is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom). The official withdrawal was at 23:00 31 January 2020 GMT (00:00 CET).
Kate Hoey reminded of Brexit promises as she claims Protocol ‘destabilised Northern Ireland’
"Northern Ireland has much to gain from Brexit," Hoey proclaimed in 2016, a month before the referendum.
Brexit: This Leave.EU tweet about Brits living in Spain hasn’t aged well
“Yes I voted out, but I didn’t realise it would come to this, my application has been rejected and we are on our way home – the wife is in tears, she’s distraught and if I’m honest and I’m not too happy at the prospect of returning back to the ...
British chocolatiers reveal how Brexit blighted busy Easter period
"We've lost our entire European trade," one chocolatier lamented.
Ex-Brexit Party MEP mocked for moaning that EU ‘restricted free movement’
Lance Forman claimed he "believed in free movement", and called the EU "crazy" for "restricting" it.
Wealthy Brexiter Tory MP with slave links fails to publish accounts for four firms
Richard Drax owns a 621-acre sugar plantation in Barbados, where - from 1640 to 1838 - his family used slaves to make huge profits.
Brexit: ‘EU Withdrawal Act is sloppy legislation, rushed through by an arrogant government’
"It leaves some of the most vulnerable children in the UK undocumented and facing an insecure future."
Brexit: Huge increase in Irish passports issued since UK opted to leave EU
“The harsh impacts of Brexit and the attack on the rights of so many UK citizens has clearly motivated many to realise their Irish citizenship rights."
Brexiteers fundraising £1 million to fund ‘neutral’ Museum of Brexit
Prominent Brexiteers have championed the project, claiming they want to set up an institution to tell the story of Britain’s exit from the European Union “before items and stories get lost”.