Brexit Negotiator

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Tuesday congratulated incoming British Prime Minister Boris Johnson but was firm that it would not heed his election promises of renegotiating Brexit. The bloc’s executive European Commission was willing to work wi…

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS, July 23 (Reuters) - The European Union on Tuesday congratulated incoming British Prime Minister Boris Johnson but was firm that it would not heed his election promises of renegotiating Brexit. The bloc's executive European Co…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Tuesday the bloc was ready to work with incoming British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for an orderly Brexit. “We look forward to working constructively with PM Johnson when h…

President Trump on Friday lavished praise on Boris Johnson, the leading contender to replace Theresa May as Britains prime minister. I like him. I like Boris Johnson. I spoke to him yesterday. I think hes going to do a great job. I think were going to have a…

Image copyrightGetty Images MPs will meet the EU's chief negotiator later to call for UK citizens' rights to be protected in a no-deal Brexit. The cross-party delegation will meet Michel Barnier in Brussels, and be led by Tory MP Alberto Costa. He said go…

LONDON — British politicians will today make a direct appeal to Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, to protect the rights of EU citizens living in the UK, and UK citizens living in Europe, if Britain crashes out of the bloc with no deal in Octob…

British lawmakers are meeting the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, seeking an iron-clad guarantee that 1.3 million U.K. citizens in the bloc won't have their rights removed and lives disrupted in the event the country leaves the EU without a deal. T…

BRUSSELS (AP) British lawmakers are meeting the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, seeking an iron-clad guarantee that 1.3 million U.K. citizens in the bloc won't have their rights removed and lives disrupted in the event the country leaves the EU with…

Yves here. It is becoming more and more difficult to fathom what is happening in the UK. Boris Johnson looks certain to become Prime Minister. Even though he is fabulously unprincipled and thus could conceivably do a volte face on Brexit, as Chris Grey pointe…

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain might be entering a full-blown recession that a no-deal exit from the European Union would compound, blowing a 30 billion-pound hole in the public finances, a budget watchdog said on Thursday. As lawmakers prepared for a vote that…