Brexit

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited former strongholds of his Labour opponents in northern England on Saturday and pledged to repay their trust for helping to deliver a stunning victory for his Conservative Party in Britain’s national elec…

Boris Johnsons big election victory this week drove another nail into the coffin of the brand of conservative politics Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher first rode to power four decades ago.As Mr. Johnsons decisive win in a hotly contested national e…

Of all the agonizing twists and turns of British politics since the narrow vote on June 23, 2016, in favor of leaving the European Union, the landslide victory of Boris Johnson in Thursdays election may be the most stunning. It also should have been the most …

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain was speeding towards Brexit on Friday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a resounding election victory, ending three years of uncertainty since Britons voted to leave the European Union. Johnson has relentlessly pursued Brexit…

BURNLEY, England (Reuters) - Burnley is no longer a brick in Labour’s Red Wall. Electing its first Conservative Member of Parliament for 109 years, the gritty northern England town is emblematic of the pro-Brexit shock in Labour heartlands which handed Bori…

Boris Johnson has broken Britain's deadlock over leaving the European Union with a dramatic election win but the victory could lead to new and potentially damaging confrontations with both Scotland and Northern Ireland. Johnson, with his trademark floppy whi…

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain was speeding toward Brexit on Friday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a crushing election victory, ending three years of uncertainty since the country decided to leave the bloc. Exiting the European Union, a goal Johnson has…

Canadian businesses in the United Kingdom are now bracing for a so-called ‘Hard Brexit’, after the Conservative Party won a decisive victory in Thursday’s British federal election. “Basically what it means is a pain in the butt for us,” said Luke Davies, co-…

(BRUSSELS) — European Union leaders are gathering Friday to discuss Britain’s departure from the bloc amid some relief that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has secured a parliamentary majority that will allow him to push the Brexit divorce deal he negotiated thr…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Conservative party leader Boris Johnson gambled with a snap election - and it paid off It was billed as one of the most unpredictable elections in decades but after six weeks of hard campaigning by two historically …