Brexit

LONDON (Reuters) - New British finance minister Sajid Javid plans to announce spending of around 1 billion pounds to make sure the country is properly prepared for a possible no-deal Brexit in October, a newspaper reported. Javid told the Sunday Telegraph h…

BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - The European Union is offering new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a wary welcome, insisting it will consider any detailed new ideas he has on Brexit but cautious lest his gambit is ultimately to blame Brussels for a no-deal de…

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned the European Union on Saturday that the Irish backstop, which he said was undemocratic, needed to be ditched if they were to strike a Brexit divorce deal. Johnson, since taking o…

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet his Brexiteer-dominated team of senior ministers for the first time on Thursday to plot how to persuade the European Union to agree to a new Brexit deal ahead of the Oct. 31 exit deadline. Jo…

LONDON (Reuters) - Sajid Javid became Britain’s first ethnic minority finance minister on Wednesday, capping off an unlikely rise from a humble start on a street dubbed the country’s worst to holding the purse strings for the world’s fifth-biggest economy. …

LONDON (Reuters) - Boris Johnson promised to deliver Brexit by Oct. 31 and said he would strike a new deal with the European Union in his first speech after becoming British Prime Minister on Wednesday. Following are highlights of his comments as he spoke t…

Britain's new prime minister, Boris Johnson, waves from the steps outside 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday. Frank Augstein/AP Boris Johnson, the polarizing and showboating politician who led the campaign for Britain to leave the EU in 2016, is now o…

LONDON (Reuters) - Boris Johnson launched his premiership with a bid to do a bold new Brexit deal with the European Union by Oct. 31, rebuking “gloomsters” and the political class who he said had forgotten the people who they should serve. Johnson took offi…

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must prepare for the possibility that it has to leave the European Union without a deal if the bloc refuses to renegotiate its exit accord, new Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. Johnson said he plans to get a new exi…

Boris Johnson has won the race to become Britain's prime minister with a pledge to deliver Brexit "do or die." The former foreign secretary beat his opponent Jeremy Hunt by promising to take Britain out of the EU, and its institutions, with or without a de…