Content in the topic of Europe and Brexit

The UK and the EU will begin negotiations on food and drink and emissions trading deals next week.

Campaigners have warned that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage "wants to take more risks with people's financial security" after he gave a speech setting out new economic policies.

Best for Britain's latest polling report suggests that the cost of living is the top priority for people both nationally and locally. Conversely, the salience of immigration and asylum drops from the second most prominent issue in aggregate, to the seventh, when the biggest issues facing the UK are reframed to individuals and local communities.

As the Government increasingly highlights Brexit as a key economic challenge ahead of the Budget, Best for Britain presents the findings from our latest report into public attitudes on Brexit, how people think it has gone, why, and who they feel is most responsible.

Best for Britain's latest polling report suggests that despite Reform UK’s surge in popularity, the view that Brexit has been more of a failure has increased in support across the supporter bases of all main Westminster parties.

Since Emmanuel Macron welcomed back a new parliament in July 2024 things have not gone smoothly. Each Prime Minister appointed by the French President - Barnier, Bayrou, and Lecornu - has tried and failed to form effective governments due to a bitterly divided legislature. Radical parties on both the left and right have exposed a shrinking centre ground in French politics, building pressure on Macron to resign in the face of unprecedented public unpopularity. With Lecornu re-appointed just four days after his resignation with a new promise to delay planned pension reform, why has French politics descended into chaos?

Rachel Reeves is right to "highlight the severity and long-term damage of Brexit", in her comments ahead of the Budget, campaigners have said.

The urgency of delivering on UK-EU cooperation in areas linked to food and hospitality prices has been highlighted by campaigners, after UK inflation was forecast to surge to the highest in the G7.

Over the weekend, Czechia became the latest country to elect a populist prime minister. Self-styled Trumpist Andrej Babiš, albeit a centre-right version, completed his political comeback by winning more than a third of the vote, ousting the pro-European coalition led by Petr Fiala. Babiš now appears poised to join Viktor Orbán of Hungary and Robert Fico of Slovakia in opposing the European Union’s efforts to bolster Ukraine in its war against Russian aggression.

Campaigners have criticised Kemi Badenoch for claiming the Conservatives were "brave enough to take Britain out of the European Union".