Queen Elizabeth II will prorogue Parliament at the request of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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Tag: BREXIT
Trump Official: US Ready to Seal Trade Deal with Britain Post-Brexit
White House enthusiasm for a trade deal with the United Kingdom is palpable.
Read MoreCommentary: Boycott Culture Is All the Left Has Left
by Christopher Gage The boycott was once preserved for the most diabolical of political regimes. In decades of old, activists with an actual enemy to slay used the boycott to hasten the demise of the inhumane apartheid regime of South Africa. Remarkably, those activists made history without Twitter or…
Read MoreBritain’s Version of the Never-Trumpers May Bring Down the Government Over Brexit
by Ben Whedon The British version of the “Never-Trump” movement may force the next prime minister from power in order to prevent a “no-deal Brexit,” if high-ranking Conservative Party members of Parliament follow through on their threats. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said in May he “couldn’t support a…
Read MoreCommentary: Nigel Farage is Britain’s Prime Minister-in-Waiting
by Nicolas L. Waddy Since at least 2014, the most powerful man in the United Kingdom has been someone who holds no noble or royal title, and has never occupied a domestic political office. He is a former commodities broker who took up the cause of reasserting British sovereignty…
Read MoreRaheem Kassam Commentary: European Election Signal Surge in Support for Anti-Establishment Policies in the Age of Trump
by Raheem Kassam Establishment Democrats intent on unseating President Trump in next year’s election won’t find much solace in the results of the European elections. The results of last week’s elections underscored voters’ unabated rejection of establishment politicians and rising support for the nationalist right, of which America’s MAGA…
Read MoreBritish PM Theresa May to Resign After Bungling Brexit
by Evie Fordham United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May said she would resign from her position Friday after nearly two years of taking Great Britain on a bungled path toward Brexit. May said she would continue in her role until a new prime minister was selected, though she will…
Read MoreTheresa May Is Reaching Out to the Socialists to Try to Save Her Brexit Deal
by Evie Fordham British Prime Minister Theresa May is reaching across the aisle for help from the United Kingdom’s socialist Labour Party to close out Brexit ahead of a looming deadline that has been previously delayed. May announced she was seeking yet another short-term extension on Brexit beyond an…
Read MoreBolton: Trump ‘Eager’ to Cut Deal With Post-EU Britain
While Britain remains entangled in a promise to leave the European Union without a workable plan to do so, the White House says President Donald Trump is “eager to cut a bilateral trade deal with an independent Britain.” Hours after British lawmakers rejected a Brexit plan for a third time…
Read MoreCommentary: From Brexit to Trump, Elite Contempt Shines Through
by Christopher Gage Not long ago, to support Great Britain’s departure from the European Union remained the hoppy heady preserve of the corduroyed English fruitcake. Only the niche, and utterly mental clung to such opinions. Those trifling oddities, blimpish and better suited to reliving colonial exploits in faraway lands,…
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