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UK, EU Leaders Reach Historic Brexit Deal After Months of Negotiations

December 25, 2020December 24, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

The U.K. and the European Union agreed to a historic Brexit trade deal Thursday after months of tense negotiations and with just days left before the deadline, leaders from both sides announced.

The thousand-page trade agreement means that the U.K. can finally depart from the EU and sets up the framework for British-EU relations post-Brexit, according to The New York Times. The deal concluded more than four years of bitter Brexit negotiations after British citizens voted in favor of leaving the EU in June 2016.

UK Must Prepare for a No-Deal Brexit, Boris Johnson Says

October 17, 2020October 16, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a potential no-deal break from the European Union is likely unless the bloc had a “fundamental” change in position.

The European Union and the United Kingdom have struggled to strike a trade deal amid their negotiations, leading each side to blame the other as the end-of-year deadline approaches, the Associated Press reported.

UK, EU Leaders to Discuss Brexit, Free Trade Talks

October 3, 2020October 2, 2020 The Associated Press

The European Union and Britain said Friday that wide gaps remained in their fraught talks on a rudimentary trade agreement following the Brexit divorce and called for intensified negotiations before a deadline in a couple of weeks.

Nigel Farage to George Mason Heckler: ‘Why Don’t You Listen and Ask Questions?’

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

by Jon Street The Federalist Society chapter at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School in Virginia hosted Nigel Farage Thursday, but the Brexit leader’s speech was disrupted by a heckler who was then escorted out of the room. Campus Reform obtained exclusive video footage of the disruption, which lasted…

Commentary: A Very British Goodbye

February 2, 2020February 2, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

Perhaps the penny has dropped. All 50 of them. Great Britain has left the European Union. Plagues of locusts, pestilence, and lepers waited patiently in the wings.

EU Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly in Favor of Brexit

January 31, 2020January 30, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

PARIS – The European Parliament gave the green light for Britain’s departure from the European Union Wednesday evening, hours before Brexit becomes reality. The vote was overwhelming, 621 to 49, but it was an emotional departure.

Commentary: Love of One’s Country Won the British Election and It Will Win Again Here

December 21, 2019December 20, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

The Conservative Party won big in Great Britain’s parliamentary elections last week, prompting many analysts to wonder how it happened. The popular observation is that the Conservatives won due to Jeremy Corbyn, the controversial leader of the Labour Party. Corbyn’s associations with the IRA, Palestinian terrorists, Communist guerrilas, and anti-Semites didnt endear him to many voters. But too many conservatives think Corbyn’s controversial record, particularly the anti-Semitic accusations, is what decided the election.

Commentary: Making the Anglosphere Great Again

December 18, 2019December 17, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

The greatest significance in last week’s decisive and seminal British election is the victory it contains for the solidarity of the English-speaking peoples and the strength, coherence, and legitimacy of what Europeans frequently refer to as the Anglo-Saxons.

Commentary: Britain’s ‘Red Tory’ Future

December 15, 2019December 14, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

It appears that social media is not the real world. Indeed, contrary to the predictions I read there, the most seismic election in British history was not even close.

Boris Johnson on Friday morning returned as Great Britain’s prime minister atop a landslide of voters whom the progressive Left abandoned long ago.

Boris Johnson’s Conservatives Win in a Landslide, Labour and Liberal Democrats Crushed

December 14, 2019December 13, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

In the United Kingdom’s general election, the Conservative Party has reclaimed a working majority by an even larger margin than most predictions and opinion polls expected, as reported by The Guardian.

UK’s Johnson Sends Unsigned Brexit Delay Request to EU, Source Says

October 21, 2019October 20, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sent an unsigned letter to the European Union on Saturday requesting a Brexit delay and a separate note saying that he did not want an extension, a British government source said.

Brexit Breakthrough, but British MPs Could Torpedo EU Deal

October 19, 2019October 18, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

BRUSSELS – Britain and the European Union sealed a new withdrawal agreement Thursday, on the first day of an EU summit in Brussels, paving the way for Britain’s possible exit from the bloc at the end of the month.

Britain’s Supreme Court Rules Suspension of Parliament Unlawful

September 25, 2019September 24, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

Britain’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament for five weeks was unlawful and is “void and of no effect.”

Commentary: The Globalist Elites Are All-in for 2020 and the Free World Hangs in the Balance

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

In the words of the poet, there’s something happening here, but what it is ain’t exactly clear. At least not to the ossified bureaucracies that control public policy in the Western Hemisphere. Outdated and unscientific concepts of democracy – rule by majority – are interfering with the best laid plans of smart people.

Queen Elizabeth II to Suspend Parliament Amid Brexit Crisis

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

Queen Elizabeth II will prorogue Parliament at the request of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Trump Official: US Ready to Seal Trade Deal with Britain Post-Brexit

August 15, 2019August 15, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

White House enthusiasm for a trade deal with the United Kingdom is palpable.

Commentary: Boycott Culture Is All the Left Has Left

July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

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…

Britain’s Version of the Never-Trumpers May Bring Down the Government Over Brexit

June 25, 2019June 24, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

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…

Commentary: Nigel Farage is Britain’s Prime Minister-in-Waiting

June 2, 2019June 2, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

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…

Raheem Kassam Commentary: European Election Signal Surge in Support for Anti-Establishment Policies in the Age of Trump

June 1, 2019May 31, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

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…

British PM Theresa May to Resign After Bungling Brexit

May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

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…

Theresa May Is Reaching Out to the Socialists to Try to Save Her Brexit Deal

April 4, 2019April 4, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

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…

Bolton: Trump ‘Eager’ to Cut Deal With Post-EU Britain

March 31, 2019March 30, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

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…

Commentary: From Brexit to Trump, Elite Contempt Shines Through

March 17, 2019March 16, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

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,…

Brexit: What Now?

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

Veteran Conservative lawmaker Nigel Evans has been in Britain’s House of Commons for more than a quarter-of-a-century and, like most of his parliamentary colleagues, is stunned at the turn of Brexit events. “I got elected in 1992 and I don’t know if I have known any time more uncertain than…

Parliament Facing Brexit Decisions, More Drama, Deadline

March 11, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

After months of Brexit deadlock, this is it: decision time. At least for now. With Britain scheduled to leave the European Union in less than three weeks, U.K. lawmakers are poised to choose the country’s immediate direction from among three starkly different choices: deal, no deal or delay. A look…

Congress Wades Into Britain’s Brexit Drama

March 4, 2019March 3, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

With Britain deadlocked on negotiating its divorce from the European Union, an unexpected side-front is emerging, the U.S. Congress. Conservatives who pushed the June 2016 referendum that ended in the shock decision to leave the 28-member bloc dangled the prospect of a free trade agreement with the United States as…

Few Signs of Breakthrough as U.K.’s Prime Minister May Set to Unveil ‘Brexit Plan B’

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

Prime Minister Theresa May was set to unveil her new plan to break Britain’s Brexit deadlock on Monday — one expected to look a lot like the old plan that was decisively rejected by Parliament last week. May was scheduled to brief the House of Commons on how she intends…

Rethinking The Iron Lady: Lessons for Today’s Brexit

January 2, 2019January 1, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

by Silvio Simonetti Since the British population decided to strike a coup in the liberal political establishment voting for the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (Brexit), Westminster is in a political crisis. David Cameron resigned after the referendum’s outcome, and Theresa May’s government is burning in flames, and…

Britain’s May Postpones Crucial Brexit Vote

December 11, 2018December 11, 2018 Admin

Britain’s already disorderly departure from the European Union turned even more chaotic Monday when Prime Minister Theresa May postponed a House of Commons vote on her Brexit withdrawal deal, an agreement that took months of tortuous negotiations with Brussels to conclude. After four days of debate in the House of…

British Lawmakers Warn They Will Vote Against Brexit Deal

November 26, 2018November 25, 2018 Ohio Star Staff

It took Britain’s Theresa May and 27 other European Union leaders just 40 minutes to sign the Brexit deal after two years of tortuous negotiations, but the trials and tribulations of Britain’s withdrawal agreement approved Sunday in Brussels are far from over. As they endorsed the 585-page agreement, and…

Trump Notches a Big Win Against Russia After Merkel Folds on US Gas Imports

October 23, 2018October 22, 2018 Ohio Star Staff

by Chris White German Chancellor Angela Merkel is offering government support for a for project that would supply Germany with U.S. natural gas — the move comes as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to loosen Russia’s hold on Europe’s energy markets. Merkel told lawmakers in early October that her government…

EU Shreds Theresa May’s Brexit Plan, Leaving Negotiations At Square-One Just A Month Before ‘Moment Of Truth’

September 22, 2018September 21, 2018 Admin

by Will Racke Negotiations over Britain’s exit from the European Union broke down into bitter recriminations Friday, with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May accusing EU leaders of making a “mockery” of the process after they shredded her Brexit plan. In a combative speech at 10 Downing Street, May said…

The First Time Britons Voted to BREXIT Was Through the Magna Carta

July 21, 2018July 20, 2018 Admin

Magna Carta signing, Prime Minister's Questions

by Robin Koerner Many people regard Magna Carta as the first constitutional guarantee of the basic liberties of the English-speaking world. Fewer people know that Magna Carta wasn’t imposed on King John just because he abused his power (which, after all, has been true of most kings and governments throughout history)…

UK PM Theresa May’s Pick To Replace Boris Johnson Hates The ‘Arrogance’ Of The EU

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 Admin

by Evie Fordham United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May has tapped Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Jeremy Hunt as foreign secretary, hours after outgoing Boris Johnson announced his resignation. Hunt was not for Brexit at the time of the 2016 referendum, but he changed his tune because…

Commentary: Yes, Brexit Will Happen – And It Will Work

June 25, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

by Ted R. Bromund This week has seen big, and potentially confusing, events in Great Britain’s struggle to Brexit—to regain its national independence from the European Union. As we reach the second anniversary of the Brexit referendum, which took place on June 23, 2016, here’s what has happened. In 1973,…

Daniel Hannan Explains Why the EU is a Hive of Corruption

June 17, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

by Rev. Ben Johnson Two paths confront someone faced with an unwanted reality: reform or denial. With a report set to expose persistently high levels of corruption among its member states, the EU chose the latter option, its critics say. EU member states, programs, practices, institutions, and leaders stand accused of everything from bribery to…

UK’s Theresa May Orders Retreat to Sort Out Brexit Details

June 11, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

Reuters Prime Minister Theresa May will gather together squabbling British ministers gather country residence after this month’s European Union summit to settle on details of a much-anticipated Brexit policy paper. May has yet to agree on some of the fundamental details of what type of trading relationship she wants to…