The decision to leave the European Union, which Britain joined half a century ago when it was the European Economic Community, was on a very narrow result. In the Brexit referendum in June 2016, 52 ...

All Brexit has done is make trade more difficult and bureaucratic' People – and not only farmers - are rightly sceptical about claims from the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves. However one claim she makes to ...

MPs have narrowly voted to introduce a Bill exploring the creation of a new UK-EU customs union in a move that will pile ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

Britons are leaving the UK at a much faster rate than previously thought, and Independent readers have been sharing vivid insights as to why that might be. Many pointed to better job opportunities, ...

LONDON — Negotiations are finally underway for Keir Starmer's much-hyped Brexit reset. Expect to relive some trauma. Six months ago, the British prime minister came to a “common understanding” with ...

LONDON — The U.K.’s political right wants to quit another European institution. Battle-scarred Remainers are leaving nothing to chance this time. With ministers struggling to stop undocumented ...

Stocks tumbled on Monday, extending a dayslong slide that presents a dilemma: Should investors buy in at bargain prices or unload in fear of worse to come? The tech-heavy Nasdaq plummeted 3% last week ...

We all knew it was bad. But the true extent of the damage caused by Brexit is beginning to reveal itself in previously unimaginable ways. The contentious decision to leave the EU in 2016 was, ...

The coming year will mark the tenth anniversary of David Cameron’s 2016 Brexit referendum, the most seismic British political event of recent decades. It will also be the moment for the five-yearly ...