French politician Michel Barnier was the European Commission’s chief negotiator in Brexit talks. He once condemned former Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal, saying he was ...

On Jan. 31, 2020 at 11 p.m. London time – midnight at EU headquarters in Brussels — the U.K. officially left the bloc after ...

Sir Oliver Robbins, who led the botched Brexit negotiations while Theresa May was prime minister, will serve as the most senior civil servant in the department. Conservative MP Mark Francois ...

Theresa May's senior Brexit negotiator Sir Oliver Robbins is to return to politics as the top civil servant at the Foreign Office, it was reported today. Sir Oliver worked alongside Baroness May ...

The pair have their work cut out. Robbins is best remembered as the man Theresa May chose to be her chief Brexit negotiator during those anguished post-referendum years. A dedicated public servant ...

The Tory leader acknowledged her party had made mistakes over initiating Brexit under the leadership of Boris Johnson and Theresa May, as well as on immigration in recent years. She told a central ...

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A committed Brexiteer she voted for both Johnson and Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement after becoming an MP in 2017. She served as international trade secretary under Truss, responsible ...

Mr Tusk, however, has form for bemoaning Brexit. He was ... UK's Eurosceptics came in 2019 when the-then prime minister Theresa May was struggling to get a deal. He spoke of "what the special ...

She supported Brexit in the EU referendum and backed Mr Johnson and Theresa May's withdrawal agreements after becoming an MP in 2017. Throughout the campaign, Vote Leave argued that exiting the EU ...