SubscriptionsCategory: Brexit
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Taking Jobs or Creating Jobs? The Impact of Brexit on Wages
Jonathan Portes analyses Boris Johnson’s claim that curbing immigration should lead to a “high productivity, high wage” economy
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Brexit Forever: The Northern Ireland Protocol and the Government’s Brexit Addiction
David Frost’s speech on the Northern Ireland Protocol, and Dominic Cummings’ shocking revelations on Twitter, showed that the UK is playing the same old games over Brexit, says Mike Buckley
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Luftwaffle: Fantasy Nostalgia Betrays the Past, and the Present
Otto English explores the trend among Brexiters to summon myths about World War Two It’s a day of the week, so right-wingers are busy invoking World War Two again. In a country where virtually no-one goes to church any more, ‘The War’ has become a de-facto religion for many a Brexit-minded Conservative. And several have…
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The BBC Has an Institutional Culture of Brexit Self-Censorship
Former BBC producer Patrick Howse explores why the broadcaster is unwilling to speak truth to power over Brexit
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A Turning Tide? Johnson’s Campaign to Turn Two Fingers Up at Business Continues
Mike Buckley reflects on the Prime Minister’s attempts to distract from the economic plague that the Government has inflicted on the nation
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Brexit is to Blame for Lorry Driver Shortages, Voters Say
In an exclusive poll commissioned by Byline Times, voters revealed their views about the current HGV crisis, Brexit, the Government’s flagship ‘levelling up’ policy, Boris Johnson, and tax rises
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Deception Management: How Mendacity Devoured British Politics
Hadley Coull and Chris Ogden consider why policies and principles have been subsumed to the art of political deceit
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Britain’s Brexit Crises: On the Road to Perdition
Richard Barfield explains how long-term solutions will be required to reverse the labour shortages being experienced by the UK in the wake of EU workers returning to the continent
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Fixing A Chaotic State: How Should Labour Tackle Brexit?
The ‘B’ word is Labour’s elephant in the room. Mike Buckley considers how the party could finally turn it into a vote-winner
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Labour Should be Talking More About the Problems Caused by Brexit, Voters Say
Byline Times exclusively polled voters about the Labour conference, Brexit, the fuel crisis, and the ongoing ‘Corbyn versus Blair’ debate
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The Naked Emperor and the Language of Offence
Angela Rayner’s comments showed how we must disturb the present to improve the future, says Reverend Joe Haward
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Risk of Price Hikes Will Continue Without EU-UK Energy Deal, Expert Warns
Sam Bright speaks to a former EU energy chief about the problems posed by Brexit
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‘Project Fear’ is ‘Project Here’: UK Supply Chains Seize-Up Due to Anti-Immigration Politics
The Chief Executive of Scotland Food & Drink explains how a hard Brexit caused the current crisis, with the lowest stocks in shops and warehouses since records began
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The Brexit Tax: How Boris Johnson Broke his Promise on Energy Prices
In May 2016, the future Prime Minister promised that fuel bills would be slashed after Brexit – Sam Bright explores why the opposite has occurred
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Metrified – or Petrified? The Return of Imperial Measures is the Ghost of a Dead Cat
Though it stands no chance of return, trading standards officer Pippa Musgrave explains why the nostalgia for imperial measures is a deflection from the problems of Brexit
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Poorly Pooches Abandoned by Brexit
David Hencke reports on the national vets shortage, caused by the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, the Coronavirus crisis and a rise in the number of people buying pets
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Fake History: The New Brexiter Great Crusade
In the second part of his look at Brexit ‘campaigning’ groups, Otto English explores the attempts of those trying to weaponise their versions of British history and turning it into an orthodoxy which cannot be challenged
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How Cambridge Analytica’s Style Propaganda Failed in Afghanistan
Professor David Carroll reflects on the “colonialist, aristocratic, and oligarchic” assumptions of the campaigning firm involved in Trump and Brexit
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The View From The Rock: Brexit in Gibraltar
Since the EU Referendum, remain-voting Gibraltar has faced uncertainty, food shortages and ignorance – and people in the territory are doubtful that this will change
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‘A Party Within A Party’: Calls for Investigation into European Research Group, Paid Quarter of a Million in Taxpayer Cash Since Brexit
Byline Times reveals the membership and ministerial backing of the powerful group of ‘hard Brexit’ Conservative MPs
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Brexit and the Economy: The Story So Far
Jonathan Portes delves into the data on the economic performance of the UK after its exit from the EU’s single market and customs union on 1 January and assesses the real-world impact of these new trade barriers
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Cummings’ Brexit Confessions Reveal the Hollow Heart of a Hallowed Project
Jonathan Lis explains how the admissions of leading Brexiters five years on expose the continuing corruption of British politics by outright lies
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Touring in Europe: The Broken Instruments of Brexit
Philippe Auclair discusses the cultural isolation and loss which will result from British musical artists being deterred from performing in Europe
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While Britain Obsesses Over Europe, Europe Turns Away
Though Brexit no longer dominates the headlines in Europe, Europeans view it with a mixture of pity and concern, and look forward to the UK returning to its senses soon – if not to the EU
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Government Procurement and the Lack of Trust
After the scandal of crony contracts, Stephen Colegrave digs into the Government’s Green Paper setting out a new regime to regulate nearly £300 billion in public spending
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GB News Presenter Nigel Farage Emerges in Unredacted FBI Files
Zamaan Qureshi explores new revelations from the Mueller probe into the leaking of emails hacked by Russian intelligence services to Wikileaks during the 2016 US Presidential election
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Subverting the ‘Will of the People’: How Brexit Sowed the Wind
Chris Grey explores the forces unleashed by Brexit and how they reveal the weaknesses of Britain’s unwritten Constitution – vulnerable in its reliance on norms and conventions to deliver representative democracy
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Highwire Act: Why the Northern Ireland Protocol is the Ultimate Brexit Test
As the UK struggles with the reality that it is the only country in the world to create its own internal trade barrier, Mike Buckley looks at the dangerous pitfalls for Boris Johnson
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Tens of Thousands of EU Citizens in UK could have Missed Out on Applying for Settled Status, Lords Warn
In a new report, peers also raise concerns about the lack of certificates issued to those who have obtained settled status – raising concerns about how this group can prove that they have a right to be in the country
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‘A Convenient Scapegoat’: Empty Shelves are due to Brexit Not the Pingdemic – Here’s the Evidence
With supply chain problems being blamed on workers self-isolating, Caolan Robertson reports on what business owners, managers and labourers have been telling him across the country about the consequences of Brexit
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No Meetings Held by ‘Powerful’ Committees Set Up to Iron-Out Brexit Problems
One of the bodies – established to deal with post-Brexit chaos in the fishing industry – hasn’t met for three months, Sam Bright reveals
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Vote Leave’s Tearing Up of the Rules Comes Back to Bite its Leaders
The ‘culture war’ waged by Boris Johnson and Priti Patel relies on fear and silence – which is why Tyrone Mings’ intervention has been so powerful and unprecedented, says Sam Bright
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The Moral Vacuum of English Politics is a Replica of Trump’s America
Truth and decency have little currency in Boris Johnson’s rump Trumpocracy, says Sam Bright
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Retreat and Stalemate in the Phoney War Between the UK and the EU
David Hencke reports how sabre-rattling over sausages, fishing rights and data-sharing has generally ended in climbdowns or delays
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The Batley Battleground: A Microcosm of England’s Fractured Political Climate
The divisive, hostile forces that have plagued politics in recent years are now running wild in the West Yorkshire constituency, says Sam Bright
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Brexit Vote Five Years On
Five years after the EU Referendum, the country is stuck because no one will lead an honest conversation about the future, says Mike Buckley
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The Brexit Project’s Appropriation of the ‘Left Behind’
Five years after the EU Referendum, Sam Bright considers how perceptions of Brexit-voting areas have been warped by radical right-wing forces
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Ending the Corruption of the Great British State
Anthony Barnett traces the cause of the Brexit vote, how it led to our elected dictatorship being replaced with even darker forces, and considers a possible path ahead
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Europeans are Here to Stay in Brexit Britain
The impact of EU migration on the UK has barely begun, explains Jonathan Portes
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The UK’s Misrule-Based International Disorder
The G7 summit further wrenched Britain away from our liberal democratic allies, says Mike Buckley
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Measuring the Cost: Brexit Six Months On
The end of the transition period was merely a staging post within a process that will be long with us, says Chris Grey
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Fast Food Giants Latest Sector to Report Brexit-related Staffing Concerns
McDonalds joins restaurants, farmers and the meat processing industry with concerns that ‘reduced access to overseas labour would present a challenge to our business,’ reports Sian Norris
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How Will Johnson Get the Economy Out of the Mess Created by Brexit and COVID?
The UK’s economic future is less certain than it has been at any time since the 2008 financial crisis, says Mike Buckley
