Brexit

Many EU supporters are frustrated with Labour leader Keir Starmer over his dismissal of a return to the EU (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Brexit regret is growing and the campaign to rejoin the EU will come

Boris Johnson should focus on addressing the substance of the new Partygate allegations against him (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Populist attacks on UK institutions are unconservative and dangerous

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch has bowed to reality by scrapping a plan to allow thousands of EU-era laws to expire at the end of this year (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Tory Brexiteers starting to realise leaving EU was harder than they imagined

Ideological fools like Jacob Rees-Mogg should be ignored (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Sunak must focus on economy and ignore hardline Brexiteers – Scotsman comment

Lord Frost's contribution to Scotland's constitutional debate should be quickly forgotten (PIcture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Frost's attack on devolution played into the SNP's hands – Scotsman comment

Coaches wait to enter the Port of Dover during a weekend of lengthy delays for passengers (Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA)

Ministers’ incompetence as much to blame for Dover delays as Brexit

The UK has been admitted to the CPTPP by the trading bloc’s founder signatories (Picture: Claudio Reyes/AFP via Getty Images)

New trade deal may stop Britain from rejoining EU – Brian Monteith

Kemi Badenoch has said the UK joining a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc is “about the potential for growth tomorrow” as she downplayed estimates suggesting the deal would boost the economy by just 0.08%.

Badenoch downplays claims UK-Asia trade pact will only boost economy by 0.08%

MPs have voted in favour of regulations to implement the Stormont brake section of the Windsor Framework by 515 to 29, majority 486.

MPs back Rishi Sunak's new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is braced for a possible Tory backbench rebellion as MPs vote on a key plank of his new deal with Brussels on post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.

Boris Johnson and Liz Truss to vote against Sunak’s Brexit deal

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has announced the UK Government’s budget in the House of Commons - but what does it mean for the average Scot? Pic: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Here's what the Budget means for Scottish households

Suella Braverman's claim that an 'activist blob' is thwarting the 'will of the people' is dangerous populist rhetoric (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Braverman's rhetoric on immigration is dangerous populism – Scotsman comment

Rishi Sunak and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shake hands after negotiating the Windsor Framework (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

EU deal is a sign Sunak could win next general election – Murdo Fraser

Rishi Sunak speaks to local business leaders in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (Picture: Liam McBurney/PA)

Sunak's EU deal is a hopeful sign for future relations with Brussels

Rishi Sunak and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen shake hands during a joint press conference about the 'Windsor Framework' for Northern Ireland (Picture: Dan Kitwood/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Sunak's deal with EU is symptomatic of all that's wrong with today's Tories

Rishi Sunak greets EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Windsor this week (Picture: Dan Kitwood/WPA pool/Getty Images)

UK shouldn't try to rejoin EU but it can stop moving further away – Brian Wilson

Is Boris Johnson set to rebel against Rishi Sunak? (Picture: Matt Dunham - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Should Sunak be as brutal to Johnson as he was to Tory rebels?

Rishi Sunak talks to local business leaders during a visit to a Coca-Cola factory in Lisburn, Northern Ireland yesterday (Picture: Liam McBurney/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Dear Rishi, we couldn't agree more, EU single market is indeed a prize

Rishi Sunak and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen appeared pleased with their work addressing problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol (Picture:Dan Kitwood /pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Sunak's Northern Ireland deal with EU looks like a good one – Scotsman comment

Winter vegetables grown in this country could fill these empty supermarket shelves (Picture: Jane Sherwood/Getty Images)

Expectation to eat summer produce in winter is behind empty supermarket shelves

Rishi Sunak needs to strike a compromise deal over Northern Ireland with the EU (Picture: Justin Tallis/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Sunak must stand up to Brexit's 'irreconcilables' over Northern Ireland

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attends a Q and A session after speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. The Prime Minister is due to meet with a number of world leaders while at the summit. He is also expected to meet European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on the fringes to talk about a deal to fix the Northern Ireland Protocol. Picture date: Saturday February 18, 2023.

Sunak to push for Northern Ireland Protocol deal with EU leaders

Has Cabinet minister Michael Gove finally started listening to 'experts' about the damaging effects of Brexit? (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Secret meeting about Brexit suggests new sense of realism – Scotsman comment

During the Brexit talks, Cabinet minister Dominic Raab threatened to end negotiations unless the EU gave way on one point, but backtracked when Michel Barnier called his bluff (Picture: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images)

Grand illusion of Brexit puts ‘Scexit’ in a new light – Struan Stevenson

Brexit champion Nigel Farage is not widely regarded as a national hero (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

It's past time to get real about the damage caused by Brexit – Scotsman comment

EU and Union flags flutter in the breeze as Pro and anti-Brexit demonstrators protest outside of the Houses of Parliament in central London in 2019. Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

Why I'm no longer going to talk about Brexit - SNP's Alyn Smith

Security guards stop anti-Brexit activist Steve Bray approaching Keir Starmer (out of shot) during the 2021 Labour party conference in Brighton (Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)

Labour's attitude to EU is growing problem for isolated UK – Stewart McDonald

The UK flag flies outside the European Parliament in Brussels on January 31, 2020, the day Britain formally left the EU (Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Where's the public outrage over the awful reality of Brexit? – Alastair Stewart

A general view of the port and dockside area in Dundee, Scotland. The UK Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced sites of England's Freeports yesterday with Scotland's sites still to be decided. The Scottish government plans to adapt UK proposals for the establishment of Freeports making them Green Ports. In the running are Rosyth, Dundee, Hunterston, Orkney, Cromarty Firth and Aberdeen. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

All you need to know about freeports in Scotland

Anas Sarwar and Keir Starmer should work on a much clearer vision of the UK's future relationship with the EU (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

How Scottish Labour can make greater inroads on SNP support – John McLellan

Rishi Sunak must develop a more positive vision for the UK, starting by acknowledging the damage done by Brexit (Picture: Justin Tallis/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Indy poll shows the need for Sunak to create a positive vision of UK's future

An EU flag and a Union flag fly near the House of Commons (Picture: Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images)

Glimmer of hope that UK will one day rejoin EU is getting brighter

Brexit has done real damage to the UK economy (Picture: Frank Augstein/WPA pool/Getty Images)

UK's economic crisis reveals folly of Brexit. Scexit would be even worse

Joining Efta would give the UK access to the single market and enable public services and companies to employ much needed staff from the EU (Picture: Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images)

Kenny MacAskill: With economy in serious trouble, UK must join EU single market

Liz Truss put her ideological faith in low taxes above the advice of 'orthodox' economists (Picture: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Calamitous Truss provides a warning about blind faith in ideology – Scotsman

Prime Minister Liz Truss had admitted she does not expect trade deal negotiations with the US to recommence in the 'short to medium term' (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Truss admission confirms fantasy of easy US trade deal – Martyn McLaughlin

A haulage lorry driving passed a sign at Belfast Port, as The Northern Ireland Protocol has created a "feast or famine" economy in the region with some businesses struggling while others thrive, a parliamentary report has found.

UK risks angering EU further with response to post-Brexit legal threats

Conservative leadership contender Liz Truss plans 'a red tape bonfire' (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Brexit fundamentalism threatens swathe of environmental gains

The European Union regulates chemicals in a range of products, including cosmetics (Picture: Mireya Acierto/Getty Images)

Hard Brexit is putting people at risk from toxic chemicals – Dr Richard Dixon

Sam Ryder performs in the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin in May (Picture: Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images)

How a generation of musicians are being dragged down by Brexit – Laura Waddell

Cars queue at the check-in at the Port of Dover in Kent. Authorities have worked "around the clock" to clear both freight and tourist traffic in Dover, the port said. Some 72,000 passengers - more than 200 miles of tourist and freight traffic combined - had been processed by Sunday morning. Picture date: Sunday July 24, 2022.

More queues at Dover amid fears for ‘vulnerable’ summer

There will be increased transaction times at the border due to extra checks needed since Brexit, the chief executive of the Port of Dover has said.

Travellers warned of significant delays in Dover gridlock due to Brexit checks

Is Liz Truss a modern-day Savonarola? (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Truss's Bonfire of the Vanities sounds more dogmatic than the original

Foreign secretary and Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss leaving her campaign office in Westminster. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Truss promises ‘red tape bonfire’ with review of all EU law by end of 2023

The then-Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage during the 2019 General Election.

Reform UK face winding up petition over £22,000 debt owed to Scottish firm

Keir Starmer has ruled out rejoining the European Union, pledging instead to 'Make Brexit Work' (Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA)

Labour's refusal to consider EU return shows it's pandering to populist myths

Photo taken on November 19, 2019 - Boris Johnson wears boxing gloves emblazoned with "Get Brexit Done" Photo by Frank Augstein via Getty Images

New study finds competitiveness of UK damaged by Brexit

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss leaving 10 Downing Street, London, following a Cabinet meeting.

What is the Northern Ireland Protocol?

Leave Means Leave campaign group supporters celebrate as the United Kingdom exits the European Union on January 31, 2020 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Shortage of airport staff is just the tip of Brexit iceberg – Scotsman comment

Fhuair Boris air Brexit a dheànamh, ach am b’fhiach e? (Dealbh: Ben Stansall/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Tha Brexit ri choireachadh son gu leòr a throimh-chèile

Foreign secretary Liz Truss in the House of Commons, London, as she sets out her intention to bring forward legislation within weeks scrapping parts of the post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland. Picture: PA Wire

Liz Truss announces plans to suspend parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol

A man dressed as a customs officer and another dressed as Boris Johnson with protesters from Border Communities Against Brexit outside Hillsborough Castle during a visit by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Northern Ireland for talks with Stormont parties. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

What is the Northern Ireland Protocol and what could happen next?

P&O Ferries sacked 800 staff and replaced them with low-paid agency workers (Picture: Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images)

P&O sackings are a sign of where Brexit Britain is headed – Kenny MacAskill MP

Volunteers wait to help refugees from Ukraine arriving at the main train station in Berlin, Germany (Picture: Hannibal Hanschke/Getty Images)

UK's insistence that Ukraine’s refugees must get visa is immoral – Scotsman says

Picture: Jayne Wright

UK Government has ‘express objective’ to undermine Holyrood, says Sturgeon

The Scottish Parliament's ability to enact strong environmental legislation could be curtailed by the Internal Market Act (Picture: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

Post-Brexit rules threaten environmental standards in Scotland – Richard Dixon

Scotland faces being left out of pocket following Brexit, say SNP ministers

Scotland 'could miss out on hundreds of millions of pounds', warn SNP

Birds circle above fishing boats and trawlers as they sit moored at Lerwick Harbour in Shetland (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Betrayal of fishing industry after Brexit has been shameful – Simon Collins

Anti-Brexit campaigners demonstrate outside the Labour Party conference in Brighton in September (Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)

Starmer's Brexit stance is unlikely to go down well in Scotland – Joyce McMillan

Adam Hardie, business development partner and head of food and drink at Johnston Carmichael. Picture: Jakub Iwanicki

Scottish food and drink firms ponder future EU exports as Brexit hampers trade

Photo by GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images

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