A man claiming to have started the petition for a second EU referendum is as a right-wing activist who voted for Brexit, it has emerged. Oliver Healey, who is a candidate for the far-right English Democrats party, complained the petition has been “hijacked” by Remain campaigners. Three million people signed it in a matter of days as Remain backers seek ...

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Holyrood could block the Brexit process as the fallout from the EU referendum continues. Support among Scots for remaining in the EU was at 62 per cent in Thursday’s referendum, compared to 48 per cent in the UK as a whole. Ms Sturgeon said Scotland had voted “overwhelmingly” to stay part of the European ...

24 June 2016 Until yesterday, David Cameron and Boris Johnson shared an unbeaten record in big political contests. No longer. Cameron — the Tories’ biggest political winner in a quarter of a century — has finally lost to the biggest political character of the age. The Prime Minister announced his resignation today. Before the European referendum, Cameron had four victories ...

Friday 10 June 2016 Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, has slammed the door on Britain retaining access to the single market if it votes to the leave the European Union. In an interview in a Brexit-themed issue of German weekly Der Spiegel, the influential veteran politician ruled out the possibility of the UK following a Swiss or Norwegian model where ...

European migrants coming to the UK will have to prove that they can speak good English and be subject to an Australian-style points system if Britain votes to leave the EU, according to Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Priti Patel. The three leading Conservative out campaigners, who all sit in David Cameron’s main or political cabinet, have issued a joint ...

It could take Britain 10 years to negotiate a trade deal with the US if it votes to leave the EU, Barack Obama has said. Speaking to the BBC at the end of his final visit to the UK as president, Obama said: “It could be five years from now, 10 years from now before we’re actually able to get something done.” ...

Patients in the UK and European Union are facing shortages of vital medicines such as antibiotics and epilepsy medication, research published Thursday found. The report by Britain’s Nuffield Trust think-tank found the situation had become a “new normal” in the UK and was “also having a serious impact in EU countries”. Mark Dayan, Brexit programme lead at the Nuffield Trust ...

Details of a deal between the UK government and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to restore devolution in Northern Ireland have been published. The DUP has been boycotting Stormont’s power-sharing government for two years in protest at post-Brexit trade rules. The deal will reduce checks and paperwork on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. The changes apply to ...

Former minister David Davis has confirmed he intervened to stop an attack on a rough sleeper near Parliament on Tuesday evening. The veteran Tory MP said he stepped in when he two men began “kicking seven bells” out of another man on the floor. He told the BBC the man was so “badly beaten up” that he let him stay ...

The United Kingdom is set to implement substantial revisions to its Student visa rules effective January 1, 2024, impacting international students and their dependents. These changes are poised to reshape the landscape for those pursuing education in the UK. The recent regulations have implications not only for Bangladeshi students currently enrolled in educational institutions in the UK but also for ...