EU REFERENDUM NEWS AND BREXIT POLLS AS UK VOTES TO LEAVE

More than 80 MPs plot to hold a vote calling for a second EU referendum as it's revealed the Government will claim Brexit can be REVERSED in its Supreme Court bid to duck the Commons poll 

12/11/16 16:17

09/11/16 21:20

The European Council's top brass believe the EU and the US 'simply have no option but to cooperate closely' as Nigel Farage announced Britain was in pole position to benefit from Donald Trump's win.

09/11/16 18:26

Leicester-based Walkers, which is owned by the American giant PepsiCo, is increasing the price of crisps by 10 per cent - blaming the rise on the result of the EU referendum.

09/11/16 16:53

A 6.1 per cent boost in goods being sold abroad helped cut the UK's overall trade deficit by £1.6billion in the quarter after the referendum.

08/11/16 22:25

The Scottish First Minister announced she is applying to join the case over whether parliamentary approval is needed to invoke Article 50. The appeal begins on December 5.

08/11/16 00:44

Brexit campaigners were frequently criticised during an angry referendum battle for making claims - including that the EU costs £350 million a week - that were not true.

07/11/16 20:48

Walkers, whose crisps are made at a Leicester factory with British potatoes, has been slammed for the rise - with many angry crisp fans promising to boycott the brand.

07/11/16 18:26

ITV reporter Libby Wiener asked the Labour leader if he backed an early general election to end debate over Theresa May's power to start Brexit talks.

07/11/16 15:20

The prime minister said she valued the independence of the judiciary but insisted the freedom of the press was important. She made the comments before arriving in India for trade talks.

07/11/16 09:55

British grocery giant Unilever appears to be carrying out its warning that it would increase the cost of its products, which also include PG Tips and Pot Noodle.

07/11/16 08:48

A gang of MPs and peers have threatened to block the formal EU exit process unless Theresa May (pictured) agrees to a so-called soft Brexit – code for allowing free movement to continue.

07/11/16 07:32

Here we look at four of the law lords set to hear the Brexit case in December. All have links to the European legal establishment.

07/11/16 01:16

The Health Secretary played down suggestions that Theresa May would be forced to call a snap poll – saying it was the ‘last thing’ the Government or the people wanted.

06/11/16 16:31

The Labour leader made a series of demands about future ties to Brussels and suggested his MPs would not support invoking Article 50 if they were not met, but was quickly contradicted.

06/11/16 11:03

Theresa May has vowed she will not allow her hands to be tied in negotiating a post-Brexit future for Britain, as she travelled to India on a mission to lay out an "ambitious" trade deal.

06/11/16 02:08

The company’s American owner claims ‘fluctuating exchange rates’ due to Britain’s decision to quit the EU has pushed up the cost of oil, seasoning and packaging.

06/11/16 01:37

Stephen Phillips, Tory MP for Sleaford, Lincolnshire, complained at not being given a top job by Theresa May and was scathing in private about Jeremy Wright, according to Conservative sources.

06/11/16 00:53

Ms Truss broke her silence to say the independence of the judiciary was the ‘foundation upon which our rule of law is built’.

05/11/16 12:59

The High Court's ruling that the British Government must go through Parliament to formally activate the Brexit process has prompted a furious and exasperated reaction on social media.

05/11/16 00:52

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May promised to defeat any 'profoundly undemocratic plot' by Nick Clegg to frustrate the Brexit process with amendments in Parliament.

04/11/16 16:08

The mother-of-three (pictured) - who was born in Guyana but grew up in Britain - was called a 'foreigner' and an 'immigrant' by trolls, with others saying she should be deported.

04/11/16 15:26

The Lord Chief Justice and two senior colleagues were accused of putting Britain on course for a full-blown 'constitutional crisis' by saying Brexit could not be triggered without a Westminster vote.

04/11/16 09:26

Just as Britain is finding its feet after the political turmoil of recent months, an unholy alliance of Remoaners are unleashing wrecking tactics, writes DOMINIC RAAB.

04/11/16 09:21

Voters were too immature – and influenced by racism – to decide a big thing like Brexit, said a Labour MP with satisfaction after the High Court ruled against the Government.

04/11/16 09:19

To the mass of the fair-minded public, yesterday’s ruling by three High Court judges that Parliament should have the chance to reconsider Brexit will have come as an outrageous betrayal of democracy.

04/11/16 09:17

Theresa May could be forced to hold an early election if judges and Remain campaigners do not back down in the war against Brexit, Tory MPs warned last night.

04/11/16 08:33

There may not be any tanks on the streets, but be under no illusion: what we’re seeing now is an attempted coup designed to overthrow the will of the British people, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.

03/11/16 22:12

The dramatic decision handed down at the High Court threatened to send the Prime Minister's plans for cutting ties with Brussels into turmoil and sparked fury that 'activist' judges are mounting a 'power grab'.

03/11/16 18:49

A furious Nigel Farage today warned there would be public outrage if parliament used powers confirmed by the High Court to block the referendum result.

03/11/16 02:46

The word Brexit was first recorded by Collins in 2013, but it became much more popular as the UK headed towards the vote and the campaign, led by Boris Johnson (pictured), heated up.

01/11/16 10:19

Sir David Attenborough said the vote from 17.4million British citizens to leave the EU had created a 'mess' and argued that the decision should have been left to MPs 'to vote on our behalf'.

31/10/16 08:01

Strathclyde University research says leaving the EU won't create significant risks for Scotland’s banks and finance firms. Nicola Sturgeon, however, is demanding a second independence referendum.

31/10/16 08:00

Arron Banks dismisses Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor and regarded by many as Leave’s intellectual heavyweight — as ‘a waxwork from a dusty crypt — where did they dig him up?’

28/10/16 19:48

A cross-party group of politicians, including SDLP leader Colum Eastwood (pictured) contested the validity of the historic EU referendum result without a vote in Northern Ireland's Stormont Assembly.

28/10/16 19:21

The former Prime Minister said voters must be given the chance to change their minds on the EU and called for the losing Remain campaign to become the 'new insurgents'.

28/10/16 18:33

JCB boss Lord Bamford issued a vote of confidence in post-Brexit Britain by saying UK firms are 'very adaptable' and would 'take tariffs in their stride' if the EU imposes levies after Brexit.

25/10/16 01:48

Sterling’s fall from $1.50 to $1.22 against the dollar has made UK goods much more attractive to overseas buyers, says a CBI survey. Exports are now rising at their fastest pace in two-and-a-half years.

24/10/16 08:23

Mr Benn also demanded a Commons vote on Theresa May's negotiating strategy - but conceded a bitter fight over the triggering of Article 50, the EU treaty clause which will initiate the process.

22/10/16 17:22

Often, as Big Ben chimes 1.30am, a light can be seen burning in the Downing Street flat where Theresa May lives with her husband Philip. Mrs May likes to work on government papers late into the night.

22/10/16 09:52

Theresa May has slapped down Michel Barnier after he apparently demanded that his native tongue be the 'working language' during the fraught process.

22/10/16 01:06

The Prime Minister appealed for counterparts to see 'opportunities not problems' in the UK's departure from the bloc, saying there had to be 'give and take'.

21/10/16 23:33

For the first time since shutting its doors after the EU referendum, investors will be able to pay into or withdraw money from the M&G fund from November 4.

21/10/16 23:18

The married Polish mother explained that she had lived in Britain for 23 years and had 'never been discriminated until Brexit came about'.

21/10/16 14:27

George Osborne, architect of Project Fear, said in a frank interview today that many northern voters felt 'completely disconnected' from Westminster and used the EU vote to express their anger.

21/10/16 09:43

As she attended her first EU summit, the Prime Minister faced a barrage of demands from Eurocrats determined to preserve rules on free movement.

21/10/16 07:59

The Prime Minister’s spokesman called for Miss Sturgeon to respect the ‘resounding result’ of the 2014 referendum after the SNP leader published her blueprint for another independence vote.

21/10/16 01:31

Daniel Korski, who was at David Cameron's side at many EU summits, said EU leaders stubbornly rejected repeated appeals by No 10 to reform the bloc's freedom of movement rules.

19/10/16 19:23

It means Britain might not be out of the EU before April 2019, the date previously expected after she announced earlier this month that she would trigger Article 50 by spring next year.

18/10/16 10:10

Boris Johnson wrote the Remain article as a way of testing his increasingly strong feeling that the Leave campaign had the better arguments, writes DOMINIC LAWSON.

17/10/16 12:54

The Foreign Secretary faced embarrassment on Saturday when a copy of an unpublished article arguing for Remain was released, and has now been urged to quit by a key Merkel ally.

16/10/16 07:39

After a row in a restaurant with pro-Merkel politicians Tory MP David Davies (pictured) stormed out, declaring: ‘I’m sick of being accused of lying. I’m bloody glad we’re leaving the EU!’

16/10/16 02:05

The value of sterling – which hit a 168-year low at one point last week – has slumped by 20 per cent against the US dollar and 19 per cent against the euro compared to last October.

16/10/16 01:56

Friends of Philip Hammond (pictured with Prime Minister Theresa May) fear that, at the age of 60, he will walk out of the Government over a ‘hard’ Brexit rather than stifle his opposition.

16/10/16 01:23

An unpublished article by Boris Johnson, written two days before he joined the Leave campaign for the European Union, the former Mayor of London voiced support for remaining in the EU.

15/10/16 17:42

Duncan Keating (pictured) was attacked and threatened with being set alight by neighbour Graham Dunne in Manchester after Dunne found out Mr Keating had voted Leave.

15/10/16 07:09

A post-Brexit visa shakeup will require migrant workers to secure skilled work before they arrive in the UK. Students and tourists will continue to have free access even after full Brexit.

15/10/16 03:36

Angus Robertson, who won a landslide election to the post yesterday, insisted 'Remain means Remain' after Scotland refused to back Brexit unlike in England and Wales.

15/10/16 01:44

Former justice and education secretary Michael Gove has slammed those in the Remain camp who cannot accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, and urged them to move on.

14/10/16 00:54

The letter to Tony Hall is signed by Tory MPs Philip Davies and Philip Hollobone, Labour’s Kate Hoey, pictured, Conservative MEP Dan Hannan and former Ukip leader Lord Pearson.

14/10/16 00:12

The EU council president, who will oversee Britain's negotiations to quit the trading bloc, said there was no such thing as a 'soft Brext'.

13/10/16 18:21

Gina Miller is the leading figure in a High Court challenge demanding that Theresa May stage a vote in parliament before invoking Article 50.

13/10/16 17:38

It is as if the great news of June 24, that dawn of our liberation from the bossy EU, has only just reached this metropolitan elite, such as George Osborne, circled, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

13/10/16 17:20

A receipt from a bureaux de change at London's City Airport today demonstrates how the exchange rate has dropped dramatically has fallen in the wake of the EU referendum.

13/10/16 16:45

Nicola Sturgeon vowed to fight against the 'right wing of the Tory Party' imposing a 'hard Brexit' on Scotland as she opened the party's annual conference in Glasgow.

13/10/16 16:27

Eurocrats are preparing calculations for the sums that need to be divided up as the UK entangles itself from the bloc, and are expected to present a huge final bill.

13/10/16 12:15

Mr Banks set up Leave.EU to pursue his own vision of the Brexit campaign and wanted to defeat Vote Leave in the race for the official Out campaign designation.

13/10/16 10:31

David Cameron came third from bottom in the table of post-war leaders but would have been classed as the biggest failure based on rankings for only his second term.

13/10/16 03:20

Banks lent £12.2billion to home-buyers in August, up 14 per cent from July, when there was a lull in mortgage lending following the EU referendum in June.

13/10/16 01:37

Much to my surprise, the BBC played with a remarkably straight bat during the weeks leading up to the referendum vote on June 23, writes STEPHEN GLOVER.

13/10/16 01:00

In heated exchanges in the Commons, Prime Minister Theresa May dismissed demands for MPs to be given a vote on the terms of Britain’s departure from the EU.

12/10/16 18:15

Waking up yesterday, it was as if Britain had been transported back to those febrile, fractious days in May and June, when the EU referendum campaign was being so ferociously contested.

12/10/16 17:01

Labour hailed a significant concession today after the Prime Minister accepted there should be 'full and transparent' debate before Article 50 is invoked, but Mrs May has dismissed calls for a Commons vote.

12/10/16 16:26

Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was 'highly unlikely' Paris or Frankfurt could supplant the capital in the 'foreseeable future'.

12/10/16 14:48

Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel said making people wait two hours to get into Italy or Spain would make clear why free movement rules are crucial to the EU.

11/10/16 18:27

Tory MP Steve Baker told MailOnline 'No one will believe the now discredited propaganda of the defunct Remain campaign' after the Treasury papers were leaked today.

11/10/16 16:41

The ex-chancellor waded into the row over the government's increasingly tough approach to Brexit, mocking the idea that more trade with Australia could make up for looser ties with Germany and France.

11/10/16 15:30

Dominic Cummings, campaign director of Vote Leave, said that without the Ukip leader’s intervention, the Brexit side would have won by 60 per cent to 40.

09/10/16 16:07

Mr Hammond, who has warned against cutting all ties with Brussels, believes tough guy Mr Davis should be banned from negotiations with the EU – and forced to stay at Westminster.

09/10/16 04:36

The threats came after a series of blazing rows in Westminster between Tory MPs and Vote Leave director Dominic Cummings, a close personal and political ally of Mr Gove.

09/10/16 04:13

CBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn said firms were currently putting investment on hold and that they needed to know from Theresa May that the UK would not be pulled out of the single market.

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