FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is seen outside of Downing Street in London, Britain, February 4, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Wednesday that he was hopeful that a Brexit deal could be passed by the British parliament if the government’s attorney-general is in a

FILE PHOTO: Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, gives a speech at the EEF National Manufacturing conference, in London, Britain, February 19, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo (Reuters) – Joan Ryan, a Labour member of parliament, has become the eighth lawmaker to resign from Britain’s main opposition party. Ryan, a lawmaker elected from Enfield North,

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 13, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay (Reuters) – A no-deal Brexit would be a “mutual calamity” for Britain and the European Union that would deliver a sharp blow to the British economy, Finance Minister Philip Hammond said on Tuesday.

FILE PHOTO: Renu Begum, sister of teenage British girl Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister as she makes an appeal for her to return home at Scotland Yard, in London, Britain February 22, 2015. REUTERS/Laura Lean/Pool/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Shamima Begum, a teenager who left London when she was aged 15 to

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will pursue alternative arrangements to the Irish backstop – the most contentious part of the Brexit withdrawal deal – in its future trading relations with the European Union, Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said on Tuesday. The “Malthouse Compromise”, which has been championed by Conservative lawmakers from the party’s pro and anti-EU

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union Stephen Barclay walks outside of Downing Street in London, Britain, February 19, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls (Reuters) – Brexit Minister Stephen Barclay said the UK would take new legal proposals to the European Union on Wednesday and that they would be sufficient to secure an

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 14, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – A eurosceptic British lawmaker said the “Malthouse Compromise” – an attempt to redraft the contentious Irish backstop in the Brexit deal – was “alive and kicking” after a meeting with Prime Minister

LONDON (Reuters) – The British government will not pursue a compromise Brexit proposal, which has been championed by members of Theresa May’s Conservative Party, in negotiations with the European Union, reporters for the Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph said. The ‘Malthouse Compromise’ had been designed to help unite pro-EU and Brexiteer factions in her

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will meet top EU official Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels on Wednesday, pressing on with efforts to find a way to get their Brexit deal through Britain’s parliament. FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Theresa May meets with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to discuss Brexit, at the EU headquarters

FILE PHOTO: Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, arrives at the Natural History Museum in London, Britain February 12, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Meghan Markle, who is expecting her first child with Prince Harry in the spring, was in New York City on Tuesday for a baby shower, according to Harper’s Bazaar

James Goddard leaves a police station in central London, Britain January 12, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson LONDON (Reuters) – British prosecutors have charged a man with harassment and public order offences after he protested outside the Houses of Parliament against a lawmaker who is opposed to Brexit. The Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement that

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May is pictured outside the Houses of Parliament, in London, Britain, February 14, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May’s meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday is an important stage in Brexit negotiations with the European Union, her spokesman said on Tuesday. “There is a

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 13, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay BRUSSELS (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will travel to Brussels on Wednesday to “take stock of the latest state of play on Brexit” with the head of the EU’s executive European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, spokespeople

FILE PHOTO: José Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Portugal looks on during a panel discussion on “Can Europe’s politicians solve its migration crisis?” at Geneva’s graduate institute, in Geneva, Switzerland, October 20, 2016. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is likely to delay Brexit and not leave

LONDON (Reuters) – Seven Labour lawmakers quit on Monday over leader Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to Brexit and a row over anti-Semitism, saying Britain’s main opposition party had been “hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left”. In a direct challenge to Corbyn, the seven centrist MPs said they were courting others from across parliament

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, speaks at a conference on alternative models of ownership, in central London, Britain February 10, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – British opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will on Tuesday urge the government to adopt his party’s Brexit plan for a permanent customs union with