There are good reasons to believe latest move is partly theatre, but there are hefty issues at stake.
Hardline European Research Group branded ‘a corruption of Conservatism’ by senior Tory MP
06/08/2020
Organisation which drove UK to a hard Brexit made up of ‘climate change deniers’ and ‘Trump sympathisers’, new book is told.
Boris Johnson’s next Tory rebellion could be on Brexit as Eurosceptic MPs wake up to the true nature of withdrawal agreement
05/08/2020
Senior Brexiteers endorsed the Prime Minister’s deal but some have now turned against it and want to see it replaced.
Michel Barnier schools Mark Francois on the Brexit deal he backed in the House of Commons
10/07/2020
Michel Barnier has schooled Brexiteer MP Mark Francois on the Withdrawal Agreement that he and his European Research Group (ERG) colleagues voted for, and told him that him there was no “added value” in leaving the EU.
This week, the practical realities of what Brexit is going to mean came into central focus for perhaps the first time, with a new government information campaign.
How balanced was the debate over Brexit?
13/07/2020
In the debate over Brexit, accusations of an anti-Brexit or pro-Brexit bias by the media have been a recurring feature.
Under cover of Brexit - Chris Grey
03/07/2020
The most important Brexit event of the week came and went with relatively little fanfare, yet it marks a significant moment.
The leader of the right-wing Tory pressure group the European Research Group (ERG) has stepped down.
Boris Johnson thinks he’s got a deal. Arlene Foster isn’t so sure. Nobody knows what’s in the deal – but some of the ERG think it’ll pass the Commons anyway. The Remainiacs team gather to work out what we know, what we don’t know… and what we think will be put before Parliament on Saturday.
A Tory MP was irked during an interview with BBC News this morning after being interrupted by anti-Brexit campaigners.
Trade minister rejected Boris Johnson’s claim exporters would be spared tariffs after no deal
Boris Johnson threatens to withhold £39bn from EU as he wins support of hardline Brexiteers
09/06/2019
Boris Johnson has said he would refuse to pay the promised £39bn to the EU unless it offers better terms on Brexit.
Remainiacs Ep. 110 - STOP THE CLOCKS: The delay is away, plus Future Politics with Jamie Susskind
11/04/2019
As Theresa May bows to the inevitable and asks for a short delay to Brexit, we ask what it’ll mean when a merciful EU insists on rather a longer one. Do the hard Brexit headbangers have what it takes to bring her down or are the ERG now fatally split? Were the Lab-Con talks just about optics? What is “perfidious Albion” anyway? ...
Former Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston has told The Independent she is too afraid to advertise meetings in public because of death threats and abuse – and said some of her former Tory colleagues are to blame for encouraging a culture of violent hostility towards politicians.
This subset of Brexit ultras is revelling in their moment in the spotlight to deploy metaphors of war and martyrdom.
Conservative Brexiteer pushes far-right anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of 'cultural Marxism' used by Anders Breivik
26/03/2019
A former Brexit minister and leading Conservative MP has been accused of pushing a "far-right" anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about the spread of "cultural Marxism" in the UK.
'I've spoken to ambassadors from various countries and there is no hope of us getting a veto to stop an extension'
"[Theresa May] has allowed hardliners in the ERG group to hijack the government and hijack the country." - Yvette Cooper
11/03/2019
[Theresa May] has allowed hardliners in the ERG group to hijack the government and hijack the country." Labour's Yvette Cooper says that "instead of reaching out", Theresa May has allowed Conservative Eurosceptics to set the Brexit agenda.
Verdict from QC advising hardline Conservatives on Irish backstop would sink prime minister's deal in next week's 'meaningful vote' - if followed.
Terrifying ignorance by the ERG’s @ABridgen [Andrew Bridgen] saying UK can get ten years on zero tariffs
23/02/2019
Terrifying ignorance by the ERG’s @ABridgen, saying UK can get ten years on zero tariffs to agree an FTA by “instigating GATT24”, being told by @NickBoles the WTO have already ruled out that option...
Remainiacs Ep. 99 - THE NOTORIOUS T.I.G.? Labour and Tory breakaways – with special guest Cristo Foufas
21/02/2019
Eight Labour MPs including Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna quit Labour over anti-semitism and Corbyn’s intransigence over Brexit. Then three Tory women – Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Woollaston – resign from the party they now say is irrevocably dominated by the hard Right and its ERG extremists. What can the Independent Group achieve and what must they do to achieve it?
John Major attacks ‘zealot’ Conservative Brexiteers but urges moderate Tories to stay in the party
19/02/2019
Both main parties are being ‘manipulated by fringe opinion’ says former prime minister as he condemns ‘extreme’ Tory MPs’ ‘intransigence’.