A UK diplomat in charge of Brexit at the British embassy in the US has quit.

A FORMER British diplomat said one government minister dismissed the risk of a no-deal Brexit on Irish firms as only affecting "a few farmers with turnips in the back of their trucks".

Despite its claims of exceptionalism and the freedom to succeed outside of the European Union, in reality, the UK is no longer in the room where it happens, says former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall.

Philippe Sands QC says there is parallel between alleged intimidation of MPs and ‘threatening behaviour’ overseas.

A senior British diplomat in the US has quit with a blast at the UK government over Brexit, saying she could no longer "peddle half-truths" on behalf of political leaders she did not "trust."

Alexandra Hall Hall said her position had become 'unbearable personally and untenable professionally'

Former UK diplomat reveals that foreign secretary made dismissive remark in 2019.

Alexandra Hall Hall says UK ‘damagingly’ downplayed impact on NI peace process.

Alexandra Hall Hall says UK ‘damagingly’ downplayed impact on NI peace process.

Before Brexit most of Britain's seasonal crop pickers came over from eastern Europe.

A former British diplomat, who was Boris Johnson's Brexit counsellor in Washington, has spoken of her dismay and anger at his administration’s attitude to the Irish border question when he became Prime Minister in July 2019.

The UK’s real problem never had anything to do with the EU – but was about the lack of capable and honest political leadership, according to the former diplomat who resigned from the Foreign Office over Brexit.