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A week after Brexit and Boris Johnson has outlined a tough opening position for trade negotiations by talking up an Australia-style relationship, but does it mean anything? It’s hard for journalists to really take a look with the government taking a Trumpian turn by trying to lock out critical media from a key briefing this week. Meanwhile, Labour’s leadership election lets the prime minister run amok in the party’s former strongholds.Arj Singh is joined by Paul Waugh, Rachel Wearmouth and UK In A Changing Europe’s Anand Menon to work out what comes next for Britain.
With the withdrawal agreement signed and ratified, Britain is out of Europe! Well, not quite. First of all, we have to go through the transition period. Not much will initially change. You will still be able to travel, live and work in Europe as previous but Boris Johnson’s government has a tough twelve months to hammer out what the future relationship with Europe will look like.
After the referendum result on Brexit in 2016, fashion writer Sorcha McCrory began to question whether the Britain she was born and raised in was still the same. As Brexit dominated headlines, incidents of racism and blame began to swirl around the topic and in 2019 Sorcha moved to Copenhagen, Denmark as she felt that the UK was no longer a place where she could stay and wanted to remain a european citizen.
In Watford, voters feel that Brexit has cast a long shadow over politics and taken attention away from the issues that they care most deeply about. It's led to a sense of alienation from politics and sense of mistrust that nothing in the manifestos is true.
It’s been three years since the UK voted to leave Europe. As the EU delay their decision on how long the next extension should be until after Boris Johnson’s demand to have a snap general election is resolved in Parliament, take a look at Brexit’s tortuous journey to this point from the referendum vote in 2016.
An American cancer survivor has become the first person to swim across the English Channel four times in a row. Sarah Thomas, 37, completed the feat of endurance at 6:30 on Tuesday 17th September 2019 after more than 54 hours of swimming in strong tides and a year after undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
The home of Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, will be available on Airbnb for a one night stay. The stately home will open its doors to two guests who will get to experience what life might have been like for the Crawleys.
The Department for Transport calculated that the money could resurface more than 1,000 miles of road.
In 1975, Birdie McDonald answered an advert looking for people who would foster and adopt BAME children, due to a shortage of carers. Over the next 40 years she spent her life fostering over 800 children. Here’s what she’s learned about parenting along the way.
HuffPost UK/IPG Mediabrands launches art competition for Black History Month