Brexit

The latest news, award-winning analysis, and in-depth features on the UK's exit from the European Union

We need Britain to get real about Brexit

Budgets in both Britain and Ireland have postponed difficult decisions in a manner that will reduce their room for manoeuvre when the next election looms

EU demands UK pay into budget as part of relationship ‘reset’

Growing tension between London and Brussels just six months after summit set out to build stronger ties

Continued skilled inward migration will be vital to our future

Our openness can be a strength and we need managed growth in labour force to remain competitive

Irish influence in the US is waning, says new report from influential think-tank

Policy Exchange, which has been criticised for failing to disclose its funders, releases report assessing State’s international status

Fine Gael should never again send a Protestant candidate into a sectarian storm

Presidential election: Never again should Fine Gael send a Protestant candidate out, unprepared, into a sectarian storm

Ireland is riding two horses galloping in different directions across the Atlantic

Nostalgia can not blind us to the new realities of the collapsing alliance between the US and Europe

If Nigel Farage wins the next UK election, the consequences for Ireland will be profound

There is widespread desire for electoral change and a greater political role for England

Starmer’s new Brexit line: it’s a disaster – and Farage is to blame

Downing Street insiders say Labour’s frontbench have been primed to blame the current economic woes on Brexit and Reform UK

Barry’s Tea, brack and quiet deals: the breakfasts where Europe’s leaders set the agenda

Ireland’s early morning pre-summit meeting with Nordic and Baltic States is now a fixture of Brussels diplomacy

Political Change Across Britain and Ireland - Identities, Institutions and Futures: Undoubtedly the UK is in trouble

Questions well posed here may be impossible to resolve, but they will consume the attention of a generation

Tories’ future as political party capable of governing is at stake: ‘It is that serious’

Whether to focus more on people’s pockets or UK borders is big question at Conservative Party conference

A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries: Clever but with shortcomings

This is a lively and at times bitingly funny attempt at summarising a broad field

Talks on food and meat sales between EU and UK could be completed ‘in less than a year’

It had been understood that they could take until 2027

Keir Starmer delivers perhaps his best speech so far as UK prime minister

Labour leader takes the fight to his internal and external political enemies in address to his party’s conference in Liverpool

Is Britain’s ailing Conservative Party finally over?

Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block

Injury Time by Kevin Smith: Engrossing and supremely witty

The protagonist, a marvellous creation, is embedded in the affluent world of north Co Down – a Protestant world of generational wealth and no little ostentation

Ratifying the Mercosur deal is a no-brainer

Allegation that Mercosur might adversely affect beef farmers through falling prices is a scare story without real foundation

Diarmaid Ferriter on Speaking My Mind by Leo Varadkar: Jaunty but superficial and lazy at times

Former taoiseach provides gossip and entertaining titbits but displays detachment about matters of substance

How the Nigel Farage factor could upend the Belfast Agreement

Quitting the European Convention on Human Rights is the latest talking point among those eager to tighten immigration control

Outgoing British ambassador Paul Johnston appointed to lead Irish Universities Association

Johnston to leave the British diplomatic service to take up his new role

Burying the Enemy - The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars: A civilising veneer for savagery

A thoughtful book about unfortunate men and what their treatment says about British-German relations

Philip Stephens: ‘I am privileged to be Irish as well as British’

Stephens talks about visiting his grandparents in Co Mayo, how Scotland will become independent before Northern Ireland joins the Republic and more

Nicola Sturgeon on Leo Varadkar’s shyness, Enda Kenny’s charm and Martin McGuinness’s bear hugs

The former Scottish National Party leader talks politics, life, love, pain and her new autobiography

Chance to end the scourge of paramilitaries in Northern Ireland cannot be lost again

London’s abdication of social and political responsibility has fuelled sense of loss in loyalist areas

There’s more to Irish history than eight centuries of British oppression and failed uprisings

Whether we’re moving towards a united Ireland or shared island, we need to face awkward questions about identity

10% for Bushmills, 15% for Jameson: The bewildering cross-border trade

Business on both sides of the Border are trying to figure out the financial implications of Trump’s different tariffs with the UK and EU

Don’t believe the myth: Britain’s services industry has been hit hard by Brexit

Export growth has been strong but not lived up to its potential

UK and France agree one in, one out migrant returns scheme

French president blames Brexit for making it harder to tackle illegal migration

Wage bill at Spar operator Henderson Group eats into profits

Sales at Northern Ireland retail group reached £1.4bn last year, new accounts reveal

Post-Brexit export drive hampered by UK trade finance regulations, ICC warns

International Chamber of Commerce says overhaul of rules could help plug £22bn funding gap

The Irish Times view on young people and democracy: increasing disenchantment

The growing alienation from politics reflects the sense among young people that the system has failed them

David McRedmond: ‘An Post has been brilliant. I’ve never been remunerated less and enjoyed a job more’

McRedmond’s credo is: ‘All businesses are dying; you have to find the new thing’. He has lived that philosophy at State-owned postal service, whose core business has shifted from letters to parcels and, increasingly, financial services

EU blocks Britain’s attempts to join pan-European trading bloc

The PEM convention would reduce exporters’ post-Brexit difficulties with supply chains

Brexit was ‘single stupidest thing a country’s ever done’

US businessman and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg links Ireland’s recent success to Brexit

In 28 Years Later, Brexit Britain runs screaming towards its Apocalypse Now. What took it so long?

Danny Boyle, a stubborn Mancunian of Irish descent, can feel proud of showing how the subject can be addressed without dragging your art into po-faced agitprop

Banks that fuelled Ireland’s finance rebound face tariff angst

Ireland has become a big draw for foreign lenders post-Brexit with international banks now employing close to 15,000 people in the State

Resilient economy gives reason for optimism despite Central Bank’s ‘extreme’ scenario

Regulator lays out how US tariffs might hit Ireland’s export-led, multinational-heavy economy

Supply risk identified for some UK animal medicines shipped to North

UK government says most veterinary products will remain available as part of post-Brexit arrangements from January

28 Years Later review: Danny Boyle’s rattling zombie epic never lets up in pace or invention

Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes star in a quest narrative that, amid its grade-A gore, has bleak fun with the state of Britain

Ireland’s grocery prices are still soaring. How can that be?

The cost-of-living crisis is still being felt painfully in the weekly shop, yet the consumer protection watchdog has found no evidence of price gouging

Ballymena: Week of violent attacks on Northern Ireland’s small immigrant community ‘akin to 1930s Germany’

14 families burnt out of their homes and children forced to hide from mobs

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