The Taoiseach’s address to the nation on Saint Patrick’s night set a pretty perfect tone for where we find ourselves at the moment.

Democratic Unionist Party MP Sammy Wilson said his party continues to hold firm and will vote against Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.

The British Government has plans in place to bring home stranded UK holidaymakers if Thomas Cook goes out of business, an event that would likely spark chaotic scenes at resorts and airports around the world.

A senior US politician has warned that lawmakers could block a future US-UK trade deal if the Good Friday Agreement is undermined.

Boris Johnson has been the UK’s leader for just over a week, but he and his ‘Brexit war cabinet’ have achieved one milestone already: The pound has slumped to its lowest level against the US dollar and the euro since 2017.

The new Brexit war cabinet will meet today as Boris Johnson steps up planning for a no-deal scenario on October 31.

It came after a day of back-to-back leadership launches.

Global shares rose on the belief more central banks will be forced to cut interest rates to shelter the global economy from the trade wars, but crash-out Brexit fears weighed heavily on sterling.

Arch-Brexiteer Boris Johnson is the early front-runner to replace Theresa May after the tearful prime minister admitted defeat and finally named the date she will quit office.

Theresa May has this morning announced that she will step down as Conservative party leader on Friday, June 7.

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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar expressed his “disappointment” at the decision of UK prime minister Theresa May to renege on the Irish backstop in the event of a disorderly Brexit.

The Conservative MP for Dartford, Gareth Johnson, has resigned as a Government whip in order to oppose Theresa May's Brexit deal.

The Political Year 2018 was one dominated by two issues — Brexit and abortion.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned that Ireland “cannot contemplate” a hard Brexit situation which will create a physical border with Northern Ireland amid growing fears Britain could crash out of the EU without a deal.

The EU's chief Brexit negotiator says he wants an "all-weather insurance policy" to ensure there's no hard border.

Political chaos in the wake of shock resignations from Theresa May’s Cabinet is threatening to stall crucial negotiations over Brexit.

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Scotland Yard is urgently reviewing around 30 sex cases due to go to trial in the UK after the collapse of two rape prosecutions in the past week.

DRIVERS in Britain who kill someone in the most serious cases of dangerous and careless driving will now face life sentences. That will include those using their mobile phone while driving.

Tories in the UK have demanded a clampdown on trade unions in a show of “Thatcherite zeal” aimed at stopping a wave of industrial unrest.