The announcement means he has abandoned plans to contest more than 600 candidates in the upcoming ballot.

Almost three and a half years after the Brexit referendum the uncertainty continues.

It is not necessary to be a pessimist much less a fatalist to feel we are living through a moment of great change, a moment of great reversal.

The US president staged a major intervention by calling for the Prime Minister to team up with the Brexit Party leader to form an “unstoppable force” for the December 12 vote.

It's the right thing to do under the circumstances but no one knows whether the €1.2bn Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe says he has ringfenced to alleviate the worst effects of a crash-out Brexit will be enough.

Minister of State at the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Patrick O’Donovan has described the latest Brexit proposals as not the basis for a deal, but they do form the basis for further negotiations.

Media in Britain have been scrambling to react to the news that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was deemed unlawful.

Gina Miller, who led the legal challenge against the move to prorogue parliament, said outside the Supreme Court that it was a win for parliamentary sovereignty.

Vested interests degrade society. DUP spurning best of both worlds, EU-UK withdrawal agreement between 28 EU states, two years negotiated 585 pages. Right-wing UK press laughs at “remainers” and “backstop”, courting social disaster sneering at the EU that brought peace, prosperity to member states over seven decades.

Sterling regained more ground last week as UK politicians moved to close off the prospect of a no-deal Brexit at the end of October.

The everyday language used to colour political discourse hardly seems equal to keeping pace with the convention-shattering chaos of trying to deliver on the 2016 52/48 Brexit vote.

Despite repeatedly insisting he didn’t want a general election, Johnson has now tried and failed to get parliament to support one. It now looks like he’ll try again or seek a vote by some other route. Having lost his majority and control of parliament, a general election seems almost inevitable now. The big question, though, is when it will happen.

Latest: Boris Johnson has responded to his brother Jo's announcement this morning that he is quitting politics.

Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, has confirmed that he will call a vote on holding a general election if MPs legislate to block a no-deal Brexit.

British democracy was long renowned for its moderation, but its Brexiteer prime minister has pitched it into a political civil war with Remainers, says Philippe Legrain.

Greta’s urgency is about the survival of our species and is informed by hard scientific research carried out on behalf of the common good. Boris’s urgency is driven by ego and the egg on his and his party’s face, writes Joyce Fegan.

At this stage it would be understandable if Cork businesses were, like the general public, suffering from Brexhaustion.

Speculation is rife about a general election being called in the near-term despite the route to an early vote being complicated by 2011 legislation, writes Robert Hutton

The UK’s new prime minister seems intent on refashioning his party in the image of the majority that voted for Brexit. First, he needs to win an election, says

Jeremy Corbyn must expose Boris Johnson’s Trump-deal Brexit and put forward Labour’s plan to end the interminable Brexit ordeal immediately, suggests Yanis Varoufakis.

The hard line over Brexit taken by Boris Johnson in his first speech in the House of Commons as British prime minister suggests a strategy that will inevitably lead to an early general election.

A Brexit Party bus has been towed after it was pictured empty with its doors open on the side of a road in Wales.

Boris Johnson has been confirmed as the Conservative Party’s new leader – and the UK’s next prime minister.

With polls indicating Boris Johnson could win the Tory leadership battle by a landslide, the irony is that his hold on power may be extremely fragile, says Andrew Hammond.

It is the nature of our world that sometimes single events can seem, though significant, hardly groundbreaking.

This week our neighbours, or at least a tiny minority of them, will select the next leader of the Conservative Party and, by extension, Britain’s prime minister Theresa May’s successor.

Theresa May has formally resigned as Conservative leader, a senior Tory source said.

The apparent triumph of Nigel Farage in the British political sphere has cast a huge shadow over a nation struggling to find its identity, writes Gordon Brown.

Sterling languished just off four-month lows, with the outcome of the European election in the UK seen possibly emboldening proponents of a no-deal Brexit as the battle to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May got under way.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has strongly endorsed Business Minister Heather Humphrey's criticism of Maria Bailey over her 'swing-gate' personal injuries case.

The European elections in England were a triumph for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, which took 32% of the vote. There was real success for the Liberal Democrats and Greens as well, deep disappointment for Labour and the new Change UK party and disaster for the Conservatives.

Early analysis of election results is usually a risky business but even at this stage, as the last do-or-die seats are still in contention, it seems a few headline lessons cannot be ignored.

The monopoly of power has been broken. Europe has found itself at a crossroads as the far right and Greens make substantial gains in European elections, writes Lorne Cook.

The Tánaiste has warned of dangerous times for the European Union and urged the electorate to counter the rise of the Brexit party by voting for pro-European candidates in tomorrow's European elections.

Voters across Europe are about to head to the polls to elect 751 members to the European Parliament from across 28 separate member states, representing more than 512m people.

As voters prepare to cast their ballot in tomorrow's European elections, new analysis of Google search trends has revealed the issues and personalities that have sparked the most interest ahead of polling day.

There are two sleeps left to local and European elections on Friday.

The Government will today discuss the collapse in cross-party Brexit talks in London as well as fresh fears of Britain crashing out of the EU without agreement.

Labour MP Hilary Benn, the chairman of the UK parliament’s Brexit committee, told BBC radio last week that “there are only two ways out of the Brexit crisis that we’ve got: Either parliament agrees a deal or we go back to the British people and ask them to make the choice”.

Sterling steadied after initially posting further large losses on UK political fears but shares in Europe and the US were hit as the fallout of the US-China trade war extended to Chinese champion Huawei and the world’s chip makers for mobile phones.

Britain’s Brexit crisis moves, with each passing week, ever higher up the fiasco index. If it were not so grave for the future of one Europe’s major democracies — and economies — it would be comical.

So that’s Sunday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

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