As we explained at the beginning of the year, having just sent out the 1,085th and final BrexitCentral daily email following our formal departure from the EU last night, this is the final post on the website. Since September 2016 we’ve published more than 2,000 posts from more than 500 different authors and, on behalf of the entire BrexitCentral team, I’d like to thank every single one of them for helping inform discussion and debate about a whole range of matters relating to Brexit these last three and a half years. I can’t name every single one (you can see the full list for yourself here) b ..read more

It all began for BrexitCentral back in September 2016, less than twelve weeks after the June 2016 referendum at which more people voted for the UK to leave the EU than have ever voted for anyone or anything in British electoral history. And it began on a consensual note, with prominent Remain campaigner and Tory MP Nick Boles writing the first ever piece for the site by an external author – one of more than 500 to have done so in the ensuing years. Despite the fact that he later left the Conservative Party over its Brexit stance (and voted Green at the 2019 General Election), he wrote back the ..read more

Here is the latest in our series reflecting on the Brexit process with regular BrexitCentral authors and others who have played an important role in our journey out of the European Union. Here are the answers to our questions from Matthew Elliott, our Editor-at-Large, who was of course Chief Executive of the Vote Leave campaign. BC: When did you first come to the view that the UK would be better off out of the EU? Did you ever think that the EU could be reformed from within to make membership tolerable for the UK? Tell us how your views developed over time on the issue. At the risk of opening ..read more

Here is the latest in our series reflecting on the Brexit process with regular BrexitCentral authors and others who have played an important role in our journey out of the European Union. Here are the answers to our questions from Jacob Rees-Mogg, an enthusiastic Brexiteer and now Leader of the House of  Commons. BC: When did you first come to the view that the UK would be better off out of the EU? Did you ever think that the EU could be reformed from within to make membership tolerable for the UK? Tell us how your views developed over time on the issue. I cannot remember a time when I was ent ..read more

We are so nearly there. After three long years, in which increasingly exasperated ordinary voters were pitted against the massed ranks of an establishment which seemed desperate to lock the UK into the EU, Britain is finally leaving. It is a testament to our fellow citizens’ indomitable spirit and the determination of the ‘little guy’ not to be bullied. Tonight will truly be an historic night. The key, now, is that we seize the myriad of opportunities which await us now we are free of EU institutions, regulations and bureaucracy and a political class which seemed unable to break free of its EU ..read more

Since we announced our intention to go out on a high at the end of January, many BrexitCentral readers have been very kind in saying how much they will miss our daily round-ups of Brexit news and comment. They have often supplemented the compliment by asking how best to stay informed as the trade talks with the EU commence and we move to a completely different phase of thinking about what to do with the freedoms we have recovered from Brussels. What follows is a selection of websites, campaign groups and think-tanks which we would suggest are worth keeping an eye on – and signing up for their ..read more

Here is the latest in our series reflecting on the Brexit process with regular BrexitCentral authors and others who have played an important role in our journey out of the European Union. Here are the answers to our questions from veteran eurosceptic Sir Bill Cash, a Conservative MP since 1984 who has chaired the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee since 2010. BC: When did you first come to the view that the UK would be better off out of the EU? Did you ever think that the EU could be reformed from within to make membership tolerable for the UK? Tell us how your views developed over t ..read more

Here is the latest in our series reflecting on the Brexit process with regular BrexitCentral authors and others who have played an important role in our journey out of the European Union. Here are the answers to our questions from Patrick O’Flynn, who as a Daily Express journalist was instrumental in getting his paper to back UK withdrawal from the EU and later became a UKIP MEP. BC: When did you first come to the view that the UK would be better off out of the EU? Did you ever think that the EU could be reformed from within to make membership tolerable for the UK? Tell us how your views devel ..read more

As the Grauniad comes out edged in black, I’ll be celebrating Brexit day with a quiet pint of milk from non-farting Yorkshire cows. We should make it a genuinely national celebration by a magnanimous gesture to those who’ve buggered us around for the last three years: why not give a pound bag of Brussels sprouts to all the Euroflag wavers as they hand in their redundant flags? No need to reward the senior fifth column. They’re sure to get a plastic medal allowing free access to every pay toilet in Europe… Celebration is justified. But don’t think the battle is over. The goal of a fair break to ..read more

As we explained at the beginning of the year, having just sent out the 1,085th and final BrexitCentral daily email following our formal departure from the EU last night, this is the final post on the website. Since September 2016 we’ve published more than 2,000 posts from more than 500 different authors and, on behalf of the entire BrexitCentral team, I’d like to thank every single one of them for helping inform discussion and debate about a whole range of matters relating to Brexit these last three and a half years. I can’t name every single one (you can see the full list for yourself here) b ..read more