Andrew Adonis

Two years ago, Theresa May pronounced the 29th March 2019 at 11pm as the hour that the UK would leave the EU amid a fanfare of glory. Today we were to wake up to a brave new world of Global Britain, with new trade deals with the United States, China, and better versions of all our existing deals covered by the EU. We were to start spending the ‘Brexit dividend’ on the NHS. And we were to have months of calm and rest before this momentous day because according to our Secretary

The tide is turning and today is the day that we the people reclaim our democracy. We can’t spend month after month dithering and delaying while Brexit continues to explode. We must now march in the biggest numbers that London has ever seen to show MPs that now is the time to assert themselves, to reject May’s threats and jibes and to give back to the people the final say on Brexit. So join me and hundreds of thousands of others at the Put it to the People March at 12pm on Pa

Britain will now no longer leave the European Union on the 29th of March. This week MPs first decisively defeated Theresa May’s deal, then forced the Government’s hand and voted against a no-deal Brexit directly, and then finally voted for an extension to Article 50 on Thursday. Theresa May will probably try one more time to get her deal through, but even if she coughs up a big enough bribe to get the DUP on board it is still almost certainly going to be defeated again, forci

As I argue in my New European column this week, while Brexit has turned into a political version of the Napoleonic Wars, protracted and diffuse, with months, even years, of indecisive engagements, we may be approaching Waterloo. It is now very like that May will lose the ‘second meaningful vote’, and that Parliament will then reject no-deal. What matters then is what length of Article 50 extension is proposed. My solution is a maximum extension period of 21 months, with it po

This week Labour finally officially backed a second Brexit referendum. Emily Thornberry, Keir Starmer, and Tom Watson in particular rose to the level of events by leading the charge, and override initial jitters over whether this meant a referendum without Remain on the ballot paper. But as I argue in my New European column this week, we aren’t in the promised land yet. Corbyn’s support is a crucial step towards a People’s Vote, but it will not be enough on its own to guarant