Topic: Brexit

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A Brexit reversal is on the table 10 years on from the vote that changed Britain. Here’s what’s at stake

Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016.

2 Oct 2026, 05:26 UTC

Migration deal: 'Really a scheme around political diplomacy between UK & France in post-Brexit era'

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Parvati Nair, Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She sees the UK-France migration agreement as a small but revealing element of a much wider post-Brexit relationship, in which questions of migration are intertwined with diplomacy, security, intelligence and surveillance. She warns that the scheme risks trivialising a complex human plight it into deterrence and a numbers game. She argues humans have always moved, and migration can profoundly enrich societies. The challenge is to build systems that recogni

1 Oct 2026, 23:31 UTC

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UK, France end 'on in, one out' Channel migrant exchange deal

A year-old deal between France and Britain to return migrants crossing the Channel illegally on small boats has come to an end, the UK interior ministry said Wednesday. The deal was agreed under former UK prime minister Keir Starmer last year in a bid to help a post-Brexit reset by easing what had become a major source of tension between the neighbours.

1 Oct 2026, 14:22 UTC

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Burnham reopens Brexit debate: EU says UK must chart Its own path on future relations

The EU said Wednesday it was up to London to chart a way forward for Britain's relations with the bloc, after Prime Minister Andy Burnham put the idea of rejoining on the table. Burnham reopened the divisive Brexit debate Wednesday by saying his centre-left Labour government could go "all the way" and propose membership of the bloc, once it has weighed the "pros and cons" of different possible relationships with Europe. For the European perspective, FRANCE 24's Dave Keating reports from Brussels.

1 Oct 2026, 10:18 UTC

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UK PM Burnham reopens divisive debate on rejoining EU

Andy Burnham put the idea of Britain rejoining the EU on the table on Wednesday, breaking a taboo for a UK prime minister and reopening the divisive Brexit debate. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Monte Francis, Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Law at the University of Cambridge, says that Burnham "is sending the message that actually it's been pretty cold being on the outside of the EU so we're now looking at the alternatives".

30 Sept 2026, 21:05 UTC