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Brexit means Brexit

Yes Minister co-creator Jonathan Lynn's take on the British government's attempts to leave the EU 

1 October 2017

  • Theresa May dodges question on Boris Johnson's future – video

    Theresa May insists that the cabinet is united and she will be leader 'for the long term' despite continued moves by Boris Johnson to undermine her authority

31 October 2016

  • Sauce bottles on a cafe table, Looe, Cornwall, UK 2013. Image shot 09/2013. Exact date unknown.<br>DEATKE Sauce bottles on a cafe table, Looe, Cornwall, UK 2013. Image shot 09/2013. Exact date unknown.

    Brexit means Brexit: breakfast doesn't necessarily mean breakfast

    What goes best with a fry-up? Red sauce, brown sauce, or thousands of pages of tangled regulations? Yes Minister’s co-creator imagines how Brexit will leave Britain’s supermarket bosses howling in the aisles

24 October 2016

  • David Davis

    Brexit means Brexit: independence! Sovereignty! Freedom! Recession!

    Look upon our mighty repeal bill and ... despair. Yes Minister’s co-creator sails aboard the royal yacht Brexitica for another week’s imagined cabinet squabbling

17 October 2016

  • (Left to right) international trade secretary Liam Fox, foreign secretary Boris Johnson and Brexit secretary David Davis.

    Brexit means Brexit: the free movement of Japanese car factories

    We don’t want foreigners coming in and out when they like – especially if they take their Nissans with them ... Yes Minister’s co-creator channels the latest cabinet-level squabbling

10 October 2016

  • The UK cannot have membership of the single market without accepting free movement of people.

    Brexit means Brexit: if you have nothing useful to say, say nothing at all

    The art of negotiation means keeping your cards close to your chest – got that, foreign secretary? Yes Minister’s co-creator imagines this week’s cabinet discussions

6 October 2016

  • Martin Kettle

    It’s time to bring submarine May to the surface

    Martin Kettle
    The prime minister is wrong: we do want a running commentary on Brexit. And MPs should work together to ensure we get it

3 October 2016

  • The Conservative Party Conference 2016 - Day One<br>BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 02: British Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech about Brexit on the first day of the Conservative Party Conference 2016 at the ICC Birmingham on October 2, 2016 in Birmingham, England. On the opening day of the annual party conference, British Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed that the deadline for triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will be the end of March 2017. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

    Brexit means Brexit: the sweet, sickly smell of clarity

    Now we know at least one thing Brexit means – someone is going to be reading lots of CVs. Yes Minister’s co-creator imagines this week’s events in the Cabinet Office

2 October 2016

  • Theresa May speaks at the annual Conservative party conference in Birmingham.

    May says workers' rights will be protected as long as she is PM - Politics live

    Rolling coverage of all the day’s developments at the Conservative conference in Birmingham, including Theresa May’s speech on Brexit and her interview with Andrew Marr
  • British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson delivers a speech on the first day of the Conservative party annual conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, central England, on October 2, 2016. Britain's governing Conservative Party meets for its annual conference from Sunday facing questions over how and when it will take the country out of the European Union following the Brexit vote. / AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFFOLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images

    Boris Johnson: Brexit vote was freedom for this country – video

    Boris Johnson tells the 2016 Conservative conference in Birmingham that the vote on June 23rd was a vote for economic and political freedom for the United Kingdom.
  • Chris Riddell 02/10/2016

    The Tory ogre wants results

    Chris Riddell looks ahead to the Conservative party conference

26 September 2016

  • The government may need to employ 10,000 new civil servants to deal with Brexit, at a cost of £5bn.

    Brexit means Brexit: the only thing that has changed is the arithmetic

    In Yes Minister co-creator Jonathan Lynn’s weekly column, the chancellor and the trade minister compare notes

19 September 2016

  • Demonstration against the discrimination of Polish people in London and UK<br>DTWF7B Demonstration against the discrimination of Polish people in London and UK

    Brexit means Brexit: the Polish ambassador fights back

    In Yes Minister co-creator Jonathan Lynn’s weekly column, the foreign secretary gets a dressing down from an esteemed guest

12 September 2016

  • Brexit means sovereignty ... but not the sovereignty to refuse Brexit.

    Brexit means Brexit: the problem of the people’s will

    In Yes Minister co-creator Jonathan Lynn’s new weekly column, two ministers on either side of the referendum are overheard debating ‘different kinds of democracy’

7 September 2016

  • Theresa May and cabinet meets at Chequers

    Brexit means Brexit: the prime minister tells it straight (to camera)

    In the first of a new weekly column, Yes Minister co-creator Jonathan Lynn imagines what the cabinet conversation may really have sounded like at Chequers
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