Valdai Club

The British, according to Ivan Rogers, former permanent representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union, will feel the burden of “Brexiternity”, which will turn into a “Groundhog Day.” Will the Brexit then turn against the Brexiteers themselves?

Johnson’s government will continue to expand its ties with non-EU countries, as well as bilateral relations with EU members in keeping with the Theresa May’s Global Britain strategy.

While the vote on the amendments did not close the Brexit debate, the media reported that the Tory Brexiteer and Remainer MPs reached an agreement known as the “Malthouse compromise” (named after Kit Malthouse).

On July 7, 2018, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced the government decision to negotiate a “soft Brexit,” after which two ministers left the cabinet and the government was on the verge of collapse.

Relations between the European Union and the United Kingdom will take a while to recover, and would at first be an informal number of initiatives, Valdai Club experts believe. Theresa May gave a speech in Florence on Friday, outlining the UK’s goal of a “special relationship” with the European Union.

Problems of security, fight against terrorism and extremism came to the fore after the terrorist attack on the night of 2 to 3 June. The spread of data among sociological agencies has never been so great: at the beginning of June, the Conservative party's advantage over the Labor Party is estimated from1 to 10 points. Still, early in the campaign the Tories were set for a convincing mandate, now, a week before the vote, they can only hope for a marginal victory.

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled out the appeal of Theresa May's government. The so-called "Bremains", supporters of Britain's membership in the EU, are going to give the government the "final and decisive battle." If the House of Lords does not approve the bill, the country is under threat of early parliamentary elections.

The Chilcot Report is not the first document on the Iraq war. Before there were two reports, prepared by parliamentary committees, and also Butler and Hutton reports. So this is the fifth report.

During his visit to London in April, with the referendum on Britain’s EU membership looming on the horizon, US President Barack Obama voiced some serious warnings in the event that Britain does vote to leave the European Union. Above all, he said that Britain would not be able to sign the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade agreement before the EU (with talks set to take 5-10 years). At the same time, he said that Britain’s eventual departure from the EU would not affect the two countries’ cooperation in intelligence and counterterrorism, which never did depend on Britain’s EU membership.