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  • Monday, 14 September, 2020
    Brexit
    Boris Johnson suffers rebellion over contentious Brexit bill

    PM secures vote but senior Tories come out against internal market legislation that threatens international law

  • Friday, 17 July, 2020
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    Geoffrey Cox met fixer in SFO scandal while attorney-general

    Private investigator representing fraud suspects had access to top legal levels

  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2020
    UK politics & policy
    UK attorney-general backs calls to curb judges’ powers

    Geoffrey Cox suggests parliamentary hearings for Supreme Court nominees

  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2019
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    Cox accused of blocking Saudi corruption probe

    Campaigners express concern to attorney-general at delays to SFO probe of defence contractor GPT

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2019
    UK politics & policy
    Johnson lays ground for ‘people vs parliament’ election

    PM unrepentant as bitter debate turns to threats to MPs

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2019
    Robert Shrimsley
     Johnson comes out fighting but Commons mood turns ugly

    MPs return after unlawful prorogation, but what they can now do may be limited

  • Sunday, 23 June, 2019
    Brexit
    Cox disputes Johnson’s no-deal tariff claim

    Attorney-general says UK would struggle to maintain existing EU arrangements

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
    Brexit
    MPs approve bill to force May to seek Brexit delay

    Measure passes by single vote as PM and Corbyn begin talks on future ties with EU

  • Thursday, 14 March, 2019
    Brexit
    UK warned against using Vienna Convention on Brexit

    Article 62 move on withdrawal agreement an ‘utterly hopeless’ endeavour, says QC

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  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
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    Eurosceptics read last rites over Brexit deal

    After hopes buoyed by Strasbourg talks, attorney-general’s advice deals funereal blow

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
    Brexit
    Theresa May heads for defeat on revised Brexit deal

    Eurosceptic MPs seize on UK attorney-general’s admission over Irish backstop  

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
    David Allen Green
    Geoffrey Cox chooses law over politics

    He had no choice but to rule that nothing has changed with the Brexit backstop

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
    Brexit
    Game over?

    The crucial voices now will be DUP and 100-plus members of Conservative party’s ERG

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
    UK politics & policy2 min
    Geoffrey Cox says Brexit backstop legal risks remain

    Attorney-general highlights risk of UK being trapped in Irish backstop after EU divorce

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
    Brexit
    May agrees revised Brexit deal with Juncker

    ‘Now is the time to come together,’ says PM, hoping new assurances will win over critics 

  • Monday, 11 March, 2019
    Brexit
    May departs on a wing and a prayer to break Brexit deadlock

    Hours after quoting St Paul in Westminster Abbey, PM is on road to Brussels

  • Thursday, 7 March, 2019
    Brexit
    May’s authority on the line as Brexit vote defeat looms

    PM tells EU it has choice to make too as she pins hope on last-minute concessions

  • Thursday, 7 March, 2019
    Brexit
    ‘Man on the Clapham omnibus’ rides in to Brexit talks

    EU negotiators bewildered as attorney-general Cox turns to Victorian-era measure of ‘reasonableness’

  • Thursday, 7 March, 2019
    Law
    Tommy Robinson to face fresh contempt of court charge

    Attorney-general says there are strong grounds to bring fresh proceedings

  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2019
    Brexit
    Impasse raises fears May is losing control of Brexit

    Cox returns from testing Brussels talks that open prospect of fresh Commons rout

  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2019
    Brexit
    Cox admits no breakthrough in search for revised Brexit deal

    UK attorney-general returns after ‘robust’ talks in Brussels

  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2019
    Brexit
    Tory Eurosceptics handed ultimatum on May Brexit deal

    Back PM in Commons or face being forced to stay in customs union, chief whip warns

  • Monday, 4 March, 2019
    Brexit
    UK attorney-general in last-ditch bid to end backstop impasse

    Big gap remains between EU and Britain as Geoffrey Cox tries to keep PM’s deal alive

  • Monday, 4 March, 2019
    Robert Shrimsley
    Brexiters are refusing to accept their victory

    Hardliners now pose the biggest threat to the UK leaving the EU

  • Monday, 4 March, 2019
    Brexit
    Attorney-general seeks revised Brexit deal to avoid permanent backstop
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