The president of the European Council has suggested the UK could still decide to reverse Brexit. Donald Tusk said negotiations could end in "no Brexit" if the British government wanted to. "Ahead of us is still the toughest stress test. If we fail it, the negotiations will end in our defeat," he said in a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. "We must keep our unity regardless of the direction of the talks. The EU will be able to rise to every scenario as long as we are not divided."

UK airlines have warned passengers they may not be able to fly after Brexit and that flights could be cancelled without compensation. British airlines are drawing up contingency plans, amid Brexit talks, which could see passengers lose consumer rights held under EU law, including their right to compensation if flights are grounded.

The Conservatives now exist largely to misinform the public, writes comedian and writer Frankie Boyle.

JOHN SHERIDAN STOOD ANKLE DEEP in the lush grass of his farm tracing the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic with his finger across the skyline. “I’m being shoved back into a corner,” he said, following its path in a 270-degree arc. “There’s a young lad there,” he said, waving in the direction of his 22-year-old son, Chris. “He doesn’t remember what it was like when there was a border.”

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What if a new border confirmed the UK’s new reality: Leave and Remain voters live in two different countries. By Rosa Prince.

British people have turned their backs on Brexit, according to a new poll released just as Theresa May prepares to give a make-or-break speech on her plans for EU withdrawal. The exclusive survey for The Independent by BMG Research shows a majority now believe the country should remain in the EU, after weeks in which deadlocked Brussels talks and cabinet splits exposed the sheer complexity of withdrawal.

Around 10,000 finance jobs will be shifted out of Britain or created overseas in the next few years if the UK is denied access to Europe’s single market, according to a Reuters survey of firms employing the bulk of workers in international finance. Frankfurt was by far the most popular destination for the new roles, the survey showed, with Paris a distant second.

People, money, Ireland. By Fintan O’Toole.

Theresa May’s plan to “rig” Parliament to prepare for Brexit was hatched immediately after her general election disaster but kept secret, The Independent has learned.

Thousands of pro-Europe protesters are marching on Parliament in a mass demonstration against Brexit. Organisers predicted around 100,000 protesters would gather in central London's Parliament Square, where they were due to be addressed by Sir Bob Geldof and Liberal Democrat former cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey.

In the early 1800s, a British ambassador took sculptures from the Parthenon back to England. Greece has demanded their return ever since. With Brexit, Greece might finally have the upper hand in the 200-year-old spat.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the U.K. on Saturday that it would have to pay a settlement to leave the EU, denying that the obligation amounted to a “fine.” “This is about obligations that Great Britain has entered into and that naturally must remain on the books,” Merkel said in her weekly podcast published Saturday ahead of the latest round of talks next week, Bloomberg reported. “It’s not about the cost of divorce — that makes it sound like fines. We’re still at the very start of these negotiations.”

The government says it will propose an "innovative and untested approach" to customs checks as part of its Brexit negotiations. The model, one of two being put forward in a newly-published paper, would mean no customs checks at UK-EU borders. The UK's alternative proposal - a more efficient system of border checks - would involve "an increase in administration", it admits.

“Brexit has caused a lot of uncertainty, a lot of confusion,” Emanuel Adam, director of trade and policy at British American Business, says. Last year, the transatlantic network, which represents more than 2,000 companies, asked its members if they thought Britain should leave the EU - 95% said no. Fourteen months after the referendum, they are trying to adjust to an uncomfortable political reality.

Britain's exit from the European Union will be the country's biggest calamity since World War Two, the former chief of staff to Brexit minister David Davis said on Wednesday, calling for a new political movement to oppose the divorce.

Britain would have likely voted to remain in the European Union were its population educated to a slightly higher level, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Leicester say that had just 3 per cent more of the population gone to university, the UK would probably not be leaving the EU. The researchers looked at reasons why people voted Leave and found that whether someone had been to university or accessed other higher education was the “predominant factor” in how they voted.

The UK's Brexit negotiations have not begun well amid "differences" inside the cabinet, a former head of the diplomatic service has said. Sir Simon Fraser, chief mandarin at the Foreign Office until 2015, said the UK side had been "a bit absent" from formal negotiations in Brussels. Sir Simon, who now advises businesses on Brexit, said he was concerned the UK had not put forward a clear position.

A second referendum to decide if the British people wish to plough ahead with Brexit is becoming more likely, says David Cameron’s former politics tutor. The further vote will become a “life raft” for Theresa May and the only solution to her mounting problems over the terms of EU withdrawal, Vernon Bogdanor predicted.

Free movement of people from the European Union will end in March 2019 when Britain leaves the bloc, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said on Monday, after ministers gave a range of conflicting views about the Brexit divorce. Since May lost her parliamentary majority in a June election, divisions between her ministers over Brexit strategy have broken into the open, with an intense public debate in recent days while May has been away on holiday.