Electronics giant Sony is planning to merge its UK-headquartered European business into its Dutch arm as Japanese companies manoeuvre to soften the impact of a no-deal Brexit. The move will see Sony’s £3.3bn European business register its corporate seat, effectively its legal headquarters, in Amsterdam. The combined arm will be responsible for the Tokyo giant’s electronics business in Europe. The deal will be completed on March 29 2019, according to merger documents reviewed by The Daily Telegraph.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is skipping this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday the European Union must come up with an alternative to her Brexit proposals, noting that talks had reached an impasse after bloc leaders had rejected her plans without explaining why. "It's not acceptable to simply reject the other side's proposals without a detailed explanation and counter proposals," May said in a televised statement.

While Britain braces for its exit from the EU in March 2019, HSBC announced on Monday that seven of its Europe-focused offices will move from London to Paris early next year.

Brexit campaign group Vote Leave has been fined £61,000 and referred to the police after an Electoral Commission probe said it broke electoral law. The watchdog said it exceeded its £7m spending limit by funnelling £675,315 through pro-Brexit youth group BeLeave. The founder of BeLeave, Darren Grimes, has been fined £20,000 and referred to the police, along with Vote Leave official David Halsall.

Donald Trump’s UK visit is causing “mayhem” for British police with security operations costing millions of pounds, MPs have said. Thousands of officers are being moved around the country to guard areas where the US president will make an appearance, as colleagues in their home forces have shifts extended and leave cancelled to cover their absence. Louise Haigh, Labour’s shadow policing minister, accused the government of providing “no guarantee that the additional costs required will be fully met”.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t his long history of diplomatic gaffes that brought down the U.K. foreign secretary.

Theresa May sparked a huge row when she blamed local councils for the collapse of bus services – despite her own government slashing their budgets in half. The prime minister also claimed that routes were disappearing because “working habits are changing”, again rejecting any responsibility for the crisis. The controversy was raised in the Commons after the Campaign for Better Transport pleaded with ministers to step in – after 188 services were cut in the last year alone.

An anti-Brexit campaign group says dozens of MPs have backed its plan to force a second referendum that could stop Britain leaving the EU. Best for Britain said it had secured the backing of around 40 Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green Party MPs for a “people’s vote”. The group is calling on the government to give the public the final say on the Brexit deal Theresa May hopes to negotiate with the EU.

Hopes are high for some good news inside the government as the Brexit proposals to the EU were nominated as the best Young Adult Fantasy for the prestigious Hugo Award. The Brexiteer Chronicles, a long saga focusing on a group of unlikely rebels fighting an evil entity hell bent on conquest, has captured the imagination of many devotees of the genre.

Workers in England and Wales need to fork out almost eight times their annual income in order to buy an average house, according to the latest official estimates, underlining how unaffordable house purchasing has become for many. The Office for National Statistics reported on Thursday that average house in 2017 rose 4.5 per cent to £225,000.

Japan is more focused on a securing major trade deal with the European Union than pursuing an agreement with a post-Brexit Britain, a senior minister has said. Shinichi Iida, minister for public diplomacy and media, said his country's "first and foremost priority" was rubber-stamping its historic trade agreement with Brussels – the largest the EU has ever signed – before work could begin on establishing lucrative free trade deals with the UK.

Companies in Britain and the European Union face an extra 58 billion pounds ($80 billion) in annual costs if there is a no-deal Brexit, with Britain’s vast financial sector set to be the worst-hit industry, according to a report on Monday. Firms across the EU’s 27 countries other than Britain will have to pay 31 billion pounds a year in tariff and non-tariff barriers if Britain leaves the bloc without a deal, the report by Oliver Wyman management consultants and law firm Clifford Chance said.

Fast-food chain KFC said on Monday it had been forced to close hundreds of its British stores because of a shortage of chicken. As Sonia Legg reports, the problem arose after the chain switched its delivery contract to DHL, forcing the majority of...

Even the worst Brexit will be nothing like the catastrophe of the Hundred Years War

The government said it would not oppose a Labour motion calling for the release of a leaked Brexit analysis which showed that the economy would be significantly worse off in every modelled scenario. The announcement paves the way for the documents to be published. Speaking of the decision to release the reports, the junior Brexit minister Robin Walker said elements would be redacted if they could affect negotiations with the EU, and only MPs would be able see the studies in a confidential reading room.

One of the biggest advocates of a hard Brexit has obtained a Maltese passport, the Financial Times reported. New Zealand-born billionaire Christopher Chandler is behind Legatum, the London based think-tank that emerged as one of the most vocal advocates for Britain’s departure from the single...

Brexiteer Nigel Farage has said that he actually doesn’t want a second Brexit referendum but fears that the UK may be forced to vote again, referencing Ireland’s second vote on the Lisbon Treaty. Farage was interviewed on TV3′s Tonight Show last night and his referendum comments were in stark contrast to those he made on Twitter last week, where he suggested that a second Brexit referendum should be held.