Helen Lewis

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Protest signs and stickers left outside the Cabinet Office in London last month during a march calling for a "people’s vote" on the final Brexit deal. Credit Niklas Halle'N/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The selection of a new pope is traditionally announced by white smoke drifting from the Vatican chimney. The news of a draft agreement for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union trickled out in a more modern manner: a volley of tweets.

A long waiting period is over. It is now almost 20 months since the British government notified the European Union that it wanted to leave the bloc. It is scheduled to do so on March 29.

The last year and a half has seen British politicians trying to figure out what, exactly, Brexit means. Finally, after months of negotiation, a draft deal has arrived.…  Seguir leyendo »

A cab in central London. Toby Melville/Reuters

When Sadiq Khan, the Labour mayor of London, stands in front of the annual gathering of his party’s activists next week, he can be confident that his speech will have at least one applause line: He is the politician who took on Uber.

On Friday morning, Transport for London, the not-for-profit company that runs and regulates transport in the capital, made the surprise announcement that Uber, the company that likes to call itself a “ridesharing app,” would not have its license to operate in London renewed on Sept. 30.

Mr. Khan immediately released a statement supporting the decision, saying that all London businesses needed to “play by the rules.”…  Seguir leyendo »

Brexit means Brexit, and we’re going to make a success of it,” Theresa May said on Monday, when she became the new leader of the Conservative Party — and therefore Britain’s new prime minister. It was the one discordant note in an otherwise clear, wide-ranging speech.

So Brexit means Brexit. But what does that mean? In the June 23 referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union, 52 percent of voters expressed a desire to leave, having been given precious few details of what exactly that entailed or how it might be achieved. Some 48 percent voted not to leave at all.…  Seguir leyendo »