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One day in 1986, Caroline Lucas went looking for the Green party headquarters, finding them in a shoe box on Clapham High Street in south London, and immediately signed up as a member.Thirty-seven years later, Lucas has announced she will stand down at the next election as the party's only MP after decades as its highest-profile member.

Brexit has caused a decline in business investment which is costing the average UK household around 1,000, a leading Bank of England official has warned.Jonathan Haskell, an external member of the central bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), said investment had been stopped in its tracks by the decision to leave the EU.

Home secretary Suella Braverman's crazy rhetoric on immigration is fuelling racism and normalising the politics of Nigel Farage, an outgoing senior Home Office aide has alleged.Nimco Ali, a campaigner against female genital mutilation (FGM) who moved to Britain from Somalia as a child refugee, was appointed as an adviser on tackling violence against women by home secretary Priti Patel in October 2020.

Brexit isn't working.You know it, I know it, and so do a third of leavers, according to recent polling.Yet still the leaders of both Britain's major parties can't quite bring themselves to say it.Rishi Sunak couldn't retreat fast enough from reports that he might be pondering a Swiss-style relationship with the EU.

Germany is experiencing a surge in investment from foreign companies, with a boom in British firms setting up in the EU country after Brexit.Big UK companies seeking a foothold in the single market to ease the red tape burden helped Germany reach its highest-ever level of foreign direct investment (FDI) last year.

Brexit regret among Leave voters has reached a record high, a new poll has found.Seven years on from the UK's decision to leave the European Union, more voters than ever believe Brexit has been a failure.The YouGov poll found more than a third of those who backed Leave in the referendum say Brexit has been more of a failure than a success.

Former US president Donald Trump is expected to follow President Joe Biden, his successor at the White House, by visiting Ireland on Wednesday.Preparations were underway and security increased on Tuesday at Trump International Golf Links and Hotel just outside the town of Doonbeg in Co Clare, although staff remained tight-lipped about the proposed visit.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Rishi Sunak has insisted he is focused on the benefits of Brexit after it emerged senior minister Michael Gove attended a summit addressing the EU withdrawal's failings.

Rishi Sunak has rejected any move to rebuild damaged trade with the EU that would undermine the UK's freedoms, insisting Brexit is delivering for the country.Speaking to the CBI conference, the prime minister was asked how he would deliver on the chancellor's claim that the vast majority of barriers  blamed for a 15 per cent plunge in trade  can be removed.

Sign up for the Week in Patriarchy, a newsletter on feminism and sexism sent every Saturday The woke agenda spares no one, not even God.The revelation that the Church of England is considering gender-neutral ways to refer to God has caused quite a ruckus this week; very predictably all the usual suspects have been foaming at the mouth about wokeness gone mad.

Former Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg is joining GB News to host his own show.The Tory MP for North East Somerset is the latest signing to the channel, which launched in June 2021 and has attracted names to its roster including Nigel Farage and Eamonn Holmes.His show will debate the hot topics of the day and feature guests from across the political spectrum, according to the broadcaster.

The immigration minister has declined to repeat Suella Braverman's claim of an invasion of asylum seekers across the Channel, after fierce criticism of her inflammatory language.The scandal-hit home secretary has been accused of putting lives at risk with the rhetoric of the far-right  immediately echoed by Nigel Farage  one day after the firebombing of a refugee centre in Dover Robert Jenrick was asked if he would use the word invasion, but replied: In a job like mine, you have to choose your words very carefully I would never demonise people coming to this country in pursuit of a better life and I understand and appreciate our obligation to refugees.