Behind the rhetorical flourishes, Britain and the EU are gearing up for a major tussle over a post-Brexit trade deal. Matt Honeycombe-Foster digs into the detail

Boris Johnson has accused Donald Trump of “letting the air out of the tyres of the world economy” by entering into a trade war with China.

European fishing boats must have access to UK waters in return for a comprehensive free trade agreement with Brussels, Michel Barnier has declared.

Nissan will pull out of mainland Europe and instead focus on its UK plant if Brexit leads to tariffs on car exports, it has been reported.

Boris Johnson will today set himself on a fresh collision course with Brussels by insisting the UK will not accept EU rules as the price of a tariff-free trade deal.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has hit out at Donald Tusk over his supportive comments towards Scottish independence, branding them "un-European" and "irresponsible".

Leo Varadkar has urged Boris Johnson to "tone down the nationalistic rhetoric" as the Prime Minister prepares to make a speech calling for "no alignment" with the European Union after Brexit.

Boris Johnson will declare that he wants "no alignment" between Britain and the European Union in a post-Brexit trade deal.

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has praised the "strength of our unrivalled ties" he defended his "tough" approach to Brexit negotiations.

Boris Johnson said Britain had "taken back the tools of self-government" as Britain formally left the European Union after years of political drama.

With the UK on the way out of the European Union, you might expect Steve Baker to be feeling triumphant. Instead, the Brexiteer feels a degree of “melancholy” at the events of the past three years. Sebastian Whale talks to colleagues past and present about the Wycombe MP; the reluctant ‘Brexit hardman’ who played a crucial role in marshalling Eurosceptics in parliament. Photography by Baldo Sciacca

Dods Monitoring's EU team consider what the EU wants from the Brexit negotiations. 

Leaving the EU was avoidable - Corbyn failed to stand up on this crucial issue from a values-based position, writes Neil Coyle MP. 

The EU needs to recognise the mutual advantage of coming to a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with a friendly neighbour, says Owen Paterson MP.

10 months on from the date the UK was meant to leave the EU, the UK will leave the European Union after almost 50 years of membership tonight at 23:00 GMT. Dods Monitoring's Laura Hutchinson considers the next steps. 

The same patriotic optimism that led the UK into the European Union must now be applied to what comes next, says Labour MP Peter Kyle.

As we leave the EU, we now have the opportunity to reflect on what has been working well in our political system – and change the things that have not, argues Gisela Stuart

The UK will officially exit the European Union at 11pm on Friday night, more than three and half years since the public voted to leave, so how did we finally get here?

As Britain leaves the EU, lifelong europhile Lord Heseltine reflects on the challenges ahead

Brexit will herald "the dawn of a new era" which will spread opportunity across the UK, according to Boris Johnson.

For Remain campaigners, the evening of 12 December proved devastating. Months if not years of work to preserve Britain’s membership of the European Union had gone up in smoke. How do they plan to pick up the pieces? Sebastian Whale reports 

Stephen Barclay is set to receive a £17,000 golden goodbye as the Brexit department begins to wind down ahead of the UK's exit from the European Union.

Britain's departure from the EU has cleared its final hurdle after MEPs backed the Brexit deal struck between Boris Johnson and Brussels.

A new law scrapping the automatic right of European boats to fish in British waters is being introduced by the Government.