Archived GAC Evening Events

LONDON — The government of Britain could need six more months to settle on a plan for negotiating the country’s exit from the European Union and an extra 30,000 civil servants to deal with the complexities of the task, at least according to a memo of uncertain parentage leaked to The Times of London on Tuesday...

SUNDERLAND, England — Among the consequences Britain unleashed in voting to abandon the European Union was making Tom Hurst’s job vastly more challenging...

LONDON — Britain has long been anxious about its “special relationship” with the United States, but after some choice remarks about Donald J. Trump by members of the governing Conservative Party during the presidential campaign, the relationship needs a bit of nurturing. And who better to tend to that, in his own mind at least, than Nigel Farage, the beer-loving commodities-trader-turned-populist-leader of the U.K. Independence Party...

The prime minister says she is hiding her strategy for EU withdrawal. But the growing fear is that she hasn’t got one...

Britain will hold a referendum this Thursday on whether the country will remain in the European Union, or become the first nation to leave it. The nation is split on its vote, and in the run-up to voting day, opinion polls remain close.

The BBC's assistant political editor says the High Court decision to say MPs must give their go-ahead before the formal Article 50 process of leaving the EU is triggered has "thrown an almighty spanner in the works" for Prime Minister Theresa May. Norman Smith was speaking on the BBC News Channel as the verdict was delivered.

Nov. 3 -- George Magnus, UBS senior independent economic adviser, discusses the implications of a U.K. court ruling that prevents Prime Minister Theresa May from unilaterally beginning Britain's exit process from the EU. He speaks with Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Scarlet Fu on "What'd You Miss?"

We are embarrassingly unaware of how divided our societies are, and Brexit grew out of a deep, unexamined divide between those that fear globalization and those that embrace it, says social scientist Alexander Betts. How do we now address that fear as well as growing disillusionment with the political establishment, while refusing to give in to xenophobia and nationalism? Join Betts as he discusses four post-Brexit steps toward a more inclusive world.