Rachel Reeves blames ‘chaotic departure’ from EU and Liz Truss for weak economy
Rachel Reeves will blame Brexit and “turmoil” under Liz Truss for landing Britain with a “weak” economy in a speech to representatives in Davos today. In a breakfast meeting hosted by the US investment bank JP Morgan, the shadow chancellor will vow to restore Britain’s reputation as a place to do business, declaring that boosting […]
Hunt’s post-Brexit regulatory reforms are ‘unconvincing’ and a ‘damp squib’, say MPs
The chancellor’s raft of financial services reforms are “unconvincing”, a cross-party group of MPs has said. The Treasury select committee, chaired by Conservative MP Harriett Baldwin, has said that none of Jeremy Hunt’s so-called Edinburgh reforms implemented so far “will make a substantial difference to the UK economy”. It comes after the chancellor unveiled plans […]
‘Hard man of Brexit’ Steve Baker regrets EU referendum did not require Leave win ‘supermajority’ of 60 per cent
The leading “Leave” campaigner was a prominent voice the 2016 referendum, which saw the voting public back ending EU membership by 52 per to 48 per cent.
The pro-EU ‘rejoin’ movement should not risk repeating the same mistakes as its Brexiteer opponents
Brexit has been a failure. You know it. I know it. Nigel Farage, God love him, knows it. You’ll find very few people around these days who are happy with how our departure from the European Union has turned out, whether they voted for it or not. Quite a lot of people think we should […]
The success of the National Rejoin March shows the electors aren’t buying Brexit
The British political establishment is not interested in taking the UK back into the European Union. Rishi Sunak thinks Brexit is going swimmingly; Keir Starmer think Brexit can and should be made to work better; and Ed Davey thinks rejoining the EU is “off the table.” According to consistent opinion polling, millions of British voters […]
Former BoE governor suggests Brexiteers have ‘basic misunderstanding of what drives economies’
In a scathing attack on Liz Truss and her economic vision, former Bank of England governor Mark Carney accused the former PM of turning Britain into “Argentina on the Channel”. Carney also suggested that Brexiteers, whom the former Conservative leader claimed to champion during her short tenure as PM, had a “basic misunderstanding of what […]
Post-Brexit arrangements in NI to form ‘critical component’ of Sunak-Biden meeting
In the next few hours, Joe Biden will arrive at No 10 for his sixth official meeting with Rishi Sunak. The US president touched down at Stansted Airport on Sunday evening before being taken by helicopter to the residence of the US ambassador in central London. Mr Biden’s stopover in Britain comes ahead of a […]
Four in 10 voters think Labour wants to take UK back into EU
Four in 10 voters think the Labour party’s Brexit policy is to rejoin the European Union, according to a new poll. A Redfield & Wilton Strategies poll found that 41 per cent of those surveyed believe Labour wants to take the UK back into the bloc. The numbers, collected in a survey conducted on June […]
Brexit looms large as Britain considers Covid legacy
As Britain left the EU, Covid entered the UK. On January 29th 2020, the UK’s first patients tested positive for Coronavirus when two Chinese nationals from the same family staying at a hotel in York fell ill. Britain left the EU two days later at 11pm on 31 January and Brexiteers poured into parliament square […]
How likely is a Nigel Farage-Boris Johnson alliance ‘to defend Brexit’?
The Boris Johnson psychodrama has developed in phases. From the three “Ps” — “Patersongate”, “Partygate” and the “Pincher affair” — which preceded the former PM’s defenestration last summer; to the botched rebellion over the Windsor Framework; and now his resignation as an MP, prompted by a letter from the privileges committee trailing its damning report […]
