This year marks the centenary of the foundation of Northern Ireland in 1921. It would probably come as something of a surprise to some of its architects, if they returned to Earth today, to learn that it lasted this long. Ministers have reportedly set aside £3 million...
Daniel Hannan: Britain is utterly skint. We must use our post-EU freedom to grow ourselves out of this mess.
Daniel Hannan is a writer and columnist. He was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020, and is now President of the Initiative for Free Trade. Remainers were right after all. Almost every catastrophe they predicted has come about. Our economy has collapsed, unemployment...
Dan Boucher: Welsh Labour has been given twenty-four years to transform the economy – and failed
Dr Dan Boucher is a former Assembly and UK Parliamentary candidate. He lives with his family in Swansea. The British political party that has enjoyed the longest period in government in modern times is Welsh Labour. Indeed, given that prior to devolution they governed...
Tony Blair said he would have backed the PM’s post-Brexit trade deal in Parliament
Advertisements The arch Remainer and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that he would have backed Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit trade deal in Parliament. Blair has confirmed that he would have followed the Labour party whip and voted for the deal last...
Johnson’s position is stronger than it looks
Boris Johnson pointed to a way out of this new lockdown at the same time as leading us all into it. The “realistic expectation” is that everyone who is clinically vulnerable; all people over the age of 70; frontline health and social care workers and...
Ted Christie-Miller: Everything must change if Britain is to hit its Net Zero target. How are we going to manage it?
Ted Christie-Miller is a Senior Researcher at Onward and is leading the Getting to zero research programme. The existential necessity of reducing our carbon emissions, and the level of cross-party consensus in Westminster, can sometimes obscure how hard it is going to...
WATCH: Foster – “It’s my job to mitigate against” a border in Irish Sea
#Marr: Do you accept that there is a border in the Irish Sea? First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster: “It’s my job to mitigate against that”#Brexit https://t.co/IwRMAEK8Qk pic.twitter.com/louSMbELlD — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 3, 2021
The Deal in Detail 7) Health
Robert Ede is a Senior Research Fellow in Health and Social Care at Policy Exchange. In April 2016, the UK Government sent every household in the UK a leaflet entitled: Why the Government believes that voting to remain in the European Union is the best decision for...
The Deal in Detail 6): Law and Constitution
Richard Ekins is Head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project and Professor of Law and Constitutional Government in the University of Oxford. In his foreword to the Government’s explanation of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the Prime Minister says “the...
In 2021 the Union is in danger, but there is a way to ridicule and defeat the Nats
On Wednesday, Ian Blackford enlivened the start of the debate on the European Union (Future Relationship) Bill by insisting on a superfluous division and raising several spurious points of order. The duty of the Opposition is to oppose, and as parliamentary leader of...
