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. As usual, the public has reacted to Westminster’s hysterics with an amused shrug. Lawyers and diplomats, pundits and...
Interview: Nigel Biggar says human rights are not enough and the British Empire was good as well as bad
If the BBC wishes to balance its coverage of the culture war, it should invite Nigel Biggar to deliver at least three series of talks on Radio 4. The first would be about his new book, What’s Wrong With Rights?, in which the Regius Professor of Moral and...
James Frayne: Do voters care about breaking international law, and if so, how much?
James Frayne is Director of Public First and author of Meet the People, a guide to moving public opinion. How much of an electoral risk is the Government taking by threatening to break international law? There hasn’t, to my knowledge, been much published polling...
The changes that Cox wants from the Government to the UK Internal Market Bill
ConservativeHome understands that the former Attorney-General, who expressed his reservations about the Bill yesterday in the Times, will support it were the Government to make five concessions. These are concentrated on a guarantee to the Commons that the Government...
Gale and Percy oppose the Bill’s Second Reading. 34 Tory MPs don’t vote.
Only two Conservative votes against the Bill yesterday evening – Roger Gale and Andrew Percy. A paltry number was to be expected, since most of those who oppose the safeguarding provisions, which the Government claims would break international law if applied,...
Ben Bradley: I will not be undertaking unconscious bias training – and call on my colleagues to take the same stand
Ben Bradley is MP for Mansfield. The evidence is growing that many of our institutions are dominated by a metropolitan “groupthink” that is intolerant to any diversity of views, whether it’s the BBC, the British Library or even government departments. The...
Nigel Farage warns PM’s withdrawal agreement “is not the Brexit we fought for”
Advertisements The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that Prime Minister Boris Johnsons withdrawal agreement with the European Union “is not the Brexit we fought for” and claimed MPs who vote for the PMs withdrawal agreement will face a political challenge...
Richard Holden: If Starmer stands – or kneels – for each passing fad, he won’t rebuild trust with working class voters
Richard Holden is MP for North West Durham. Trust by the electorate of a political party boils down to a belief about whether someone feels you represent them, their family and their community at an underlying level. The trust in Labour that had existed for a century...
WATCH: ‘If I see the rule of law being broken in a way that I find unacceptable then of course I will go’
“If I see the rule of law being broken in a way that I find unacceptable then of course I will go,” says Justice Secretary Robert Buckland, about the government’s internal market bill which could breach international law#Marr https://t.co/Qoevttrfze...
WATCH: Labour accuses the Government of ‘unnecessarily inflicting’ a Brexit standoff
‘Argument over Brexit is the last thing the country needs right now’ Shadow NI Secretary @LouHaigh says the government are “unnecessarily inflicting” debate on #Brexit on the country during the #COVID19 pandemic.#Ridge https://t.co/HwxhaaWQWo...
