David Goodhart is Head of Demography at Policy Exchange and author of The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics. A sense that the country was changing too fast and a desire to reclaim normal national controls over who comes and goes and who, in...
The Deal in Detail 4) The environment and energy
Benedict McAleenan is a Senior Adviser to Policy Exchange’s Energy & Environment Unit. Ed Birkett is a Senior Research Fellow at Policy Exchange. If you listen to much of the anti-Brexit rhetoric, you’d think that the EU was the sole driver of environmental...
Anthony Browne: Post-Brexit Britain. Now we’ve taken back control, here’s what we can do with our new powers.
Anthony Browne is MP for South Cambridgeshire and a former Europe Editor of the Times. When I worked for Boris Johnson during his first term as Mayor of London, I led on devolving powers to City Hall, and went through it with Oliver Letwin, David Cameron’s policy...
The Commons is notified that the Brexit Trade Bill has received Royal Assent
Commons announcement that Brexit trade bill has been given royal assent pic.twitter.com/p2qbFrviPT — John Stevens (@johnestevens) December 31, 2020
WATCH: Cash rings out the ERG’s acceptance of Johnson’s EU deal
https://www.conservativehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Bill-Cash-Deal-Speech-30-12-20.mp4 (Due to the vagaries of the Parliament clip service, please skip to 40s.)
WATCH: May – ‘I will take no lectures’ on the deal from Starmer, who failed to vote for her alternative
https://www.conservativehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Theresa-May-Deal-Speech-30-12-20.mp4
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Johnson beams like a schoolboy who has got his hands on an enormous cake
“A majority is always better than the best repartee.” So said the greatest and wittiest parliamentarian ever to lead the Conservative Party, a statesman who could disguise headlong retreat as triumphant advance: Benjamin Disraeli. Boris Johnson came to the...
WATCH: The choice before the Commons is between this deal and No Deal, says Starmer
“The choice before the House today is perfectly simple” Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says the PM’s Brexit deal has “many flaws”, but not to vote for it would lead the UK to no dealhttps://t.co/rfxQPOLMb2 pic.twitter.com/ELX3ZG3j1T — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews)...
WATCH: The Prime Minister – “We now seize this moment to now forge a fantastic new relationship with our European neighbours”
“We now seize this moment to now forge a fantastic new relationship with our European neighbours based on free trade and friendly co-operation” PM Boris Johnson urges MPs to back his post-Brexit trade deal with the EUhttps://t.co/rfxQPOLMb2 pic.twitter.com/FcwenvY9kj...
The Deal in Detail 2) Economics and regulation
Dr Gerard Lyons is a senior fellow at Policy Exchange and was chief economic advisor to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London. It is not just leaving the EU but what we do when we leave that is key. From January 1, we will have left the EU and distanced ourselves...
