“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...
Best and worst Government moment: the Brexit trade deal and Cummings’ road trip to Barnard Castle, respectively
With a resounding 50.34 per cent of the vote, the Brexit Trade Deal wins our panelists’ choice for “best Government moment” in our end of year survey. After a long year of negotiations, and what looked like the UK edging towards No Deal at many...
A Brexit trade deal that takes back control
Brexit is indeed a film, a developing tale over time, not a photo – a state of affairs that will be the same in year ten as it was on day one. So a question that arises about the trade deal which the UK and EU have agreed is whether that story is set to be what...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: Now we will have what the British people really wanted – tariff and quota-free trade with the EU
Jacob Rees-Mogg is Leader of the House of Commons, and is MP for North East Somerset. The real surprise and significance of the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union is its normality. It is not in itself the reclamation of sovereignty, which happened in January...
European Research Group pushes for a Brexit debate in the Commons and not via Zoom
Advertisements Conservative Brexiteers have reportedly requested for a guarantee that they will be able to speak in the Commons and not via a internet call for the “historic” post-Brexit deal between the United Kingdom and European Union. Speaker of the House of...
Richard Ritchie: Why I believe that Enoch Powell would have supported this Brexit trade deal
Richard Ritchie is Enoch Powell’s archivist and is a former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate. He was BP’s director of UK Political Affairs. During the twelve days of Christmas, people like to play games in order to pass the time. One such game this year, for...
Stanley Johnson: Next year’s climate change conference should take its lead on carbon pricing from this Agreement
Stanley Johnson is an environmentalist, author, former Conservative MEP and parliamentary candidate. His new novel, The Warming, will be published next year. With fellow environmentalists Bill Oddie, Baroness Young and Laura Sandys, I was a founder-member of a...
Stephen Booth: This Agreement delivers both the UK and the EU’s main objectives. It gives us freedom – which comes at a price.
Stephen Booth is Head of the Britain in the World Project at Policy Exchange. Much of the analysis of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement will flow from underlying prejudices. “The UK shouldn’t have left”, “we don’t need a trade deal with the EU”, “the UK should...
Nigel Farage slams PM over ‘betraying’ fishermen but backs the Post-Brexit deal
Advertisements The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has thrown his support behind Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Post-Brexit deal with the European Union, however Mr Farage did say the PM had “betrayed our fishermen” with European access to British waters. In an...
