David Gauke is a former Justice Secretary, and was an independent candidate in South-West Hertfordshire at the 2019 general election. The conclusion of the negotiations over a free trade agreement between the UK and the EU has never been inevitable. The economic logic...
Syed Kamall: There may be advantages to No Deal for both the UK and EU
Syed Kamall is the Academic and Research Director at the Institute for Economic Affairs, and was an MEP for London from 2005-2019. As the clock ticks down towards the end of the year, it’s still possible that there may be a No Deal Brexit. Both sides warn that...
Iain Dale: Your Brexit trade talks countdown. Fourteen days left until transition ends fully.
Iain Dale presents the evening show on LBC Radio and the For the Many podcast with Jacqui Smith. As I write my final column of 2020, the Brexit free trade negotiation is still not done. Recent indications were that it will be, although their fate stlll seems swing...
Roderick Crawford: Brexit and trade. What we are and aren’t committed to in order to help bring about a level playing field
Roderick Crawford edited Parliamentary Brief 1992-2012 and currently works in conflict resolution. He is director of If You Are Safe I Am Safe. According to Ursula von der Leyen, addressing MEPs this week, the two key issues remaining are the level playing field and...
Garvan Walshe: This week’s Israel-Morocco deal. A consolation gift for Trump…and a strategic win for China.
Garvan Walshe is a former national and international security policy adviser to the British Conservative Party. He runs TRD Policy Since the Second World War, the revision of frontiers, overriding the wishes both of the people who lived in the territories adjusted and...
The biggest decision has already been taken. We have left the EU. So let’s treat whatever comes next as an opportunity.
The EU is right. If in future it changes its social laws and we don’t change ours; and if then it slaps tariffs on our exports, and raises non-tariff barriers too, this in no way lessens our sovereignty. We do what we like. The EU does what it likes. Brexit...
John Redwood: Why we would be better off with No Deal
Sir John Redwood is MP for Wokingham, and is a former Secretary of State for Wales. No Deal would be a good outcome for the UK. It would mean that we take back control of our borders, our money, our laws and our fish, as promised by the Leave campaign. The deals on...
WATCH: Von der Leyen says that the Brexit talks are to continue
“Despite the fact deadlines have been missed over and over, we both think it is responsible to go the extra mile” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says trade negotiations will continue Latest: https://t.co/vJLY2y3qu1...
WATCH: Martin – “It would be an appalling failure of statecraft” if there is No Deal
#Marr: Would you say that no trade deal between the UK and EU represents a failure of statecraft by both sides? Irish PM Micheal Martin: “I would”#Brexit https://t.co/qvhGW845Bt pic.twitter.com/tKPRBc6Goh — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 13, 2020
WATCH: Raab says the EU has forced the UK’s response
#Marr asks Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab about promises made during the EU referendum campaign 2016 on trade#Brexit https://t.co/qvhGW845Bt pic.twitter.com/3oQO6zx6R2 — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 13, 2020
