Mark Harper is a former Chief Whip, and MP for the Forest of Dean. We now have two candidates left in the Conservative Party leadership contest, and I am sorry to disappoint – but I will not be disclosing which I am going to back, although whoever wins will have...

Varadkar: Irish economy could “contract” in no-deal Brexit
Republic of Ireland Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar has warned the Irish economy could potentially face a recession in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Latest stories direct in your inbox Sign up for the free Red Alert email: Speaking at the National Economic Dialogue in Dublin...
Henry Newman: The Alternative Arrangements Commission offers the best route through the backstop problem
Henry Newman is Director of Open Europe. It’s now three years and a day since the referendum was declared for Leave on the morning of 24th June 2016. And yet Brexit seems – if anything – further away than it has for some time. The Conservative leadership...
The GATT XXIV plan – and why Brexiteers should pay the EU the compliment of taking its negotiating stance seriously.
That the EU is a political project, and that ideology must therefore trump pragmatism, is a cornerstone of Eurosceptic belief. It was this view that, according to Lord Ashcroft’s research, drove the EU referendum result. The main reason why the British people...
Alexander Temerko: Without a softer Brexit, the Conservatives will be destroyed. Who can best deliver it – Hunt or Johnson?
Alexander Temerko is an industrialist and a Conservative Party donor and activist. As Jeremy Hunt has rightly said, Britain is facing a constitutional crisis. A No Deal Brexit does not command Parliamentary support and will trigger an election – risking a Labour...

Exclusive — Ret. Gen. Robert Spalding: China’s Goal Is to ‘Bankrupt’ and ‘Distract’ U.S. with ‘Endless’ Middle East Wars
“They want us to bankrupt ourselves, that’s the goal,” said Ret. Gen. Robert Spalding, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, of China’s plan to usurp America’s global position as the leading superpower, offering his analysis in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s...

Germany Sees Thirty Anti-Christian Attacks in Two Months
According to a new report from a watchdog on anti-Christian incidents, between April and June Germany saw thirty anti-Christian attacks ranging from thefts to arsons. The data was compiled by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in...

Opposition Day Brexit motion. The ten Tory MPs who voted with Labour. The eight Labour MPs who voted with the Tories.
The ten Conservative MPs who voted with Labour were: Guto Bebb. Ken Clarke. Jonathan Djanogly. Justine Greening. Dominic Grieve. Sam Gyimah. Phillip Lee. Oliver Letwin. Antoinette Sandbach. Caroline Spelman. – – – Kevin Barron. Ronnie Campbell. Jim...
Corbyn will win if today’s Commons motion is passed. And Tory leadership candidates know it.
According to Dominic Walsh of Open Europe, who yesterday looked forward to today’s vote in detail, the most frequent Conservative rebels on the Remain-leaning side of the Parliamentary Party are as follows: Guto Bebb, Ken Clarke, Justine Greening, Dominic...
Michael Gove: I have shown in government that I deliver. And as Prime Minister, I will deliver Brexit – and stop Corbyn.
Michael Gove is Environment Secretary and is MP for Surrey Heath. To be Conservative is to believe in the importance of the special worth of each individual, liberated to become the author of their own life story – supported by strengthened families, communities and...