The European Union is looking to expand in the future, with the Commission recommending that Albania and North Macedonia begin membership talks to join the bloc. Latest stories direct in your inbox Sign up for the free Red Alert email: The EU’s so-called ‘High...
Anthony Browne is a former director of Policy Exchange and a former Europe correspondent of the Times. It is probably the only tax cut that has enjoyed not just widespread public support, but consensus across the political spectrum. But as Chancellor, George Osborne...
Nadhim Zahawi is Minister for Children and Families and is the MP for Stratford-on-Avon. The results from the European elections make one thing abundantly clear – that voters will abandon and punish politicians who do not keep their promises. If the...
Andrew Sharpe OBE is Chairman of the National Conservative Convention. He has previously served as President and Vice-President of the NC and before that held office as an Association Chairman, Area Chairman and Regional Chairman in the Conservative party. The...
Italy’s Lega party and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally both claimed victory after a dramatic night of European Election results. Latest stories direct in your inbox Sign up for the free Red Alert email: Exit polls showed Matteo Salvini’s Lega to be in first place for...
It would be foolish to offer a final verdict on the European election results, since Scotland and Northern Ireland have yet to declare, but a brief summary of what they suggest so far is in order. Although very many people are disengaged from the Brexit debate, it is...
Anthony Browne is a former director of Policy Exchange and a former Europe correspondent of the Times. I admit that procurement policy is not something that has ever threatened to swing an election, but making it less dysfunctional could dramatically improve the...
Results for the EU Parliament elections are beginning to roll in, with Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in first place in Britain, Marine Le Pen appearing to defeat Emmanuel Macron in France, and important wins for national populists in bulwarks Poland and Hungary. This...
Jonathan Clark was a Fellow of Peterhouse; at Oxford, he was a Fellow of All Souls College; latterly he has been Visiting Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at Chicago, and Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. His...
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is a Vice-Chairman of the 1922 Committe, and is MP for the Cotswolds. Ever since the Second World War, the issue of Europe has been a divisive one for the Conservative Party. During the early 1960s, there was certainly a degree of enthusiasm...
