Some post-Brexit barriers to business between the UK and the EU are a consequence of both parties failing to clinch an agreement that one or the other or both already have with third parties – in which the loser is the industry concerned, on both sides of the...
Vaccine Free Pass: HM’s Government urges illegal migrants to get Covid vaccine
Advertisements People living in the United Kingdom unlawfully have been told by HM’s government they will not be risking deportation by coming forward for a coronavirus jab. Ministers have said they want everyone that is able to receive the vaccine to be vaccinated...
Lord Ashcroft: For many voters, America’s election was not about Biden – but a referendum on Trump
Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC is a businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster. For information on Lord Ashcroft’s work, visit www.lordashcroft.com. Joe Biden’s inauguration today will be greeted with a huge sigh of relief by millions in America and around the world. The...
Profile. Kwarteng Unchained. The rise, wobble and rise of the big, bold, bright new Business Secretary
Last Friday, Kwasi Kwarteng slipped quietly into the Cabinet as Business Secretary. His promotion was announced, ConHome noted, with no fanfare, but could prove one of Boris Johnson’s most significant appointments. For as soon as the emphasis shifts from...
Will Holloway: The challenges awaiting Ministers and MPs as Parliament returns today
Will Holloway is the Deputy Director of the think tank Onward and a former Special Adviser. This is not the New Year reset that the Government was hoping for. Parliament has returned not to slowing transmission and a gradual reopening of the economy, but to the worst...
The Deal in Detail 5) Immigration
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...
Home Office forced to spend £36m of taxpayers’ cash fighting immigration judicial reviews last year
Advertisements The Government has been forced to spend nearly £36 Million of taxpayers’ funds fighting judicial reviews related to immigration cases last year it has emerged. The news comes as the Home Secretary Priti Patel prepares to champion new laws to stop...
Britain set to deny entry to migrants who passing through a safe third country
Advertisements The United Kingdom has changed immigration rules to prevent people who have passed through safe nations claiming asylum in the United Kingdom. From 1 January, claims of asylum from a person who has travelled through or has a connection to a safe third...
Ambitious, energetic, but quiet on the culture wars – a year on from Johnson’s “stonking” majority, what have we learned?
Tomorrow it will be a year since Boris Johnson won his “stonking mandate” in the general election, and what a year it has been. From managing the Coronavirus crisis, to becoming gravely ill with it himself, to his quest for a Brexit trade deal, to dealing...
Alberto Costa: There are too many barriers to Britishness. Post-Brexit, it’s time for a more welcoming citizenship policy.
Alberto Costa is the MP for for South Leicestershire. Citizenship, being British, plays a foundational role in our society. It is a shared bond between us. Yet successive Labour and Conservative governments have neglected citizenship policy to such an extent that it’s...