Bouncing into a customs union would be a betrayal of Brexit April 24, 2018 News over the weekend that Theresa May might be considering a customs union with the EU post-Brexit was baffling to life-long Eurosceptics. For years before the referendum, would-be Brexiteers painted two economic pictures of life outside the EU. The first was a Thatcherite Britain – one seeking to reverse swathes of EU regulation and immigration [...]
No confidence: This is how Tory MPs plan to vote in tonight’s crucial contest over Theresa May’s future as Prime Minister December 12, 2018 The number of MPs who have declared themselves either in support of or against the leadership of Prime Minister Theresa May is growing. Here's who has said what so far. A vote of no confidence was triggered this morning, after more than 48 MPs sent in letters to Sir Graham Brady who controls the process. The [...]
Economists “debunk” Whitehall Brexit analysis – and claim the economy will grow February 20, 2018 A group of pro-Brexit economists claim to have “comprehensively debunked” Whitehall analysis suggesting the UK is heading for a period of depressed growth after leaving the EU, arguing the government’s stated policy will actually lead to growth. The Economists for Free Trade believe Brexit on the basis of Theresa May’s Lancaster House speech will boost [...]
David Miliband is delusional if he thinks he can block Brexit May 16, 2018 In case you have forgotten who David Miliband is, let me help: there is a photo of the former foreign secretary holding a banana. It captured in one surreal image everything you need to know about him and why you should not listen to a word he says. No intelligent or self-respecting politician would be [...]
IEA poaches Legatum’s top Brexit adviser Shanker Singham and team March 9, 2018 Free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has poached Shanker Singham and three of his team from rival firm Legatum. Singham, who is widely seen as one of the top Brexit policy advisers and has played a key role in guiding the government’s thinking on the issue, will head up the IEA’s [...]
IEA poaches Legatum’s top Brexit adviser Shanker Singham and team March 9, 2018 Free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has poached Shanker Singham and three of his team from rival firm Legatum. Singham, who is widely seen as one of the top Brexit policy advisers and has played a key role in guiding the government's thinking on the issue, will head up the IEA's [...]
Labour MPs demand Corbyn “gets off the fence” over Brexit and commits to staying in Single Market and customs union January 30, 2018 Labour MPs are calling on leader Jeremy Corbyn and his frontbench team to “get off the fence” and take a position on Brexit after 19 months of ambiguity. Backbenchers including former shadow minister Catherine West, the leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party Richard Corbett MEP, and Lord Monks, the former general secretary of the [...]
Michael Gove just totally dissed economists and “expert” pollsters and social scientists November 27, 2016 Michael Gove has dissed economists, calling them out for failing to predict the financial crisis back in 2008 and for getting it wrong when it comes to the impact of June's vote for Brexit, as well as labelling the profession "in crisis". The former justice secretary and Leave campaigner who was sacked from the frontbench by [...]
Michael Gove backs Theresa May decision: “I would have sacked me too” December 10, 2016 Michael Gove has said Theresa May was right to oust him from the cabinet, saying: “If I’d been in her shoes, I would have sacked me too.” The former justice secretary has also said he regretted running for the Conservative Party leadership. Read more: Gove questions EEF over pre-Brexit membership polls And Gove said he had [...]
Michael Gove has questioned the efforts of the EEF to poll its membership ahead of the Brexit vote November 30, 2016 Michael Gove has questioned the efforts of a manufacturing trade body to survey its members over Brexit. In a Brexit select committee hearing, Gove took EEF director of EU affairs Fergus McReynolds to task over surveys of its membership. The EEF was one of several trade bodies to back a Remain vote, but Gove said [...]