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Alistair Burt MP

Posts by Alistair Burt MP

Alistair Burt is MP for North-East Bedfordshire and a former Foreign Office Minister

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Alistair Burt: The electoral smoke thickens while the foreign policy challenge endures

The next few years abroad will be as absorbing as any in recent years, and will demand more of the new Tory intake’s attention than might be considered usual.

Comment | By Alistair Burt MP | 10 May 2017 at 11:00 am | 31 comments

Alistair Burt: Last week, Iain Duncan Smith told his Brexit story. Here’s mine.

The script for the new relationship with the EU must be written as much by those who valued it as by those who campaigned to leave it.

Comment | By Alistair Burt MP | 4 April 2017 at 11:00 am | 143 comments

Alistair Burt: It’s time for Remainers to accept the referendum result – and I say that as a pro-European

The correct response to its aftermath and to Blair’s speech is not to refight old battles, but to build a positive relationship with the Union from the outside.

Comment, Highlights | By Alistair Burt MP | 20 February 2017 at 6:30 am | 165 comments

Alistair Burt: The resignation of Rogers is a warning to enthusiasts for Leave – and to us all

If such cautions from a public servant are dismissed simply as coming from a Europhile, then we will all be the losers.

Comment, Highlights | By Alistair Burt MP | 4 January 2017 at 6:40 am | 158 comments

Alistair Burt: Why we need Brexit Select Committees – and need them now.

We will want to offer Parliament’s view of the extent of prerogative, and where we believe overt Parliamentary endorsement will be in the country’s interest.

Comment | By Alistair Burt MP | 5 September 2016 at 10:30 am | 41 comments

Alistair Burt: Yes, there is an idealism about the EU – and in voting to Remain in it

How quickly we forget, and how much we do at our peril. Peace in Europe! How our parents and grandparents longed for it.

Comment, Highlights | By Alistair Burt MP | 20 April 2016 at 6:40 am | 91 comments

Alistair Burt MP: By May, at least one party leader will share the fate of Irvine and Warnock

In his Christmas and New Year season review, The Gaffer probes cup glory, sacked managers, leadership fortunes, and the loyalty of Steve Gerrard.

Columnists | By Alistair Burt MP | 11 January 2015 at 7:00 am | 22 comments

Alistair Burt MP: The strange silence of British politicians over Merkel’s confrontation of extremism

Why have our leaders not echoed her condemnation of it?

Comment, Highlights | By Alistair Burt MP | 4 January 2015 at 6:30 am | 180 comments

Alistair Burt MP: A Christmas football lesson from the First World War for the modern game

And on 1st July 1916, men who went over the top on that first morning of the battle of the Somme kicked their precious footballs before them.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alistair Burt MP | 17 December 2014 at 6:30 am

Alistair Burt MP: In praise of your local football club – an enhancer of social cohesion

It is claimed that one 
and a half million people play five a side football every week. Perhaps as many as four million play 
during the course of a year.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alistair Burt MP | 1 November 2014 at 6:45 am | 34 comments

Alistair Burt MP: Why I’m sticking up for Westminster

Scotland’s referendum proves that our democratic system can engage voters. Yes, it needs to change. But let’s not fall into the American-style trap of denigrating it .

Comment, Highlights | By Alistair Burt MP | 20 September 2014 at 6:30 am | 50 comments

Alistair Burt MP: The clinching pro-Union argument. The more Tory MPs Scotland has, the better its football does

The legions of ConHome footy fans are eagerly focusing on this key issue: what impact will a ‘Yes/No’ vote have on the country’s historic football decline?

Columnists, Highlights | By Alistair Burt MP | 6 September 2014 at 6:45 am | 21 comments

Alistair Burt MP: Amidst the turmoil of Iraq, my hopes for Kurdistan

It is at the cross-roads of the Shia-Sunni conflict, yet remains outside of it. It is a majority Muslim country, but with a history of peaceful co-existence.

Comment | By Alistair Burt MP | 11 August 2014 at 12:00 pm | 7 comments

Alistair Burt MP: Reshuffles would work better if we learned from football transfer season

The departure of of Suarez from Liverpool is more understandable than that of Damian Green, Nick Hurd or Dominic Grieve.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alistair Burt MP | 2 August 2014 at 7:00 am | 16 comments

Alistair Burt MP: This World Cup has claims to be so far the best ever

Equality and Brilliance are trouncing Money and Cheating

Columnists, Highlights | By Alistair Burt MP | 5 July 2014 at 6:45 am | 16 comments

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