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Anthony Browne

Posts by Anthony Browne

Anthony Browne is a former director of Policy Exchange and a former Europe correspondent of the Times.

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 10) Greater control of our borders

Ministers will only be able to justify plans to relax rules for skilled workers from around the world if they are also introducing controls on unskilled EU workers.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 31 May 2019 at 6:20 am | 149 comments

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 9) Allowing grocers to sell apples by the pound

The David and Goliath struggle between the Metric Martyrs and EU harmonisation could yet have a happy ending.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 30 May 2019 at 6:20 am | 38 comments

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 8) Scrapping the tampon tax

EU VAT harmonisation rules require tampons and other sanitary products to be taxed at a minimum of five per cent.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 29 May 2019 at 6:20 am | 22 comments

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 7) Banning the export of live animals for slaughter

Single Market rules forbade the UK from ending this practice, despite widespread public outcry.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 28 May 2019 at 6:20 am | 18 comments

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 6) Getting public procurement to work

At one point, City Hall officials told me the only way to get a project done was to hire external lawyers to take City Hall’s procurement lawyers to court.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 27 May 2019 at 6:20 am | 13 comments

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 5) Making regional development more effective

The then EU Budget Commissioner told me that giving control of this funding to national governments would make it subject to “democratic whim”.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 24 May 2019 at 6:20 am | 21 comments

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 4) Improving competition amongst retail banks

Brussels gold-plates global standards, the Basel rules, and applies them to all banks of all sizes.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 23 May 2019 at 6:20 am | 14 comments

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 3) Restoring Duty Free

Some MPs, such as Charlie Elphicke, have been pushing to bring it back not just to bring joy to passengers, but to help revitalise ports and other seaside towns.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 22 May 2019 at 6:30 am | 17 comments

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 2) Cutting VAT on domestic electricity

With average household energy bills around £1000 a year, it would be a cut of about £50 per year per family.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 21 May 2019 at 6:20 am | 40 comments

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 1) We need more debate about what to do when we take back control

Most of the sound and furore about making it happen is all about means, but there has been virtually no debate about the ends.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 20 May 2019 at 6:20 am | 138 comments

Anthony Browne: It may take two heaves to achieve a proper Brexit. But accepting the deal – for now – is the best way to get there.

It is much preferable to pushing the country to the abyss, which will jeopardise the Conservative Party, the economy and Brexit itself.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 20 November 2018 at 6:20 am | 117 comments

Anthony Browne: Here’s why passporting is vital to the City. And why Ministers must strive to keep it.

Downplaying the importance of these rights goes against the golden rule of negotiations that you start out high, and don’t ask for less than you want.

Comment, Highlights | By Anthony Browne | 11 October 2016 at 6:20 am | 36 comments

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  • The campaign, week five. Johnson holds his ground – and aims to end next week where he began. With getting Brexit done. December 6, 2019
  • Iain Dale: Gulp – here’s my prediction for the election result December 6, 2019
  • Steve Baker: Five tips for new Conservative MPs December 6, 2019
  • How the Conservatives won the election – and Gove became Prime Minister December 5, 2019
  • Garvan Walshe: How the majority needed to deliver Brexit will thwart the reform needed to make a success of it December 5, 2019
  • Council by-election result from yesterday December 6, 2019
  • Read the Conservative Manifesto in full December 6, 2019
  • ConHome’s election panel. “The Conservatives should be obsessing about contrast – not just on Brexit, but other wedge issues too.” December 6, 2019
  • Lord Ashcroft: “A craven opportunist”; “She’s a bit militant”; “I want it over and done with” – my final round of election focus groups December 6, 2019
  • “The gap between a hung Parliament and a landslide is very, very small.” Kanagasooriam on the election’s closing stages. December 6, 2019

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