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Nick Boles MP

Posts by Nick Boles MP

Nick Boles is MP for Grantham and Stamford. He serves as Minister of State jointly at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Education.

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Nick Boles: Like all revolutionaries, once-reasonable Brexiteers slide towards ever greater radicalism

Where Farage, Johnson and Paterson once praised the Norway option, it is now denounced as apostasy.

Comment | By Nick Boles MP | 23 January 2019 at 11:08 am | 201 comments

Nick Boles: Demolishing five myths about Norway Plus

The plan is not perfect. It is a compromise. But as its popularity grows, it has attracted some unfair and inaccurate criticism.

Comment, Highlights | By Nick Boles MP | 18 December 2018 at 6:20 am | 164 comments

Nick Boles: So you don’t like Chequers. In which case, you need a workable altenative. Here’s mine. What’s yours?

In the long-term, we should be pursuing a Canada-style free trade agreement. In the short, we should park ourselves in the EEA.

Comment | By Nick Boles MP | 12 September 2018 at 11:00 am | 126 comments

Nick Boles: For a Brexit that works, we must stay in the Customs Union until early in 2022

if the Government insists on an unrealistic policy to satisfy my more ideological colleagues, I will vote against it for the first time in my parliamentary career.

Comment, Highlights | By Nick Boles MP | 16 May 2018 at 6:20 am | 238 comments

Nick Boles: To revitalise modern Conservatism, we must offer voters a Square Deal

My new project takes inspiration from Teddy Roosevelt, who saved American capitalism from itself.

Comment, Highlights | By Nick Boles MP | 26 October 2017 at 6:30 am | 66 comments

Nick Boles: Why Britain should transition to full Brexit over three years – leaving before the next election is due

A six-year move from referendum vote to full sovereignty, rather than a sudden ripping away of all ties, is surely what a successful departure looks like.

Comment, Highlights | By Nick Boles MP | 16 July 2017 at 6:30 am | 169 comments

Nick Boles: I backed Remain. But I hope other MPs who did so too reject these Lords amendments to the Article 50 bill.

They will be considered in the Commons this week – and would have the effect of undermining the Prime Minister’s negotiation.

Comment, Highlights | By Nick Boles MP | 12 March 2017 at 6:30 am | 171 comments

Nick Boles: Liberal Conservatives must abandon impractical dreams of staying in the Single Market

It would be an error to choose to fight on ground which is impossible to defend. We must develop a vision of a liberal UK outside the EU.

Comment, Highlights | By Nick Boles MP | 17 January 2017 at 6:30 am | 15 comments

Nick Boles: Immigration. Control and openness aren’t opposites – they go together

Only when the public feel that our borders are under control, by people accountable to the electorate, will we be able to win back their trust.

Comment | By Nick Boles MP | 10 October 2016 at 10:30 am | 73 comments

Nick Boles: We modernisers aren’t, repeat aren’t, quitting the Party. We’re staying put – and we’ve so much more to do.

We have never been more mainstream in the Conservative Party – so much so that most practitioners have never felt the need to identify themselves as such.

Comment, Highlights | By Nick Boles MP | 10 July 2016 at 12:45 pm | 127 comments

Nick Boles: I’m a moderniser. I backed Remain. And here’s why I believe Johnson should be the next Conservative leader

Many of my closest friends in politics will struggle with the choice I am recommending. But the national interest must come first.

Comment, Highlights | By Nick Boles MP | 27 June 2016 at 6:30 am | 92 comments

Nick Boles: Stop the witch hunt against Andrew Feldman

The death of one good man will not be assuaged by another good man being forced to resign by media pressure.

Comment, Highlights | By Nick Boles MP | 10 December 2015 at 6:45 am | 46 comments

Nick Boles MP: Our Trade Union Bill will protect the working people who are hit hardest by strikes

We recognise the vital role of unions, and the right to strike – but the interests of the general public must be considered, too.

Comment | By Nick Boles MP | 14 September 2015 at 9:30 am | 20 comments

Nick Boles MP: Our reforms will make the trade union movement modern and accountable

We believe in the right to strike – but it cannot be unconditional or absolute.

Comment | By Nick Boles MP | 15 July 2015 at 12:05 pm | 65 comments

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