Peter Lilley: Don’t lose your head over ‘Henry VIII powers’

The provisions of the Withdrawal Bill are limited in scope, will be policed by the courts, and lack any plausible alternative.

Peter Lilley: That £350 million figure. The EU’s negotiating position shows it to be less of an exaggeration than has been claimed.

It makes spending commitments which exceed the amounts it budgets to spend. Those escalating commitments…will approach E250 billion by the time we leave.

Peter Lilley: Ten years on, the Stern Review’s failures still need to be exposed

It was not an exercise in evidence-based policy-making but the most egregious example of policy-based evidence making.

Peter Lilley: Brexit should be swift. Here’s how to do it.

The widespread presumption that everything is a matter for negotiation is damaging nonsense. Once we identify the issues which we can decide, Ministers can start taking decisions.

Peter Lilley: Yes, I believe in free trade. But here’s why we must protect our NHS from TTIP.

Conservatives should be very wary of the deal as a whole, reject part of it outright, and exclude our health service from it.