
John Redwood: The EU is failing to implement parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol and has damaged the Belfast Agreement
This must be explained to US Democrats who do not understand the unionist position or the legal background.
Sir John Redwood is MP for Wokingham, and is a former Secretary of State for Wales.
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The Government needs to trust the people more and resort to rule-making less. This Queen’s speech should set that tone.
Wrong-headed Treasury thinking will leave people paying unnecessarily high as the cost-of-living crisis strikes.
If the government is providing the money for public services, it needs more control over how that money is spent.
Our troubles will be compounded by Ministers’ import promotion policies, most pronounced in the Business, Energy and Agriculture departments.
There should be a growth target to complement the inflation target – to drive government departments to take actions that will promote more UK activity and jobs.
The first in a series of mid-morning fortnightly Monday columns from the former Cabinet Minister.
Why is it that those on the Right who urge higher pay are vilified, while the Left applauds a low pay model for the economy?
It is meant to be a United Kingdom-wide institution. It should help create a sense of common culture and shared democratic conversation.
What we need is to promote a higher wage, higher productivity economy. Our economic targets should reflect those aims.
The Archbishop of Canterbury misunderstands the origins of the EU, which were drawn from Germany’s zollverein – not Christian social teaching.
Here’s how can now use our freedoms as we leave – assuming there is no last-minute wish to be sensible by the EU and agree a free trade deal.
We know is that a lockdown is very damaging. The first one took around a quarter off our national income and output. We cannot afford to do that again.
The first thing that would help would be for the Government to allow more time. And MPs could indicate to the control system they would like to intervene.
We are looking at a possible deep recession, with a big surge in jobless and the loss of substantial capacity to produce goods and services for the future.