A customs union offers then two simple things – a solution to Britain’s disentangling Union (and it really is disentangling) and a quick and noticeable boost to growth, and it does so whilst leaving Britain’s practicable sovereignty no worse off
What if a new leader – Wes Streeting, say – wins the premiership, then goes to the country in 2029, on a promise to rejoin the EU customs union, maybe even the single market? Doesn’t that give most of the left a cause they can get fired up about?
Our deputy editor tells TalkTV’s Ian Collins that both major parties are now grappling with the disaggregation of their historic coalitions.
Badenoch pointed out that the Employment Bill is incompatible with the Government’s great new mission.
From renationalisation of the energy and train companies to a bonfire of environmental and employment regulations, taking back control from Brussels has opened a new range of possibilities that were previously off the menu.
There is much that we can offer the region thanks to our expertise in many of the twenty-first century’s key industries.
The UK has made it crystal clear to its trading partners which side of the table it is going to be on.
We need to deliver a more robust, and more balanced, outcome than we could in 2019.
It would lead to thousands of job losses and closed businesses in the UK, among other damaging consequences.
Political leadership is needed in Belfast no less than in London – in some respects, even more so.
He is well-placed to knock on the doors of individual member states, as the Government and the Union lock horns over free movement.
The EU’s missteps over the last week have provided an excellent opportunity to seek changes to the Protocol that might provide for a more durable settlement.
If the Spartans hadn’t held out against the pleas of our colleagues then Britain would have been trapped in a customs union with no way out.
Two senior ERG officers write that the Agreement excludes the jurisdiction in the UK of the European Court of Justice.
Rachel Reeves wants us to forget that our economic mess is one largely of her own making. Instead of a prudent approach to spending cuts, the Chancellor wants to distract whilst she finds new ways to raise taxes to fill a fiscal hole she’s dug herself