“The success of global trading is key, not only to our own future prosperity but in liberating the millions of human beings who still live in the scandal of global poverty.”
London is as important to the EU, if not more important, than is the EU market to London.
“Even now some politicians – democratically elected politicians – say the referendum isn’t valid… the referendum result was clear, it was legitimate”.
To those who are trying to frighten British workers, saying “When we leave, employment rights will be eroded”, I say firmly and unequivocally “no they won’t’.
“It is not going to be a “Norway model”…It is going to be an agreement between an independent United Kingdom and the European Union.”
She is moving at a brisk pace down that road towards leaving the EU.
She has taken a decisive step along a road that is very clearly signposted. She cannot turn back without political ruin. And there is no sign whatsoever that she wants to.
In practice, though, it’s a wholly avoidable problem. All that’s needed is the political will to sustain our current partnership.
There is a trade-off between the long-term interest of the economy and the short-term interest of many Leave voters.
We were told at the time that David Cameron’s Government had secured a reformed EU…which the same people now tell us Theresa May somehow prevented it from securing.
No-one expects the former Prime Minister to be happy about what has happened. But trying to dodge responsibility is deeply unattractive.
“We’re not going to do it before Christmas,” the Foreign Secretary says.
May has no reason to believe that the French and German elections will produce stability in Europe. Osborne is asking her to wait for Godot.
We present chapter and verse of seven ways in which Project Fear’s short-term warnings have turned out to be mistaken.
A Canadian-British trade agreement will take considerably less time than the current Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the EU.