Italy heads to the polls on Sunday. It is likely to be another illustration of the uneasy relationship between the country’s volatile democratic politics and the strictures of Brussels’ political and economic orthodoxy.
The Party’s internationalist-minded Left talks the rebellious talk, but is less ready to walk the walk.
The need to protect the Belfast Agreement is the most plausible argument as the Bill faces its second reading today.
Our elites are always measuring the present against some mythical golden age, but the facts paint a different picture.
This argument is often called upon when there is a requirement to act in order to safeguard an ‘essential interest’.
In what universe is “the peril which has emerged” not inherent to the structure of the deal he struck?
“The Treasury Finance Ministry view of the world isn’t about structural reform to increase the productive capacity of the economy.”
The Foreign Secretary’s proposals for reforming the Protocol are extraordinary in their modesty. But the EU will never relinquish its advantage.
The Assembly is an inadequate vehicle for securing democratic consent, and 2024 is far too long to wait to do so.
The Attorney General on judges, Asian values, Spartans, the Good Law Project, Lord Frost – and why the Tories should revive the torch logo.
No volume of technical argument will matter if the debate remains framed entirely to the UK’s disadvantage.
Even if the Government has the will to act, it has rattled its sabres so long, and to so little effect, that this isn’t obvious.
Dominic Raab says that there has been “constructive engagement” with Brussels, but no breakthrough.
The Government needs to trust the people more and resort to rule-making less. This Queen’s speech should set that tone.
I would have preferred a negotiated solution to the sea border, but in the face of EU intransigence the new prime minister must protect the Union.