The EU seeks to avoid duplication, but there is already a cross-European defence forum that could address efficiency issues, such as armed forces’ inter-operability, it’s called NATO.
People voted for change, but not change for the worse. So bring on the u-turns – then we might get going in a positive direction for the changes we actually want want.
Defenders of the status quo on international law ought, you would think, to avoid making agreements which exacerbate the tension between that system and national democracy.
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
We must seek a change of Government and take the EU back to Mutual Enforcement, the border solution they developed. The subject of my Private Members Bill, Mutual Enforcement provides a means of delivering Brexit on a constitutionally sustainable basis
Whatever the final outcome, there is only one way to prevent further Russian aggression: Europe must re-arm, diverting spending from our bloated welfare states into industry, weapons and manpower.
His statement should encourage Britain to believe in itself – and the Government to make faster and better provision for a stronger military to take care of our own defence.
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.
Now this Bulgarian government appears to have overreached. Convinced it would not have to face the voters for four years, it had begun to show contempt for the people.
Whether President Trump likes it or not, this war is now his war. He did not start it, but it is he who needs to end it. And it can only end if the peace that follows is durable.
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
I trust the OBR will not give their forecasts of growth a boost from the proposed reset. They should see the reset wants to lock us back into a system of controls, tariffs and taxes that will be negative for our economy.
Prime Minister Tusk and Foreign Minister Sikorski want to anchor Poland’s security in European and like minded democratic alliances, President Karol Nawrocki has put his faith in a like minded individual: Donald Trump.
Next time you hear “I’m never buying an EV” or “you won’t catch me driving one of those plug-in things”, you might be listening to an enlightened futurist, not a frustrated Luddite.