
Ben Roback: The arms race taking place to establish a new ‘Special Relationship’
With May distracted by Brexit, Macron is risking domestic political pushback to become Trump’s ‘bridge to Europe’.
With May distracted by Brexit, Macron is risking domestic political pushback to become Trump’s ‘bridge to Europe’.
The new Office for Students must lead in this. There must be sanctions from the new regulator for those universities who are failing in this regard.
Despite talk of the negotiations getting bogged down, the French president seems to understand that the process is about politics more than legal complexity.
The Prime Minister faces a difficult afternoon – but will be aided by the unwillingess of Tory backbenchers to line up with Jeremy Corbyn.
“We have been here before, when we have not had clear evidence about weapons of mass destruction.”
She will be feeling a hand of history on her shoulder, and wondering if the other holds a knife at her back.
Reports this morning suggest conflict within the Government and hesitation in America. And no wonder.
As well as sending a very strong signal to Moscow, the Government is making good progress towards a Brexit deal too.
To listen to some commentators a few weeks ago, you’d have thought it was only EU membership – not shared interests and values – that brings allies together.
The “extraordinary international response by our allies” amounts to “the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers ever”, Johnson says.
Both leading EU states and the US are following the Prime Minister’s lead on Russia.
Plus: The Whips need to get a grip. I greet the recovery of the pound. I fear for the future of our high streets.
The UK can not allow Russia to believe it got away with it without serious consequences.
It’s all too easy to ascribe the capabilities of Russia’s best chess players to its secret services. But consider a radical possibility: the latter have messed up.
The message that some send to Brussels – that if the Eurocrats make it all painful enough then we can be bullied into changing our minds – is mistaken but harmful.