Given the EU’s risk levels, its lack of investment in NATO and its poor relations with its neighbours, it is hardly an attractive partner; more of a liability.
Subject to mutual agreement, we could establish an integrated UK/French border patrol to rescue migrants at sea and bring them to a place of safety.
The core of the problem seems to be that both its own system and the Google/Apple alternative pose substantial problems.
Like it or not, the EU agreed to two customs territories on the island of Ireland – and a solution to the disagreement flows from that fact.
From fishing to illegal immigration, Britain must make preparations to give its claim of “walking away” some weight.
I am troubled by signs coming from the UK-EU negotiations. We must not water down rights for those fleeing war, persecution and violence.
Given the salience of the topic, we are republishing the Chair of the Foreign Select Committee’s article above each day this week.
It would require the willingness of exam boards to adjust their timetables. But with the will to achieve this, it could be done.
The priority must be to get rid of the virus – anything to jeopardise that could push travel even further way.
Nothing is certain in this crisis; not even the possibility of another large outbreak, as Switzerland and Denmark suggest.
We need to be clear and robust when it comes to tackling security and ending the abuses of European human rights laws.
The nub of the matter is that without changes to the law the entrants will keep coming to Britain.
The president has lost his majority during the course of the Coronavirus pandemic. How will it affect his odds at the 2022 election?
As a member of his first Cabinet, I was tested in Northern Ireland – as elsewhere the new government reduced the defict and reformed public services.
Those that prevent ordinary Syrians from accessing humanitarian aid and economic opportunities should be ended.