“Let us renew the relationship that can lead the world towards the promise of freedom and prosperity marked out by those ordinary citizens 240 years ago.”
Do it well, and we could help world trade as well as our own interests.
She waited for a phone call when Trump won his election. And she watched as he puffed Farage. But he seems to have decided that he needs her.
The new President’s one big plus for Britain is that he is a Brexit enthuasiast. In this sense, his White House arrival is her lucky break. Since she’s got it, she must grab it.
She needn’t to give a blow-by-blow account of the negotiations, but better communication would put any departure turbulence in its proper context.
We will be an ally, not a member, of the United States of Europe.
The logic of her view that no deal is better than a bad one suggests that, like Thatcher at Fontainebleau, she is prepared to walk away if necessary.
Out of the Single Market. Out, in effect, of the Customs Union. A Parliamentary vote – but on May’s terms, not Farron’s.
We will do better outside the EU, the Single Market and the Customs Union.
Quitting it would mean more scope for trade deals and lower prices. Modern countries don’t need such unions to do business.
We shouldn’t take the ideological pronouncements of the Commission as being set in stone. The member states may yet have their say.
My new book lays out a plan for a phased repatriation of power which will secure our sovereignty while maintaining links with our allies.
My new study for Civitas sets out a practicable alternative to an agreement at any cost.
Cortés burnt his ships, thus making a retreat to Europe impossible – and an advance into the New World the only way forward. May now faces her own Cortes Moment.