Peter Marshall: The EU is the cuckoo in the WTO nest

The latter has never had the clout nor the resources required for it to do its ever-expanding task. It has had to play catch-up.
 


Peter Lilley: Sovereignty or prosperity? It’s a false choice. They go hand in hand.

Not being able to blame Brussels for our problems nor look to the EU for solutions will be immensely reinvigorating.

Robert Halfon: In defence of populism

It’s time for us to acknowledge that it is a response to our own failures – and to listen to voters who are opting for it.

Coming soon to a party near you: the Institute for Protection

Supporters of a new pro-free trade think-tank will be told that Tories are all behind them in principle. But…

Trump and May. She channels Reagan and Thatcher in the first speech of her American visit.

Downing Street may have briefed in advance that there’s no real comparison. But she will clearly play on it for all it’s worth.

“NATO – the cornerstone of the West’s defence”. The Prime Minister’s speech to the Republican Party Congress: full text

“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.”

May warns Davos of globalisation’s downside – and “the cult of individualism”. Her speech: full text

“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”

Hammond’s debut. His big task is to persuade business that an Open Britain lies ahead after we leave the EU

Circumstances dictate a suck-it-and-see Autumn Statement – but also one that can transcend its own caution by pointing to a visionary landscape ahead.

Lewis Baston: Wilson. Attlee. Major. The costs, gains and consequences of devaluation

It has been where there is an air of panic and chaos, with a government forced to bow its knee to the markets, that there is real political damage.

The OECD, the IMF, the Treasury, Osborne. How the experts got it wrong on the aftermath of a Leave vote.

We present chapter and verse of seven ways in which Project Fear’s short-term warnings have turned out to be mistaken.

Yes, a moment for happiness. But also a moment for healing – and humility

Triumphalism would not only be unfair to David Cameron, one of the most electorally successful Tory election winners of modern times. It would also be deeply wrong.

After the referendum. If Britain doesn’t get a new Chancellor, it faces the prospect of a Zombie Government

It will risk being unable to get its business through the Commons.

Eamonn Butler: Brexit. Worse than the Great Depression? Really? Osborne is treating us like fools.

How can the Chancellor keep a straight face while spouting this nonsense?

Lord Ashcroft: ‘Scaremongering’, Hitler, Boris and the IMF – my focus group visits Birmingham and Scotland

“If we’re going to balls our country up let’s do it ourselves, not let somebody else do it.”

James Cartlidge: I will vote Remain because I believe in the sovereignty that matters most – that of economic strength

Do people find sovereignty in a Parliament they regrettably take little interest in – or in actual power and the pound in their pocket: their job; their standard of living?