In practice, though, it’s a wholly avoidable problem. All that’s needed is the political will to sustain our current partnership.
We were told that we needed the EU to get trade deals agreed that would help us. Now look at what’s happened.
It’s also a reminder of how fortunate we are to be leaving this overbearing organisation.
The Prime Minister discusses economic links and border arrangements.
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A new book charts how, over the course of a complicated career, he tried to bring peace to the island whilst defending British interests.
A further graft from the remnants of Labour and the LibDems might be the best way of preserving the Union and providing an alternative government to the SNP.
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“For Britain, voting to leave will be a galvanising, liberating, empowering moment of patriotic renewal.”
The Secretary of State explains to Murnaghan that the overwhelming majority of people in Northern Ireland are committed to peace and democracy.
And much of this material is propaganda – not fact.
The referendum vote was ostensibly against a trade deal, but it wasn’t really about it at all.
A modicum of sensitivity at Westminster might have seen the Easter Rising fizzle out. Ireland might have evolved peacefully into a self-governing Commonwealth ally.
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?
Truthfully, I expected at every stage that someone would come up with a showstopper reason why it can’t possibly work. No one has come up with one.