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Anna Nadibaidze: Where do the other members of the EU stand on the question of an Article 50 delay?

It would need unanimous agreement. Looking at each of the 27’s varying comments, there are six distinct camps of opinion.

By Anna Nadibaidze | 15 March 2019 | 75 comments

Henry Newman: A dozen reasons to unstop the backstop

It now the main issue blocking a negotiated agreement – thus risking a No Deal and potentially a harder Irish border. In short, it risks triggering the very thing it is supposed to avoid.

By Henry Newman | 30 October 2018 | 74 comments

“Never mistake British politeness for British weakness.” Hunt’s Conference speech, full text

” If you turn the EU club into a prison, the desire to get out won’t diminish it will grow…and we won’t be the only prisoner that will want to escape.”

30 September 2018 | 28 comments

Henry Newman: What will the EU look like after we have left it?

Our exit in will coincide with a new cycle of European elections which will redraw political power in the European Parliament and other EU institutions.

By Henry Newman | 21 August 2018 | 170 comments

Daniel Hamilton: Ten years on from Putin’s invasion of Georgia, the West must learn the lesson of its failure

The 2008 war was an illustration of the serious threat the Kremlin posed. It went unheeded, and so Russia has repeated the trick.

By Daniel Hamilton | 7 August 2018 | 72 comments

Eighteen countries express solidarity with the UK by expelling Russian ‘diplomats’

The “extraordinary international response by our allies” amounts to “the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers ever”, Johnson says.

By Mark Wallace | 26 March 2018 | 111 comments

Can May turn a good foreign policy week into political advantage at home?

Both leading EU states and the US are following the Prime Minister’s lead on Russia.

By Henry Hill | 24 March 2018 | 74 comments

What Zahawi does in the daytime

Well, at least more people than previously now know he is Minister for Children and Families. What should be in his in-tray?

By Paul Goodman | 25 January 2018 | 185 comments

Young Labour’s anti-NATO policy is stuffed full of bogus, ahistorical nonsense

The future leaders of the Left either don’t know their history, or prefer a made-up version of it.

By Mark Wallace | 16 October 2017 | 77 comments

Iain Duncan Smith: Family breakdown is too big a problem to ignore any longer

Children lose out, and there’s a knock-on elder care, too.

By Iain Duncan Smith | 14 February 2017 | 66 comments

Daniel Kawczynski: Brexit. Our European allies didn’t back us up in the past, so May can’t put her faith in them now

The overwhelming evidence, after years of trying, is that the political will and courage simply is not there.

By Daniel Kawczynski MP | 14 January 2017 | 74 comments

Stuart Gardner: Do events in Lithuania signal the end for freedom of movement?

When the moral case is made for high levels of immigration, the negative impact of mass emigration on the countries left behind always seems to be forgotten.

By Stuart Gardner | 26 November 2016 | 121 comments

Britain may need to join that European army after all

Trump’s words on NATO and his record to date suggest that we should tear up the rule book.

By Paul Goodman | 13 November 2016 | 180 comments

Owen Paterson: It’s time for the Government to face up to the grim truth. The NHS simply isn’t fit for purpose.

My think-tank’s new report finds that there are over 46,000 unnecessary deaths each and every year in the UK.

By Owen Paterson MP | 24 October 2016 | 108 comments

Lord Ashcroft: “If they leave, it’s the beginning of the end.“ The view of Brexit from Stockholm and Riga

“The UK is fighting for its citizens and rights. If every country was doing that it wouldn’t be possible to negotiate anything!”

By Lord Ashcroft | 1 March 2016 | 14 comments

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