With growing problems at home, many member states are at odds with the Commission’s punitive line on Brexit.
He is a talented populist and looks set to do well in next week’s Dutch election. The question is what he will do then.
Without that difference, Brexit would not have happened.
He could commit to some tangible metrics – i.e: reducing the tax code in length by 25 per cent by 2019, or pledging to abolish three taxes in each budget.
France’s choice, then: economic (global) liberalism, versus (communitarian) promises of welfarism and border control. Remind you of anything?
A fundamental clash between cosmopolitanism and communitarianism is taking place – and it cuts across Left and Right.
I can just about imagine why a gay Parisian might just decide to send an unequivocal message to the Left at the next election.
One historical study has found that, on average, authoritarian parties surge by around 30 per cent as the economic consequences play out.
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.
Its winner may well face Marine Le Pen in next year’s presidential showdown
The polls predict a comfortable win for her opponent. But this far out the polls also predicted Remain and Clinton would win.
“I cannot let you say something so insulting,” she tells Marr, who quotes her father dismissing the Holocaust as “a detail of history”.
Indiscriminate attacks on Parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, the media and business are anti-meritocratic and nihilistic, which should trouble those on the Right.
The odds against Marine Le Pen have shortened significantly – her economic collectivism is popular.