Talk of more competition can be naïve if the choice simply amounts to either buying from a national monopoly or making an off-the-shelf purchase from the USA.
The benefits of this simple approach are that we can settle this debate now rather than condemn our country to years more argument.
It would need unanimous agreement. Looking at each of the 27’s varying comments, there are six distinct camps of opinion.
A response to Jean-Claude Piris and others who argue that the idea simply won’t fly.
The immediate effect of the election will be a period of fraught negotiation, but it might not be a bad change in the long-term.
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.
Any eventual review of drugs policy as a whole must focus on collective consequences rather than individual rights.
The “extraordinary international response by our allies” amounts to “the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers ever”, Johnson says.
The Treasury should be saved from itself by bringing the Party Chairman in to scrutinise the Autumn Budget before it is finalised.
The old hatred has been ushered in by a toxic mix of Islamism, anti-immigrant populism and far-leftism. Liberalism must fight back.
We cannot be the tired heavyweight in the twilight of their career landing a few punches. We need the energy and urgency of the underdog to go on the attack.
The simultaneous creation and collapse of a new force has been written off an establishment failure. The truth is more interesting.
Doing so would improve social integration, enhance the contribution that migrants make, and allay public discontent over immigration.