Set out your own red lines on free movement, frictionless trade and other questions, to find out which of the much-discussed Brexit options could get your approval. Will it be WTO, Canada or Norway plus? Continue reading…
Set out your own red lines on free movement, frictionless trade and other questions, to find out which of the much-discussed Brexit options could get your approval. Will it be WTO, Canada or Norway plus?
Continue reading...Using the latest technology, I’ve got my hands on a textbook from the year 2070. And it isn’t very complimentaryIt’s always odd when politicians make an appeal to “the history books” – it’s like an actor making an appeal to reviewers midway through the…
It’s always odd when politicians make an appeal to “the history books” – it’s like an actor making an appeal to reviewers midway through the film. But it took on a new surreal meaning on Monday, when Theresa May asked us to consider what the history books would say about the vote on her deal.
It takes truly great commitment to your own mediocrity to sort through a catalogue of your own mistakes, find the largest and most avoidable, and then tell the gods of history that yep, this national humiliation is the way you want future generations to remember you. It’s like calling up the Oxford English Dictionary and requesting that “to cock something up irrevocably, to the point that people feel a pang of despair when they hear your name” be for ever known as “doing a Theresa”.
Continue reading...Decision leaves region, which had received €450m of EU funds, with no voice in EuropeA Brussels office that acts as conduit for hundreds of millions of pounds worth of EU funds for the east of England is to shut because councillors have pulled the plug…
Decision leaves region, which had received €450m of EU funds, with no voice in Europe
A Brussels office that acts as conduit for hundreds of millions of pounds worth of EU funds for the east of England is to shut because councillors have pulled the plug on the relatively small subsidy they give to it.
The closure of the Brussels office of the East of England Local Government Association (LGA) has been described as premature and “ideological” at a time when doubts still persist about the type of Brexit that will materialise.
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