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Guy Hands said the Conservatives need to re-negotiate the "completely hopeless" Brexit deal.
Brexit’s harvest
27/10/2022
Brexit-induced labour shortages are going to be a limiting factor in the pursuit of growth, growth, growth
A bill to remove EU-derived laws that include 570 environmental regulations will cause serious ecological harm, charities and MPs have warned.
Try and find an instance of the market reacting to tax cuts anywhere else on Earth the way it reacted to the UK’s mere mention of such a simple policy. The market usually loves tax cuts. Not this time. Why?
Guy Hands says Conservatives are putting country ‘on a path to be sick man of Europe’.
Brexit Curse Afflicts Britain
23/10/2022
Since the EU Referendum proposed and led by former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, on the relationship with the EU, Britain has not experienced political stability. This headed to economic stagnation, inflation, high unemployment, frustration, and pessimism among British citizens about the future.
Some experts link Liz Truss’s downfall to the ripple effect of Britain’s departure from the European Union and the bitter, ideologically opposed factions it created in her party.
Brexit crippled the UK economy – Liz Truss just made it worse | Economics | New Statesman [5 mins]
22/10/2022
Economist Duncan Weldon and the New Statesman’s polling expert explore how Brexit and austerity have damaged the UK economy and set the stage for Liz Truss’s “mismanagement.”
The best Ireland can hope for in a Britain untethered from reality is a quiet deal on access to the EU, but we might have to wait.
The current turmoil in Westminster is the climax of a "six-year long Brexit psychodrama", Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster says.
Observers suggest PM’s failure could spell end of ‘wishful thinking’ of a sovereign Britain going its own way. / Six years on from the Brexit referendum, continental observers have become used to Westminster meltdowns – but many see in the latest cataclysm the inevitable finale of a project that was always divorced from reality.
Not satisfied, though, the U.K.'s conservatives may look to replace her with... Boris Johnson.
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Financial Times political editor George Parker about the continuing effects Brexit has had on U.K. politics and the economy.
The Brexit cult that blew up Britain
21/10/2022
For a small band of libertarians, Liz Truss’ resignation is the final act in an 11-year project to remake Britain.
Conservative Party ‘drained of all substance and competence’.
‘Brexit has devoured its own children’ says Welsh politics professor after Liz Truss resignation
20/10/2022
A Welsh politics professor has said that “Brexit has devoured its own children” after the Conservative party lost four Prime Ministers since the vote in 2016.
A future leader will need to confront Brexiters in the same way Blair faced down the hard left over clause 4.
Only the reversal of Brexit can start to fix the state three prime ministers have left the country in.
One word led us here… Brexit
18/10/2022
The collapse of Liz Truss’s authority is the logical conclusion of the anti-EU cult that has wrecked Britain’s economy over the last six years. / When asked about Brexit, Carney managed to sound diplomatic while also lobbing a hand grenade. “Put it this way,” he said. “In 2016 the British economy was 90% the size of Germany’s. Now it is less than 70%.”
Without the government to enforce the lie, Brexit will become just an embarrassing national memory
16/10/2022
Brexit has gone from xenophobic delusion to national embarrassment, sustained only by lies from government and press. We will rejoin the EU.
After years of denying the downsides of Britain’s split from the European Union, the Brexit taboo is starting to lift in the governing Conservative Party and the country’s right-wing press.
Conservatism is an enduring and honourable political creed that has been debased and discredited by incompetent extremists.
Less than two weeks after her government plunged the markets into crisis with a disastrous budget, Prime Minister Liz Truss used her closing speech at the Conservative Party conference to blame the meltdown on a nebulous anti-growth coalition.
Is the Brexit ideology running out of road?
16/10/2022
Many Conservative party members will be wondering where they go from here. / There is talk of damage limitation and trying to save as many seats as possible in the next election.
EU fingerprint checks and travel chaos expected next summer as SNP blame Brexit 2 hrs ago
13/10/2022
FINGERPRINT checks set to be introduced on the EU border could cause significant disruption to holidaymakers, industry experts have warned.