Showing:
◈ Iain Duncan Smith×
As part of our special edition looking at five years since the EU referendum, Alastair Campbell looks at the silence of the Leavers.
Video resurfaces of Iain Duncan Smith trying to stop MPs scrutinising Brexit agreement he now wants rewritten
05/08/2020
Footage has resurfaced of a Tory Brexiteer praising Boris Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement bill and trying to prevent MPs from scrutinising the document - days after calling for it to be rewritten.
Use Brexit to grow GM crops, bring back imperial measurements and scrap GDPR, taskforce urges
15/06/2021
The newly created Taskforce for Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform has identified more than 100 ‘Brexit dividends’.
The European Commission and the UK government has agreed on requirements for the labelling on agri-food retail goods. The label will be placed at different levels starting from individual, box, shelf signs and posters.
New border checks in Kent and elsewhere reverse 47 years of removal of trade barriers.
Rejection of regular EU talks and Horizon dithering prove the PM is running scared of his party’s lunatic fringe.
Tory Brexiteers' claim that WTO rules let them pull a rabbit out of the hat is pure magical thinking
02/09/2019
Does the World Trade Organization (WTO) have a magic legal provision, one that Britain can use to get out of the “no-deal” Brexit jail?
Iain Duncan Smith is accused of "repeating tired, old nonsense" following an attack on the Confederation of British Industry. / Theresa May has witnessed another attack by a Tory Brexiteer on business after former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith linked the UK's biggest business lobby group to Nazi appeasement.
The pound’s latest collapse is a symptom, but Britain’s decline has been going on for years
30/09/2022
The spectacular collapse of the pound against the US dollar has shattered the illusion that Britain is entitled in perpetuity to special status among the world elite.
The era of Flat Earth Conservatism
11/10/2023
The Tory Party has been taken over by cynics and fantasists, says former Telegraph editor Max Hastings – which is why he has decided to vote Labour.
Stab-in-the-back: the nasty old myth that Brexiters are exploiting to explain away the disaster
25/06/2022
Lord Frost and others are reinventing a tactic used by the beaten German generals in 1918.
Remember When These Tories Said They Liked The Northern Ireland Protocol, Before Ripping It Up?
28/02/2023
But, it’s worth remembering that all of the Conservatives who are now praising the Windsor Framework (Sunak’s tweaked version of the Northern Ireland Protocol) once extended the same excitement to Johnson’s original deal in 2019...
Just a third of people who voted to leave the European Union in 2016 now think Brexit was a success, according to a new poll.
Supporters of Brexit are “completely wrong” if they think recourse to an obscure trade rule will stop tariffs springing up overnight if Britain leaves the European Union without a deal, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on Friday.
Major's Foresight on Brexit [10 mins]
03/03/2023
What the former Prime Minister warned BEFORE the referendum.
Iain Duncan Smith says he doesn’t ‘see the point’ in Brexit forecasts day ‘doomsday dossier’ warns of food and power shortages
24/08/2020
Staunch Brexiteer Iain Duncan Smith (IDS) has said he does not “see the point” in Brexit forecasts on the day a government report warned the UK faced food, fuel and power shortages if a no-deal Brexit and second coronavirus wave coincided.
Iain Duncan Smith has been branded a “dunce” by a prominent historian, after he compared Brexit to the Reformation in a column extolling the benefits of leaving the EU.
How the UK lost the Brexit battle
27/04/2019
The course of Brexit was set in the hours and days after the 2016 referendum. / It was at 6:22 a.m. on June 24, 2016 — 59 minutes before the official tally was unveiled — that the European Council sent its first “lines to take” to the national governments that make up the EU.
Hardline European Research Group branded ‘a corruption of Conservatism’ by senior Tory MP
06/08/2020
Organisation which drove UK to a hard Brexit made up of ‘climate change deniers’ and ‘Trump sympathisers’, new book is told.
Germany’s foreign minister says Boris Johnson must be more ‘realistic and pragmatic’ if he wants a trade deal
06/08/2020
Flagging trade talks have seen little progress.
Pascal Lamy less than subtle with his hand gestures and eye-roll on live TV.