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Entries in the famous Davis Downside Dossier hit the one thousand mark this week – and still counting.
The men behind Trussonomics and Brexit, the two great man-made catastrophes of recent years, are to be honoured for their ‘great work’.
The Retained EU Law Bill would scrap over 4,000 pieces of legislation. / Rishi Sunak has started to retreat from plans to push forward the potentially disastrous Retained EU Law bill, one report has claimed.
David Davis suggested the turn in fortunes could be because the UK media have stopped “kicking Brussels all the time”.
Former PM in four-letter tirade against Sunak’s new Brexit deal.
Brexit: reckless, a colossal mistake and the result of a fatally flawed referendum – part 2
19/02/2023
All this past week, Jon Danzig has been posting videos reminding us of the fatal flaws in the Brexit referendum and demonstrating that it was a sham.
The former Brexit secretary has dismissed as ‘propaganda’ frequent references to his comments in 2016 about Brexit having no downsides.
Boris Johnson agreed in the final hours of the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations that there would be customs declarations on goods exiting Northern Ireland to Britain, despite the fact that just three weeks later he told businesses in the North there would be "no forms, no checks, no barriers of any kind…," according to a detailed new account of the protocol negotiations.
The BBC’s Analysis editor Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the government’s plan to scrap thousands of EU-era laws.
Plans to scrap all remaining EU-made laws in the UK by the end of the year have cleared the Commons amid criticism from a senior Brexiteer that the process is not democratic and “possibly incompetent”.
First came Brexit. Now comes Britain’s bonfire of European laws. / Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is pushing ahead with a contentious plan to remove all remaining European Union laws from Britain’s statute book by the end of 2023, despite opponents’ claims that the move is rash and unworkable.
The MPs have joined a cross-party group calling on ministers to declare which Brussels-made rules will be removed from British statute books.
Ministers are facing a clash with opposition and Conservative MPs over their plans to scrap EU-era laws copied over to UK law after Brexit.
‘The project is probably now unsalvageable’, says former PM’s old employer. / The Conservatives have made such a “hash” of Brexit that the project is probably “unsalvageable”, according to Boris Johnson’s favourite newspaper.
The MPs have joined a cross-party group calling on ministers to declare which Brussels-made rules will be removed from British statute books.
"Good to see the BBC wading into the fray at last, now that the damage it's causing is too great to conceal", one person said.
Northern Ireland minister’s proposal comes after PM denied plans for Swiss-style relationship with EU.
Michael Gove has failed to name a single change from Brexit that has “made business easier”, as criticism of the economic harm from the trade deal grows.
Brexit brings a blight, not a boon
22/11/2022
We need the word “rejoin“ to have the same weight and significance as the word “Brexit“.
Brexit has failed to deliver any notable economic benefits, more than six years after the vote to leave the EU, David Davis has admitted.
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%.”
"I often wonder whether, in the privacy of their own homes, they replay the claims and promises they made and compare it with the outcomes delivered."
Is Brexit to blame for Dover chaos?
25/07/2022
UK and French officials in war of words as holidaymakers hit by long delays.