My former Conservative colleagues: ask yourselves what Boris Johnson has achieved, and heed the damning answer
Boris Johnson’s rotten regime has not covered itself in glory. / For an un-jaundiced sense of how post-Brexit – sorry Global – Britain is viewed from abroad as the wheels fall off Boris Johnson’s rotten regime, Italy is a good place to start.
The leaders of our political parties cannot go on hiding from the damage to our economy, our reputation in the world and the frustration of our younger generation, writes Lord Michael Heseltine.
As the June extension deadline looms, the prime minister’s priority will be to minimise damage to his personal brand and legacy.
There is an air of desperation in attacks from those on the right and their supporters in the press. They fear if Johnson falls, the Brexit deception will crumble too.
We unionists who foresaw that Brexit would cause problems at the Northern Ireland border were ignored
14/05/2022
'I keep hearing my fellow unionists complaining that their anger over the existence of the Northern Ireland Protocol is not being recognised or taken seriously.'
Only a third of Leavers still see it as a success. So why won’t Starmer speak up?
To make Brexit happen, Boris needs to work with the Eurocrats he’s insulted. Fat chance they’ll help him now
08/08/2019
As our prime minister and the no-deal zealots of his cabinet revel in Brexit brinkmanship it is worth recalling the legal realities of what threatens to be our post Halloween world.
Whether it’s the monarchy, the union or the BBC, today’s Tories are trampling on the values they once claimed to cherish.
During her meeting with the Prime Minister on Monday though, Nicola Sturgeon spotted that No Deal is not a bluff, but Johnson’s real aim. I think she’s right.
The ‘remoaner elite’, the civil service, the BBC, universities, unions, refugees: anything is blamed but Brexit itself.
No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.
The key goal of the government is to placate the right by sustaining foreign quarrels.
‘Global Britain’ can only become a reality if Johnson rebuilds his links with European partners.
‘Global Britain’ can only become a reality if Johnson rebuilds his links with European partners.
This project is a symbol not of Britain’s greatness but of arrogance, delusion and deliberately engineered division.
The Johnson-Cummings war on the civil service is very troubling. It looks like the start of a rolling coup against institutions
29/06/2020
The corruption of constitutional order can happen very quickly and reversing it can take a very long time and at huge cost.
The contest to succeed Theresa May shows that British illusions persist.
The increasingly shrill nature of the rhetoric around Brexit is a worrying development that has the potential to do as much damage to Irish-British relations in the longer term as the practical consequences of the process itself.
Boris Johnson’s plans to shred the Northern Ireland protocol have no basis in law, economics or diplomacy.
Boris Johnson’s government is waging a war of words not against the EU but the British people.
An island nation must trade with its nearest mainland, whatever our new Brexit opportunities minister claims.
This week’s violence is an ominous sign that leaving the EU took a wrecking ball to the Good Friday agreement.
The Brexiteer pledge to ‘take back control’ of the UK’s borders has been exposed as hollow
14/08/2020
The supreme irony is that, despite all those Vote Leave promises, Brexit is making it harder to control UK borders.
Rishi Sunak's triumphalism over solutions on Northern Ireland and migrant boats ignores the fact the issues only arose because of Johnson's flawed Brexit deal - which he endorsed.