50 days on: Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal
23/02/2021
Saturday 20 February was the 50th day since Boris Johnson’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into effect. Anyone expecting it to settle all questions, or even most of the details, of how we will do business with the EU from now on will be mightily disappointed.
The recent closure of the Charles Peguy centre is sad but hardly surprising.
The lucrative UK/US trade deal is dead - so will it Liz Truss now press ahead with ripping up parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol?
Northern Ireland’s first minister has paid the price for believing the promises of the hard Brexiteers.
Prime minister personifies British hostility to international democratic norms.
Downing Street has briefed the media that the British government is planning legislation purporting to give the UK the power to renege on the legally-binding Northern Ireland Brexit protocol.
The PM’s greatest ‘untruth’ was about the Northern Irish border – the honest route now is to let voters choose where it should be
Boris Johnson’s real scandal: Brexit
13/07/2022
Not before time, Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the UK’s Conservative Party. The Guardian reports that Johnson’s leadership “toppled under a wave of sleaze allegations and failure to tell the truth.” But his real scandal lies elsewhere — with Brexit.
Three years on, we are covered in the scars of what it has done to this country.
The Northern Ireland protocol row shows the similarities between two former imperial powers intent on regaining lost glory.
The prime minister seeks to game and inflame a state of mind that rejects complex reality in favour of symbols and fantasy.
The prime minister has imperilled peace in Northern Ireland, and every day the economic fallout worsens.
The decision to breach trust again in relation to the Northern Ireland Protocol, by acting unilaterally rather than through the agreed joint procedures, was in obvious contradiction with Frost’s subsequent appeal for good will.
It has not even been five months since the end of the Brexit transition period and there have been armed patrol vessels in the Channel.
EU must continue to monitor and ensure that the British hold up their side of the bargain.
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.
The frontrunner for Tory Party leader is known for taking maximalist positions and playing to her base. That approach would backfire on Northern Ireland.
Liz Truss may find out the hard way what it’s like to be held hostage by hardline Brexiteers
03/08/2022
Brexit’s Northern Ireland deal needs the same hard-headed pragmatism that secured Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release.
A summit crucial to the issue of climate change is instead mired in disentangling the mess of Britain’s exit from the EU
Special trade arrangements are crucial to peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland. Yet Brexiters in London refuse to see that.
Trade has plummeted and red tape has blocked our borders. Is that what ‘protecting our sovereignty’ meant?
One of the greatest political achievements of our time is at risk of becoming a casualty of a Brexit neither country voted for in the first place, writes Emma DeSouza.
Boris Johnson’s plans to shred the Northern Ireland protocol have no basis in law, economics or diplomacy.
The Tories are upping their attack on our democracy, under cover of the leadership contest
19/07/2022
Deep within the Northern Ireland protocol bill, ministers are making a sinister grab for yet more unchecked powers.