Starmer can’t dodge the Europe question for ever. In office, the economy will answer it for him
18/04/2024
Closer alignment between a Labour government and the EU is a certainty. But the divisive binary choices of 2016 are ancient history.
The price of the Tories’ new border regime beggars belief. In a cost of living crisis, it’s a bill we can’t afford.
Brexit's the elephant in the room that can be avoided no longer when quitting the European Union plunges a Disunited United Kingdom deeper into economic horror.
Fake it till you make it has been the guiding maxim of British government policy for national renewal since Brexit.
Forget austerity, we need to reverse Brexit if we are to enjoy any form of economic growth
17/10/2022
Keir Starmer must be brave and try and reunite us in some way with the rest of our continent.
In historical terms, however, those transgressions will end up being little more than footnotes. Viewed from afar, Johnson’s greatest failing is liable to be what he hoped would be his glorious legacy: Brexit.
No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.
Tories fall back on tribal pull of Brexit
27/03/2022
After Rishi Sunak’s spring statement, the party can no longer rely on the economy to bolster support, so old battle lines are being redrawn.
An island nation must trade with its nearest mainland, whatever our new Brexit opportunities minister claims.
Johnson is at the mercy of his cabinet. The trouble is, as Leavers, none of them will face up to our post-EU crisis either
The prime minister wants to keep the issue that won him the last election alive until the next one, and so misrepresents Keir Starmer’s position as wanting to take the UK back into the EU.
Amid political quagmire, Starmer must kill false narrative about EU intransigence.