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Dominic Raab’s departure takes us closer to a wipe-out of five right-wing “brains” who authored a tract published in 2012 under the title “Britannia Unchained”.
Brexit is an existential threat to Conservatism. When it fails, the party will need to ask itself some searching questions.
Lord Frost and others are reinventing a tactic used by the beaten German generals in 1918.
It’s Lord David Frost, but not surprisingly his sixth anniversary speech is long on blather and short on evidence.
ix years after the EU referendum, the United Kingdom is being forced to confront an inconvenient truth: Brexit is a process, not an event. It is emphatically not done. Only now are the consequences of the “oven-ready deal” of which Boris Johnson boasted becoming clear.
Ministers are portraying themselves as victims of a deal they created for Northern Ireland. A classic blame-shifting strategy.
The reality that Leavers are facing is that the promised benefits of Brexit are hard to achieve while the costs are hard to avoid.
As crises mount, the polls show voters turning at last. But the national newspapers that backed Leave – even the two now edited by Remainers – continue to pretend there is nothing wrong.
Fishing rows notwithstanding, much of Europe looks on at the UK’s plight with astonishment – and even, still, sympathy.
For those suffering the damaging after-effects, it is Brexit that's providing the nightmares.
Brexit is barely nine months old but is not ageing well. The ‘fabulous’ deal that Prime Minister Johnson and Brexit negotiator Lord Frost raved about last December, has lost all its shine – especially, it seems, to those who polished it. Having persuaded parliament to vote for it as the lesser of two evils, both Johnson and Frost have fallen out of love with their offspring.
No hint of contrition or constructiveness in article by Lord Frost and Brandon Lewis... just menace.
SDLP’s Brexit spokesman says Frost’s attempts to unpick NI protocol risking investment.
On 7 October last year, there was a defining phone call between Boris Johnson and Angel Merkel.