No, it isn’t racism. Nor is it economic consequences. Nor even the impact on
public services. Rather, it cuts to the heart of why countries exist at all.
“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”
The most successful ones will be those that maintain their partnerships in Europe, but also look farther afield to forge new associations across the globe.
Quitting it would mean more scope for trade deals and lower prices. Modern countries don’t need such unions to do business.
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States are a huge market, and all have close cultural ties to the UK.
Are the fundamental tenets of freedom – that of association, expression, and worship – being maintained to their fullest extent? Some would say not.
A six-point guide to the obvious, if only more people would see it.
Bill English, his successor, worked co-operatively with him and Wayne Eagleson. There’s a lesson here for Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.
To defeat populists on the right, liberal conservatives must show that immigration, like globalisation, benefits this country and its people,
Plus: John Rees-Evans’s bizarrre views. May’s flourishing line in jokes. Trump’s chances of winning. And: let Article 50 be put to a vote in Parliament and let’s get on with it.
The widespread presumption that everything is a matter for negotiation is damaging nonsense. Once we identify the issues which we can decide, Ministers can start taking decisions.
“As we leave the EU, Britain will seek to become the global leader in free trade.”
To date, she has seen foreign affairs through the prism of domestic security rather than that of intervention abroad.
By forming a free movement agreement between our nations, we would effectively create a single labour market servicing the world’s third largest combined economy.
Our democratic rules have not kept pace with the changing nature of the Union.