AfD doesn’t need to win the next election to trigger a meltdown – just keep its national support rising toward the 25 per cent mark, where the mathematics of building stable coalition governments stops working.
Too many MPs and civil servants have fought to prevent the UK doing things differently, seeking to keep us tied to the EU whatever the costs.
Or does Brussels propose to put up with Orban’s provocations and allow him to assume next year the presidency of the EU?
The former Liberal Democrat leader tells Camilla Tominey that re-joining the EU is an unrealistic proposition and that the UK should instead focus on building new relationships with the bloc.
By stripping back the planned repeal of EU laws, she hopes to get the Bill royal assent as soon as possible, rather than see it bogged down in the House of Lords.
Around three quarters of all transatlantic cables in the northern hemisphere pass through or near its waters – yet Dublin spends just 0.2 per cent of GDP on defence.
Unfortunately for the Prime Minister, he looks set to be left banging the drum for free trade just as the rest of the world is changing its tune.
The Northern Ireland Secretary says the change to applying EU law is not just a delaying mechanism. But adds that he expects Assembly members “would not use the power trivially.”
The Leader of the House of Commons says that it demonstrates that the deal has to deliver “the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom.”
A solution that addresses unionist concerns and wins back cross-community consensus for any new governance framework is the only way to achieve the aims of the Protocol that the EU and UK signed up for in the first place
EU regulations and directives do form a major block of domestic law and do generate a lot of business costs. We know this because Whitehall’s own past internal audits have revealed it, a field I have been tracking since John Major’s day.
The average voter in the Red Wall cares more about the NHS, surging bills, and small boats than they do the exact regulatory environment chemical companies currently face.
On 29 November, the EU is convening a high-level meeting on ‘legal pathways’ with member states, the US, Canada and the UK invited. I very much hope that the UK will attend.
Growing tensions with Turkey risk Ankara once again lifting border controls and placing huge pressure on the European frontier.
The longer this process takes, the more it will hang over the general election. Far better to enact reforms this year than let this issue drag on.