Lessons from my recent visit to India with Andy Street and Sir John Peace, Chair of the Midlands Engine Partnership.
Our new fortnightly columnist on a renaissance which “through teamwork and shared vision, is producing real results”.
Now we will find out if the EU really is seeking practical progress, or if it is cynically exploiting the issue as a way to seek leverage.
Anyone claiming the UK can negotiate meaningful free trade deals while locking itself into the EU rulebook is propagating a delusion.
But more money and powers need to be given directly to the North to drive further progress.
Forget delusions of grandeur, memories of empire, or fantasies of running an EU superstate – let’s focus on setting a good example.
As he battled the agri-barons, and Thatcher battled the union barons, so we must champion the underdog against the corporatist barons of today.
We re-run the author’s series on what might be done for the UK to be Ready on Day One.
We re-run the author’s series on what might be done for the UK to be Ready on Day One.
Economic, historic and familial links can be further bolstered by the appointment of the right individual to help to boost trade.
The myth has it that there never was such a plan – in fact, DexEU had a proposal to fulfil its promise of no ‘hard border’ while still overseeing a proper customs regime.
The MoD should use the opportunity of Brexit to reflect on whether EU competition rules should continue to apply to procurement.
Any Cabinet member who throws their toys out of the pram at Chequers will receive a cold shoulder in the tearoom.
At the moment, we are treading water and appear to be relying on popular support for Brexit, and the threat of Corbyn, to keep us in office.