I’m travelling around the country asking the public what their priorities really are. This review should be the People’s review.
Plus: No, the Trump-Kim Jong Un summit wasn’t altogether a failure. And: Costa should get his old job back.
Others would say that the appointment of a profoundly business-friendly Home Secretary was bound to lead to a weakening of immigration policy.
The “Common Rulebook” approach is an ostacle to signing up to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
It is absurd that every year we send home thousands of young Australians who would prefer to stay here, and Australia does the same with thousands of young Brits.
We shouldn’t be glued as a vassal state to a declining European market.
We don’t claim that the EU would accept it – but neither will the Commission nor the 27 necessarily accept the Prime Minister’s new plan.
Any exceptions for those with job offers would simply be flimsy camouflage for a wholesale retreat and for the abandonment of a major pledge to the British public.
They meet in no man’s land. The two countries are still technically at war. It is the most surprising political meeting of modern times.
Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.
Hardish in principle, softer in detail, she is crafting a position intended to get those elusive trade talks going as soon as possible.
This approach fully honours the referendum result. The UK would leave the EU in a manner that minimises disruption.
“Why is anyone arguing for this bizarre outcome?” If some are proposing it as a way to transition back into the EU, they should be honest enough to say so.
While trade deals have taken on an important political and symbolic value, their benefits are typically smaller and slower to materialise than many realise.