The dinosaurs are back! Two of them recently roared into life to suggest that one day the UK might join the euro. First came Lord Liddle, Labour’s main EU spokesman in the upper house, said it would be “pragmatic common […]
It is now six months since elections to the European Parliament returned the highest percentage ever of EU-critical MEPs of varying hues. Since then, for the UK electorate, the focus has been on UK withdrawal and the torrid time David […]
FROM THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE LORD STODDART OF SWINDON (Independent Labour) In response to a written question from the independent Labour Peer, Lord Stoddart of Swindon (Hansard 02.12.14), the Government has confirmed that the UK’s annual trade deficit with […]
As predicted, David Cameron’s much-vaunted speech about immigration was a damp squib – anything but a “game changer”. Given that the Prime Minister is believed to have cleared the speech with Auntie Angela in Berlin beforehand, anyone hoping for a […]
A decade ago, supporters of EU membership might have got away with dismissing their opponents as mavericks and eccentrics whose objectives were opposed by all the big names in politics and the business community. Not any more. In the last […]
Concerns about immigration have been widely reported in coverage of the Rochester and Strood by-election. Mark Reckless found himself at odds with his new party’s official position when he appeared to suggest that he favoured repatriating European workers who had […]
