Professor Anthony Coughlan, Associate Professor Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin, explains why the Irish backstop is a trap designed to bind the UK to the EU with no means of escape, and what the UK can do […]
Fishing for Leave (FFL) is calling for the abhorrent practice of electric pulse fishing to be banned in British waters post-Brexit. In this article, FFL also details six other important fisheries reforms that a newly-sovereign UK government must adopt in […]
UK shipyards, steelyards and specialist defence industry would be better off if the Government were to leave an EU directive which effectively sends UK defence work to the cheapest bidder abroad. Major-General Tim Cross says the Government must therefore scrap its current proposal to […]
Nigel Moore shows how May’s deal and no-deal are far from the only options for a timely Brexit on 29 March 2019. There is always another way if the political will is present on both sides. With the use of […]
The EU is used to accommodating unorthodox borders. It has found pragmatic solutions in the past – none of which required the external party to yield in its customs arrangements. Given these precedents, the EU’s continued insistence on a Northern […]
The Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign (LESC) has concluded that “a ‘no deal’ Brexit is becoming an increasingly likely prospect”, but a UK-EU free-trade agreement is likely to follow in due course. In its latest bulletin, LESC analyses other possible outcomes – […]
