We reproduce here a presentation with accompanying slides given by Lt Gen Jonathon Riley at 61 Whitehall on Monday 2 September 2019. It shows how UK ministers have been signing us up to pillars of the European Defence Union after […]
Fishing for Leave’s John Ashworth explains why the transition period contained in the Withdrawal Agreement is such a big threat to the future of our fisheries. As things stand, only a clean break Brexit will enable us to use the people’s […]
CIB committee member Michael McGough offers some thoughts on the ongoing Irish backstop conundrum. As if a Brexit-blocking parliament isn’t enough, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still faced with an intransigent Leo Varadkar and his career Euro-federalists, who are more […]
CIB vice-chairman Anthony Scholefield writes on one of the dangers of the still-not-dead withdrawal agreement that is rarely commented on: the fact that it does not end the UK’s exposure to EU liabilities and contingent liabilities. With the Eurozone in […]
Fishing for Leave’s John Ashworth examines the tremendous hand the UK has to play on fisheries, provided the draft Withdrawal Agreement is abandoned. We should be reasonable, but not a pushover. It is absolutely essential that we assert our whole […]
CIB’s website editor, political scientist Dr Anna Bailey, considers recent claims that the constitution can be used to prevent a no-deal Brexit. She finds that, while it is not impossible for Parliament to block no-deal, constitutional law and convention grant […]
