Articles tagged Brexit:
Our finest hour is yet to come
- 19 Dec 2022
Rarely, in recent times, has the refrain in the bleak midwinter resonated more. My grandparents used to recall the long freezing winter of 1947, when food rationing was still in force and wartime deprivation remained a grim reality as the worst they experienced. I can, just, r...
Brexit right or wrong will be a big issue at the next election
- 17 Nov 2022
Amidst the intense interest in the Autumn Statement much other news, political and otherwise, has been squeezed out of the headlines. Fatigue too plays a large part in how close an eye we keep on things. We know catching covid can be serious and unpleasant but we are all fed u...
Review: Greater: Britain After The Storm by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis (Biteback), £20
- 25 May 2021
It is rare for a serving senior Minister to publish a book while in office, and what a book it is. Before you even reach the first chapter, there is a veritable Becher’s Brook of bedazzling “names” saying how wonderful it is – Boris Johnson, Tony Blair, Elton John, Richard Cur...
Brexit is proving to be a brutal experience for all our institutions including the Church of England
- 11 Oct 2019
Like a great scythe Brexit slices its way through our national life, from Parliament to the courts, the civil service to civil society, no institution or organisation, public or private, is left untouched – including the nation’s Church, the Church of England. Brexit is, and w...
Putting Britain back together after the Brexit crisis will not be easy
- 22 Jan 2019
As each day passes a new snippet of detail, via an interview with a former aide or a passing comment by an old colleague, sheds more light on how David Cameron came to call and subsequently lose the Brexit Referendum. What is emerging is not a picture of political confidence a...