Brexit

The whole point of the referendum to leave the EU was for the Westminster Parliament to gain back control of law making so that the British government not Brussels could…

The conservative case for Brexit is unimpeachable, but has the Covid-19 crisis shown that the UK public has lost the ability to make it work? Let us take those in…

Confirmation on Friday that the Government had formally told the EU that it would not extend the transition period beyond the end of 2020 was very welcome news. It has…

Watching EU Brexit negotiator M. Barnier handle the press these days is neither an uplifting experience, nor is it an agreeable one. But it is, perhaps, an understandable one. Since…

“Lord, make me chaste – but not yet,” St Augustine famously said, as he sought to postpone his appointment with Christ’s demanding moral code. Much the same can be said…

Boris Johnson faces another date with destiny. In a few months, the poor man has already seen off Jeremy Corbyn, the EU and its massed ranks of domestic fifth columnists,…

Covid’s shadow has passed from the negotiating table, and so the Brexit talks have resumed. ‘Time and tide wait for no man’, as the saying goes. That dictum finds its…

Professor Robert Tombs is a Fellow of the new Centre for Brexit Policy think tank. This is the preface of their launch document.

Now that Brexit has finally been done, it is vital that Boris Johnson’s new government quickly grasps all the policy opportunities that are there in the post-Brexit environment.  They are…

You would have to have lived in a cave for the best part of the last decade not to have been aware of Brexit.  The subject has consumed British politics…