By Christina Jordan – 3 minute read – THIS FRIDAY, 23rd of June, marks the seventh anniversary of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. The costs, to British taxpayers, of delivering the referendum was £129.1 million, with 46,500,001 people voting, a turnout of 72.21%.
Global Britain director Ewen Stewart was one of an impressive array of speakers at the Bruges Group conference held at the Royal Over-Seas League on Saturday 1o November. Ewen presented the recent Global Britain paper, Chequers: the Single Market by another name and took questions afterwards. The large lively audience was both attentive and supportive and gave a [...]
By Scott MacNab, The Scotsman, 5th September 2018 The Tories could see last year’s general election gains in Scotland reversed if a snap vote was held on the Prime Minister’s Chequers deal on Brexit, new polling indicates. Ayr, Gordon and Stirling would all be lost to the SNP, according to a poll by marketing research [...]
by Steven Swinford, Deputy Political Editor, 3rd September 2018 The majority of voters in the Conservatives' most marginal constituencies believe Theresa May's Chequers plan is "bad for Britain", a new poll has found as critics warned it is now more hated than the poll tax. A survey of 22,000 voters in the Conservatives' 44 most marginal [...]
Boris was wrong – EU membership costs £980 million per week and we are exposed to a further £1 trillion of other liabilities NEW RESEARCH by city financial expert Bob Lyddon, published by Global Britain [The Brexit Papers #8; The true cost of EU Membership], puts the weekly cost of continued EU membership at £980 million a [...]
