By Ewen Stewart, Director of Global Britain. Global Britain is pleased to publish a major paper by David Murrin Now or Never – UK Strategic Defence Review 2020. You can find the paper on our Reports page here. David Murrin's paper is a major contribution to the debate on Britain's future role in the world from [...]
by Ewen Stewart DO YOU REMEMBER that David Cameron’s Government claimed a vote to leave the EU would immediately hit GDP by 5% and cost 500,000 jobs? Global Britain was one of only a tiny number of economic observers to argue this was, well, bunkum. We said the economic impact would be minimal in the short [...]
by Ewen Stewart, Brexit Central, 4th November 2017 One does not need a long memory to recall the persistent and dire warnings that if the UK voted to leave the EU, in June 2016, there would be an immediate sharp recession and subsequent collapse in employment. HM Treasury official guidance to voters, in a letter sent [...]
by IT LOOKS increasingly likely that the warning from former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was correct. Speaking of how his country was treated by the EU during its bail-out negotiations, he warned the UK to expect every dirty trick in the book to subvert a fair deal. The early omens are not good and [...]
by WE HAVE SEEN in recent days and weeks a number of terrorist atrocities in the UK. Our thoughts and prayers must go to those so brutally effected by the actions of these perverted individuals. Rightly such shocking terrorism acts changes the focus of the debate, however, while making our streets safe must be the [...]
