As predicted, Rachel Reeves follows a route to disaster
By Bob Lyddon – 6 minute read A VOTE FOR LABOUR was always going to be a no-risk action – as my Global Britain paper suggested, the result was certain disaster. Now it unfolds...
Does our ‘reformed EU’ not give us the best of both worlds?
By Catherine McBride – 5 minute read AT THE TIME of the referendum, many Remainers were calling for the UK to Remain in a ‘reformed’ EU. Ironically, the UK seems to have found itself there...
A post mortem of lockdown costs – a timely analysis from the Tax Payers’ Alliance
by Ewen Stewart – 4 minute read. THE Tax Payers Alliance has published a timely and rigorous report giving hard data to support many of the articles that have occurred on these pages over the last few years.
#55 Brexit allows the UK to ban the import of Foie Gras made from force-fed Geese
On 4th June Labour announced it would follow suit on a promised but undelivered Conservative pledge, to ban the sale in the UK of imported Foie Gras made using the traditional method of force-feeding Geese. Such a ban is impossible without leaving the EU Single Market.
#54 Leaving the EU allowed the UK to completely avoid the EU Migration Pact
The new EU Migration Pact mandates each member state takes its share of at least 30,000 asylum relocations a year, or pays €20,000 for each one refused. The UK share, 13%, would have been at least 3,900 a year - or €78m, but potentially 124,000 people or £2.5bn in 2022.