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 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 [...]
THE Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham will be all about Brexit - and here's the proof! Below Global Britain lists all the various fringe meetings taking place (and we've probably missed some!) – aiming to discuss how to ensure Brexit means Brexit – or in some cases to try and stop it (Grrr!) If you are going you [...]
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 [...]
