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 [...]
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 Brian Monteith, CityAM, 5th April 2017 Why all the alarm that the Brexit waters are getting choppier? Advocates of leaving, like myself, never denied the EU would play tough in any negotiations; it is what one would expect for the opening gambits of any hard-nosed business deal. And that’s what it is, a deal. [...]
by Brian Monteith, The Edinburgh Evening News, Friday 31st March 2017 Finally, after nine months of court cases, political grandstanding, parliamentary votes, demonstrations and international jet-setting the EU has been served notice. The legal process of leaving the EU has begun and the resulting spectacle of double standards provides more entertainment than the BBC licence fee. Nicola Sturgeon tweets [...]
