Staying in the European Arrest Warrant is a compromise too far
This weekend Theresa May is set to make an important speech setting out Britain’s future relationship with the EU after Brexit. In it she will pledge to keep the UK under the jurisdiction of the...
View ArticleBeware the European threat to the UK’s defence autonomy
Brexiteers have repeatedly pointed out the scale and ambitions of EU defence integration. The formation of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), so far involving 25 Member States, has escalated...
View ArticleBeware the output of defence and security think-tanks funded by the European...
In AD 1003, the city of Exeter learned a harsh lesson. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle informs us that the reeve (or local bigwig) was a man named Hugh. Hugh, a Frenchman, was looking after it on behalf of...
View ArticleIn so many areas the EU’s negotiating stance is sadly defined by the politics...
The news that Boeing has just opened a £40 million manufacturing facility in Sheffield to make parts for their latest 737 and 767 aircraft, which are assembled in the United States, serves to remind us...
View ArticleFormer MI6 chief accuses Theresa May of ‘surrendering British national...
The Sun carries a story today covering a letter written by a clutch of well-known figures, expressing deep concerns that Theresa May’s Brexit deal “surrenders British national security” and compromises...
View ArticleTheresa May’s successor should not allow the UK to be entangled in EU legal,...
Napoleon is reputed to have said, scornfully, that the British are “a nation of shopkeepers”. Well, he then discovered that as warriors we didn’t do too badly, at Trafalgar and Waterloo. However, to a...
View ArticleHow to protect both the UK border and EU Single Market in a post-Brexit world
Further to this piece of 19th September investigating the risk of increased smuggling across the Irish border after Brexit, we set out below a legally operable cross-agency operational plan to be...
View ArticleThe UK negotiators must ensure a clean break from the ever-expanding EU...
There is a fundamental problem with getting to grips with EU Defence integration. So much is happening, on many different fronts, it creates a confusing cacophony. It’s important that we get our facts...
View ArticleWe should be suspicious of an anti-democratic EU now creating its own...
A strange feeling overcame me last week in Brussels. I felt, for the first time, repulsed by all for which the EU stands. Until now I had, admittedly unthinkingly, laboured under the illusion that,...
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