John Redwood MP
July 2, 2019
John Redwood asks whether proposals for a “common fiscal stabilization instrument” are ultimately a backdoor way to a transfer union?
June 19, 2019
Last night’s TV debate was a shambles. BBC pursued its agenda to make sure the candidates could not discuss the great opportunities that follow if we just get on and leave, says John Redwood MP.
June 13, 2019
It is good news that this time Parliament recoiled from allowing those MPs most hostile to our exit from the EU to take control of the […]
May 22, 2019
John Redwood discusses the demise of Tory Party leaders, adding that Theresa May will be the third Prime Minister to fall victim to trusting the EU too much in ways which lose the trust of the UK people.
May 3, 2019
May 1, 2019
Reports of a ‘famous victory’ by the socialists in Spain’s recent election are misleading, says John Redwood.
April 10, 2019
The UK government is humiliating our country by putting us through this repeated begging to the European Council, says John Redwood MP.
April 8, 2019
A second referendum will only prolong the indecision and uncertainty the delay of Brexit is causing, warns John Redwood MP.
March 26, 2019
Too many in the media just accept the assumption that we have done well out of being in the EU and will lose when we leave. There is little evidence to support either of these contentions, says John Redwood MP.
March 15, 2019
John Redwood MP believes Britain should become less militarily interventionist, arguing that there is little evidence that previous forays have delivered long-term benefit for either the UK or her allies.
February 12, 2019
John Redwood MP argues the Euro is a recession machine for weaker economies and the ultimate cause for rising populist movements in Europe.
February 11, 2019
As we listen to the ticking clock we are assured by the Prime Minister the UK will leave the EU on 29 March this year. The question remains how, says John Redwood MP.
February 7, 2019
John Redwood MP examines ways to encourage and help people to help themselves by buying their own home.
February 5, 2019
John Redwood MP explains that up until now the Government has been highly successful in building a diesel car industry in the UK. Recent policy changes, however, have seen it lead the attack on the sector.
February 4, 2019
John Redwood MP calls on the Government to publish its intended post-Brexit tariff schedule, adding that existing tariff levels in some areas should be reduced.
January 30, 2019
John Redwood MP explains his positions on yesterday's proposed amendments to the Prime Minister's EU Withdrawal Agreement.
December 17, 2018
Ignore the scare stories, we know that the ports will operate well and that the planes will fly after March, says John Redwood MP.
December 14, 2018
A managed exit without signing the Withdrawal Agreement – we will still be able to travel to the continent, says John Redwood MP.
November 22, 2018
John Redwood suggests the media would be more convincing were it to stick exclusively to the facts surrounding Brexit, particularly in terms of its political and economic implications.
October 3, 2018
The UK must say 'No' to the dreadful diet of socialist policies prescribed by Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, warns John Redwood.
September 11, 2018
The Liberal Democrats' claim to seek the moderate centre ground is a fallacy. Supporting a new sell out to the EU is far from being a moderate position to adopt, warns John Redwood.
September 6, 2018
John Redwood analyses the Prime Minister's proposed Chequers agreement, concluding the EU is offering us a costly withdrawal agreement.
September 5, 2018
John Redwood discusses the ongoing discord between Germany, France, Italy and other key players at the heart of the European Project.
August 30, 2018
The Prime Minister must return to a Free Trade Agreement based on the EU-Canada deal at Conservative Party Conference in the Autumn, writes John Redwood MP
August 29, 2018
Our fisheries and agricultural communities have good reason to be optimistic about our impending departure from the European Union, says John Redwood MP.
June 25, 2018
By cutting our payments to the EU, the UK will reduce our current account deficit by around 15 per cent, explains John Redwood.
June 20, 2018
John Redwood MP believes granting a blanket increase in public funding risks resulting in wasteful spending.
June 7, 2018
The civil service remains transfixed on its bid to derail Brexit. To win the fight it’s prepared to go to any lengths, including the distribution of false claims and allegations, says John Redwood MP.
May 24, 2018
The Government should be more introspective when considering legislative reforms aimed at cutting pollution. Buses, diesel engine trains, inefficient heating in public buildings are all symptoms of pollution the Government alone can remedy, says John Redwood.
May 10, 2018
Ministers and civil servants must learn how to negotiate with the EU. They must take heed of past mistakes, by not asking for too little and settling for much less, says John Redwood MP.
May 3, 2018
The publication of the EU’s budget yesterday reveals exactly what Vote Leave set out – that the EU is not a mere trading arrangement, but a serious attempt at full economic, monetary and political union, says John Redwood.
April 24, 2018
The referendum was won on a promise of a global outlook. Remainers should stop re-fighting the same old debates, writes John Redwood MP
April 12, 2018
It's time to give the economy a boost with tax cuts, ratcheting back the damage done by continually increasing tax burdens, writes John Redwood MP
April 4, 2018
Continued attempts to reheat Project Fear are demonstrating bias within the civil service against the Government's stated policy of EU withdrawal, writes John Redwood
March 15, 2018
A sensible post-Brexit migration policy should see equal treatment between EU and non-EU nationals, writes John Redwood
March 8, 2018
Taking back control of our money to spend our taxes on our priorities will make us better off out of the EU, writes John Redwood MP
January 19, 2018
Labour’s attack on Private Finance Initiatives is absurd, given the big role the last Labour government played in extending PFIs and contracting out, and even more so given the extensive use Labour Councils rightly make of these techniques today, says John Redwood MP.
January 12, 2018
The true goal of Brexit is a free Britain, in control of its own destiny, writes John Redwood
January 3, 2018
Labour’s record of economic incompetence is one of the largest barriers protecting us from a future Corbyn, McDonnell government, says John Redwood.
December 22, 2017
MPs should stand by their party manifestos or risk grave consequences, argues John Redwood MP
December 13, 2017
With the burgeoning field of financial innovation showing no signs of abating, and the arrival of new ‘crypto currencies’, John Redwood seeks to determine what defines money.
December 12, 2017
Labour's continued pillaring of Universal Credit is counterproductive, argues John Redwood.
December 11, 2017
John Redwood explores the uncertainty and ambiguity contained within the negotiation agreement struck last week.
December 7, 2017
Amidst the bluster and rhetoric from the Remain camp, we must not dilute our Brexit vision by being ensnared by the EU’s regulatory tentacles, says John Redwood.
November 17, 2017
The EU Withdrawal bill is essential, says John Redwood, as it provides the certainty and continuity of law re need given it now seems inevitable we will not be leaving with an agreement in place.
November 15, 2017
Next week’s budget must do more to help create a new generation of owners, says John Redwood.
November 2, 2017
To strengthen our negotiating position, the Government must remind the EU what a No Deal does for us, and then ask what they would prefer to that No Deal, argues John Redwood.
October 27, 2017
Rather than being constrained by diktats from Brussels, UK civil servants now have the ability to think creatively about draft legislation tailoring it to UK needs. However, some are struggling to adapt to this new way of working, says John Redwood.
October 24, 2017
The government must prepare itself for a ‘no deal’ WTO solution post-Brexit to strengthen our hand at the EU negotiating table, argues John Redwood.
August 25, 2017
The Bank of England's proposed restrictions on mortgage and loan debt will hit young people the hardest, says John Redwood.
July 25, 2017
The media's perpetual quest for a fresh Brexit news angle means people are being fooled into thinking the Government's Brexit policy has changed, says John Redwood.
July 19, 2017
John Redwood explains the negative impact the EU single market has had on the British art market.
July 14, 2017
John Redwood discusses why he remains positive in his outlook for Britain’s international trade post-Brexit.
July 5, 2017
The danger of some green legislation is it can drive energy using business offshore and raises our cost of living without achieving at global level the stated aim of the policy, says John Redwood.
May 30, 2017
John Redwood sets out why Jeremy Corbyn’s proposed wave of renationalisation is a bad idea.
May 25, 2017
John Redwood argues the reason some of the world institutions are so bad at forecasting economies is they have a vested interest in stability and come to believe their own reassurances.
May 24, 2017
John Redwood explains why he’s still optimistic about our future relationship with the EU.
May 12, 2017
Additional public sector funding is not without its drawbacks, explains John Redwood.
May 9, 2017
John Redwood discusses some of the fanciful figures that have recently intruded upon the political debate, including the proposed £100bn bill the UK is said to owe the EU.
May 4, 2017
John Redwood sets out the priorities for Britain’s next government.
April 20, 2017
The BBC is more interested in shaping the news agenda than reporting it, says John Redwood.
April 11, 2017
Socialists tax people because they don’t like them. Conservatives have a desire for better public services, but recognise that too much tax blunts aspiration and thwarts ambition, explains John Redwood.
April 6, 2017
The Prime Minister was right to say that no Brexit deal is better than a bad Brexit deal, explains John Redwood.
March 29, 2017
Eurosceptic fears are perfectly described in the Rome Declaration signed last week, says John Redwood.
March 22, 2017
Tony Blair’s belief that New Labour is the perfect balance between ‘the extremes’ of politics is self-serving nonsense, says John Redwood.
March 16, 2017
The SNP’s logic is flawed, says John Redwood. Leaving the EU single market is bad, and yet leaving the UK single market, which is four times bigger for Scotland’s trade, would be good…
March 8, 2017
The country needs a budget that promotes growth, investment and more productive working, rather than ever more taxes, explains John Redwood.
March 7, 2017
John Redwood explains how tomorrow’s budget can be used to tackle the nation’s productivity crisis.
March 3, 2017
Much of the economic gloom mongering is erroneously being blamed on Brexit, says John Redwood MP.
February 22, 2017
It is difficult to see how offering to send money to Eastern European countries would help to coerce them into giving the UK a better trade deal, says John Redwood.
February 13, 2017
John Redwood discusses the negative impact of EU austerity economics upon the fortunes of Europe’s once great governing parties.
February 6, 2017
The BBC fails to see frequently have more than two sides and that balance also applies to the topics discussed and the questions posed, argues John Redwood.
January 24, 2017
John Redwood sets out the significant US foreign policy changes we are likely to see during Trump’s Presidency.
January 20, 2017
The diminution of Mrs Merkel’s power is helpful to the UK as it seeks to negotiate its future relationship with the EU on leaving, says John Redwood.
January 17, 2017
John Redwood explores tools the UK could use to respond to efforts by the European Union to upset our departure.
January 13, 2017
Migrants requiring non-emergency treatment, and who have yet to be granted the right to settle in the UK, must either hold insurance or pay for non-emergency treatment, says John Redwood.
January 11, 2017
John Redwood sets out the shortcomings to Britain’s continued membership of the single market.
December 21, 2016
Some people in the UK need to wake up and stop compromising our negotiating position with the EU, warns John Redwood MP.
December 20, 2016
The EU’s refusal to reassure all of its citizens living in each other’s countries that they can stay after Brexit is morally repulsive, says John Redwood.
December 16, 2016
John Redwood believes Trump’s election presents an opportunity to turn our backs on excessive austerity banking, and to find international agreement on the future of banking regulation.
December 13, 2016
John Redwood argues the problem with cheap labour carrying out tasks with insufficient training and investment is they put many extra costs on the taxpayer.
December 7, 2016
Six months after the decision to leave the EU there is no visible damage to jobs, output, confidence, house prices or earnings, says John Redwood MP.
December 6, 2016
Discussing the Brexit case currently before the Supreme Court, John Redwood points out that Treaty changes have long been left to Ministerial prerogative, and not Parliament’s.
November 29, 2016
With such high unemployment in the Euro area, John Redwood asks why the EU 27 would risk engaging in a trade war with the United Kingdom.
November 24, 2016
With Italy’s government facing possible referendum defeat, and the prospect of Marine Le Pen gaining office, officials in Brussels are fearful the winds of change are stirring, says John Redwood.
November 21, 2016
It seems fitting that Obama's lacklustre Presidency should end in the company of European leaders who, like him, have also lost touch with their electorate, says John Redwood.
November 16, 2016
A common theme fuelling the successful Brexit and Trump campaigns was their ability to challenge the arrogant assumption of superior wisdom and moral right adopted by a gilded elite, says John Redwood.
November 11, 2016
John Redwood examines why so many pollsters and political commentators keep getting it wrong.
November 2, 2016
People who want to be self-employed, want to do more than one thing, and want to be flexible about how many hours they work and how much they earn have the right to do just that, argues John Redwood.
November 1, 2016
The latest UK economic growth figures are forcing the big investment banks and official bodies to rewrite their 2016 economic forecasts.
October 28, 2016
Given the UK has significant trade deficits with all the major European countries, it is difficult to believe they would want to make their exports to us dearer, explains John Redwood.
October 26, 2016
John Redwood argues that it is no part of the Courts’ remit to tell Parliament what it can and cannot vote on and debate.
October 25, 2016
It’s time for the government to tell us more of the opportunities from exiting the EU, and for businesses to get behind Brexit, says John Redwood.
October 20, 2016
John Redwood argues that to reduce the uncertainty over our post-EU trade relations, the easiest option is to either carry on as we are, or go to WTO existing terms.
October 18, 2016
John Redwood MP sets out three ways to reduce the business community's worries over Brexit.
October 11, 2016
Claims that the collapse in the pound is due to Mrs. May's opting for a ‘hard Brexit’ are just the latest in a series of false narratives cooked up by the establishment institutions, says John Redwood.
October 10, 2016
The UK needs to consider carefully the path it takes to the EU exit door, says John Redwood.
October 6, 2016
Britain’s departure from the EU is a simple choice. Carry on tariff free as at present, or revert to the WTO ready-made schedules.
September 29, 2016
John Redwood argues there should be a ban on foreign state purchases where we cannot have similar access to their market.
September 27, 2016
The West’s indecision over Syria’s civil war has allowed Russia to place herself in a much stronger position than the US, argues John Redwood.
September 23, 2016
The European Commission fails to understand democracy. It prefers administration of the elite by the elite for the elite of big government and big business, argues John Redwood.
September 22, 2016
The UK should stop meddling in EU matters that are no business of ours, argues John Redwood MP.
September 16, 2016
Both Clinton and Trump have drawbacks, but beneath the personality probes, health scares and aggressive rhetoric lie some fundamental political issues, says John Redwood.
September 13, 2016
Claims that Parliament needs to vote to approve an Article 50 letter or not is based on foolish misunderstandings, says John Redwood.
August 25, 2016
Despite Merkel’s lip-service to a ‘better EU’, John Redwood argues all the signs point to more integration and more EU.
August 23, 2016
August 18, 2016
John Redwood MP argues it is Labour, rather than the Conservatives, who have demonstrated a greater propensity to privatise the NHS.
August 15, 2016
John Redwood discusses the issue of far-left entryism into the Labour party and the challenges it presents.
August 12, 2016
The contenders for the Labour leadership lack creativity and vision for how to address the pressing issues at the forefront of the public’s mind, argues John Redwood.
August 9, 2016
Too many still subscribe to the false belief that the single market is a priceless creation, naïve to the significant drawbacks membership entails, says John Redwood MP.
August 3, 2016
John Redwood MP believes it is time we moved back to a system where Ministers set policies based on public need, rather than the whims of supposed experts.
August 1, 2016
The Prime Minister is right to fight to end the scourge of modern slavery, says John Redwood MP.
August 1, 2016
John Redwood MP sets out the spending proposals he would like to see implemented in the country's first post-Brexit Budget.
July 24, 2016
In spite of his inflammatory rhetoric around crime and migration, Donald Trump’s tax policy reveals a more positive side, says John Redwood MP.
July 15, 2016
John Redwood MP argues a quick Brexit is in both Britain’s interest, and the interest of our European neighbours.
July 8, 2016
The civil service needs to demonstrate a greater degree of independence, and be adequately resourced to deal with Brexit, says John Redwood MP.
July 5, 2016
John Redwood explains why he is voting for Andrea Leadsom to lead the Conservative Party leader and be the country’s next Prime Minister.
June 30, 2016
John Redwood sets out important next steps to ensure a smooth and efficient transition from European Union membership to UK independence.
June 29, 2016
What we need is a budget to promote expansion and prosperity, spending the saved contributions as soon as we are out, says John Redwood.
June 27, 2016
The success of the out campaign was its seeming ability to attract voters from all walks of life, to suggest otherwise is disingenuous says John Redwood MP.
June 25, 2016
We need to make early moves to regain our seats, votes and voices on major international bodies, says John Redwood MP.
June 23, 2016
By leaving the EU we allow our European neighbours to continue the journey toward governmental union unhindered, says John Redwood MP.
June 20, 2016
Doomsayers on the economic consequences of Brexit have all the potency of the Millennium bug experts, says John Redwood MP.
June 19, 2016
The IMF’s economic analysis of a British withdrawal from the European Union is flawed, argues John Redwood MP.
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