European Union
June 17, 2016
By voting ‘leave’ on June 23rd we will be giving the next generation a bright future, full of opportunity and promise, says Andrea Leadsom MP.
June 17, 2016
The European Union is a facilitator of British influence around the world, argues Andrew Woodcock.
June 18, 2016
Britain’s influence on the architecture of today’s European Union is pronounced, nowhere more so than on trade and competitiveness, argues Andrew Woodcock.
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 25, 2016
We need to make early moves to regain our seats, votes and voices on major international bodies, says John Redwood MP.
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 30, 2016
Our decision to leave the European Union puts our country’s status as a global hub for technological innovation in jeopardy, warns Daria Kantor.
June 30, 2016
John Redwood sets out important next steps to ensure a smooth and efficient transition from European Union membership to UK independence.
July 1, 2016
Robert Seddon discusses how, to some, the European Union has emerged as a guiding light of moral values.
July 2, 2016
Britain’s exit from the European Union will lead to a seismic shift in our political landscape, but Andrew Woodcock wonders if the way it is being done is not a daft way to run a country.
July 4, 2016
Outside the EU the UK can pursue a more equitable trade arrangement that will drive up living standards in the world’s poorest countries, says Peter Lilley.
July 12, 2016
John Redwood discusses the new Government’s first key decision: whether to initiate Brexit by means of rapid UK Parliamentary legislation, or whether to go for an early notification under Article 50.
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.
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.
September 15, 2016
Countries like Romania and Bulgaria shouldn’t have joined the EU in the first place, so, Rory Bloomfield asks: why do we have legal reciprocity with them?
September 20, 2016
Remember the risks to staying in the EU’s Single Market? The BBC obviously hasn’t, argues Rory Broomfield.
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.
October 10, 2016
The UK needs to consider carefully the path it takes to the EU exit door, says John Redwood.
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.
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 21, 2016
Some people in the UK need to wake up and stop compromising our negotiating position with the EU, warns John Redwood MP.
January 2, 2017
With storm clouds on the horizon, 2017 looks set to deliver a wave of new leadership across Europe, and with it a more favourable forecast for Britain’s Brexit negotiations, argues Patrick Sullivan.
January 17, 2017
John Redwood explores tools the UK could use to respond to efforts by the European Union to upset our departure.
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 24, 2017
John Redwood sets out the significant US foreign policy changes we are likely to see during Trump’s Presidency.
March 6, 2017
Matthew Ellery argues that the time for excuses is over. The EU must face up to reality: the rising tide of hostility towards a European federalist superstate is nobody’s fault but the EU’s.
March 31, 2017
The European Commission barely hides its contempt for European voters and the democratic process, argues Joseph Hackett.
April 6, 2017
Recent comments by Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, suggest yet another EU lie can be added to the list, says the TFA's Rory Broomfield.
April 20, 2017
Figures revealed by Philip Hollobone MP in a Westminster Hall debate have lifted the lid on the astronomical costs of our EU membership. If anything, we should demand a refund, writes Rory Broomfield.
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.
July 24, 2017
Ben Somervell explains why a bilateral UK-EU free trade agreement need not take as long as previous European free trade agreements.
August 3, 2017
Alexander Fiuza believes the EU migrant crisis is undermining the stability of the European Union. Brussels must urgently rethink its existing strategy of tackling the crisis, he says.
August 9, 2017
The public were not lied to or hoaxed regarding the £350 million, says Isaac Ross.
August 16, 2017
David Miliband’s proposed second referendum would undermine the will of the people, says Benjamin Somervell.
August 23, 2017
Isaac Ross fears a Corbyn government will use Brexit as a pretext and an apparatus to transform society into a mould of his ideological beliefs.
August 23, 2017
The big news from the EU this week was the ongoing stalemate with the Brexit talks. But what we see lurking in the shadows is a campaign, led by Tony Blair, to derail Brexit.
September 17, 2017
With the EU’s approach toward the ongoing Brexit negotiations defined by an unimaginative and inflexible attitude, permeated by its obsessive commitment toward further integration and centralisation, the Government should prepare for a ‘no deal’ scenario, argues Rory Broomfield.
September 18, 2017
The EU’s quick post-referendum amendment to Article 50 to ensure that, in future, it is subject to Qualified Majority Voting (QMV), coupled with Junker’s ‘radical vision’ for Europe’s future, including the creation of an omnipotent President, is nothing more than a poorly conceived strategy to overcome the awkward and rebellious obstacle of democratic nations, says Peter Divey.
October 1, 2017
Our European Union membership prevents us from fully capitalising on the trade opportunities stemming from our existing relationships with developing nations like Azerbaijan. Free from the EU we can focus on what really matters: true economic cooperation and trade based on mutual respect and friendship, says Bob Blackman MP.
October 4, 2017
Peter Divey argues the EU’s approach to the Brexit negotiations is like that of a used-car salesman.
October 8, 2017
The EU’s insistence on a sea border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK would mean a de facto reunification of Ireland, rekindling a bitter struggle between Republicans and Unionists that saw nearly four thousand killed, says Andre Walker.
October 11, 2017
Peter Divey believes the Government’s claim that the UK will have exited from the European Union by 30 March, 2019 is laughable. If you are following the rules and paying the subs in any club you are clearly still "in", he says.
October 12, 2017
The efforts of European bicycle manufacturers to lobby for tariffs on their international rivals will dampen competition and hurt consumers writes Bill Wirtz
October 18, 2017
Macron and Junker’s prescription of ever closer European integration is misguided, writes Evgeny Pudovkin.
October 19, 2017
Victory for the Austrian right should be another reminder for the EU that their troubles are far from over, writes James Holland.
October 25, 2017
If she wants a deal, Theresa May must summon the courage to walk away, writes Peter Bingle
October 30, 2017
We mustn't fall for Project Fear II, says John Baron MP.
October 31, 2017
By declaring an intended WTO trade option now, the government will provide the business community with the direction and certainty they need, whilst giving them time to prepare ahead of the March 2019 deadline, says John Longworth.
November 1, 2017
The re-emergence of the Europhile rebels reminds us why we need Brexit, writes Peter Divey
November 2, 2017
Ill-considered campaign slogans in Hungary and the Czech Republic are not the basis for improvements in food standards, writes Bill Wirtz.
November 8, 2017
With Labour rejecting its existing electoral base, pursing instead the once apathetic youth vote, the party will be forced to advance on a vehemently pro-European footing, and in doing so lay the foundations for Britain’s re-entry into the European Union, says Peter Divey.
November 24, 2017
Peter Divey argues that should a Brexit trade deal remain out of sight come December’s European Council summit, the UK must get up off its knees. Failure to do so would sacrifice yet more of our collective dignity.
November 29, 2017
If David Davis and his team want a knockout punch, they need to transform their approach to negotiations. And here’s how, writes Peter Divey
December 1, 2017
The anti-Brexit hysteria over NHS workers and employment figures is a cautionary tale to us all, writes James Holland.
December 6, 2017
There’s no turning back, explains Jack Tagholm-Child. Were the UK to do an about turn on its EU departure, far from a return to the status quo, it would see the UK subject to significantly less favourable terms that we previously enjoyed.
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.
December 14, 2017
Policymakers interested in enacting science-based policy must first learn how to read scientific literature and understand scientific methodology. Otherwise the phrase becomes nothing more than a branding strategy, argues Ryan Khurana.
December 18, 2017
The Grieve's amendment to give Parliament the casting vote on any deal may strengthen the pro-Brexit hand, argues Nic Conner.
December 27, 2017
Chuka Umunna’s hollow howls of betrayal regarding the absence of our post-Brexit windfall are confounding. He seems unable to grasp that the scrapping of EU funding can only be achieved once we have left the European Union, says David Sedgwick.
January 8, 2018
Tony Blair and his cronies have lost all sense of logic and reason since the Referendum, relying on baseless feelings, writes Bruce Newsome
January 12, 2018
The true goal of Brexit is a free Britain, in control of its own destiny, writes John Redwood
January 16, 2018
The loss of Britain's financial contributions is exacerbating the East-West divisions in the EU, writes Peter Divey
January 22, 2018
Theresa May is as irredeemable as Neville Chamberlain after Munich: She should go quicker than he did, says Bruce Newsome.
January 30, 2018
The Mayor's unwarranted forays into Brexit are a disservice to Londoners, whose city he should be promoting not prophesying doom over, writes Peter Lyon
February 14, 2018
Brexit is a cry of English national pride, with potentially significant ramifications on national identity for all nations of the United Kingdom, writes Aled Gwyn Job
February 25, 2018
Corbyn and Starmer are deluded if they think the EU is going to roll over, play dead and allow the current customs arrangements to remain while at the same time relinquishing political and other control over us. Theresa’s our only hope, says Neil Jopson.
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
March 8, 2018
The Labour Party’s collusion with the EU represents a betrayal of Labour Leave voters, argues Peter Lyon. Corbyn’s Customs Union plan is in conflict with Labour values and the EU Referendum result.
March 18, 2018
The inertia surrounding the Government’s handling of Brexit, matched with its double-dealing, mean the best course of action now is to commit to an effective separation in March 2019 without a transitional period. Once outside, we will be better placed to dictate the terms of our future relationship, argues Bruce Newsome.
March 22, 2018
With a Brexit black hole to fill, and the prospect of further enlargement looming, the EU’s post-2020 budget is set to be one of increased expenditure and excess, writes Robert Bates.
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
April 13, 2018
Britain’s immigration system should seek to recruit the most talented and enterprising from around the world, not turn them away, writes Robert Bates.
April 15, 2018
Bruce Newsome argues that in place of their current narrative of a ‘blameless EU versus stupid voters’, the Remain campaign would be more effective championing the virtues of the UK within a reformed European Union.
April 18, 2018
A wave of anti-EU sentiment is spreading across the European Continent, says Peter Lyon. Hungarians, Italians and many others are turning their backs on EU elites and expressing sympathy for Britain as we forge a path out of the EU.
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.
May 18, 2018
Bruce Newsome: Theresa May’s Cabinet achieves a consensus on the customs union, after months of disagreement – and the consensus is: more years of delay!
May 30, 2018
The European Union, guided by France and Germany, has its hand in Italy’s political crisis, says Peter Divey.
July 6, 2018
The European Union’s stated aim of an ever-closer union is based upon an intellectual confusion. It is the character of the EU itself that should determine our perception of it rather than the hum-drum trivial distractions we see daily, says Sean Walsh.
July 30, 2018
The new motivations of voters mean that a soft Brexit will spell doom for the Conservatives in spite of the fear of Corbyn
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
September 5, 2018
John Redwood discusses the ongoing discord between Germany, France, Italy and other key players at the heart of the European Project.
September 28, 2018
Bruce Newsome finds that the latest Remainer polemic inadvertently lifts the lid on why Remainers know the EU’s problems with their heads but cling to the EU’s myths with their hearts.
Jean-Claude Junker’s Barmy EU Army