By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust When challenged about its claimed right to initiate the process of taking the United Kingdom out of the European Union without Parliamentary consent, Mrs. May’s government has relied on two arguments, one legal and one political. The first is that the [...]
By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust It should have surprised nobody that it took a bare three months for Theresa May to metamorphose from tepid advocate of continuing British membership of the European Union into an enthusiastic proselytiser at the Conservative Party conference for the benefits of [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust It used to be claimed during the Cold War that in the countries of the Soviet bloc elections could not take place until the government had decided what their result should be. Here, we order these matters differently. We had a [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust Recently installed as she is at 10 Downing Street, Theresa May has probably not yet given much thought to her resignation honours list when she ceases to be Prime Minister. If she does, an obvious candidate for preferment should be the [...]
by Viara Bojkova, Head of Geo-Economics Porgramme and Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute While the UK economy and the society are still adjusting to the new political and business reality, to make any final conclusions about the Brexit impact on the rest of Europe seems challenging. My intention [...]
By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust for Education & Research Until the time of writing (15th July) the chaos wreaked on the United Kingdom by the disruptive and unexpected outcome of Mr. Cameron’s referendum on 23rd June has been more obviously political than economic. The personal ambitions and [...]
By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust It was a favourite dictum of the late Robin Leigh Pemberton, former Governor of the Bank of England, that it was easy to predict the future but impossible to know when it would happen. Events since 23rd June have more than [...]
Our Greatness Lies in Staying in Not Pulling out By Ira Straus, U.S. Coordinator of the Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO, an independent policy analysis organization; and Chair of the Center for War/Peace Studies Americans and Britons have a common interest in avoiding Brexit. I hope it [...]
By Jonathan Scott, a Canadian writer currently at Cardiff School of Law and Politics. @J_Scott_ American President Barack Obama recently made headlines arguing against a leave vote in the Brexit referendum. Obama’s remarks were the second time in recent weeks the leave campaign was put on the defensive by a [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust This article was first published on the LSE BrexitVote blog. Much concern has already been expressed by some British commentators about the possible implications for Scotland of a vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union on 23rd June. [...]
