By Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust 27th March 2018 Last week was a difficult period for those inclined to argue that the Labour Party is or may become an effective political vehicle for opposition to Brexit. To the applause of John Redwood, Jeremy Corbyn dismissed Owen [...]
The Brexit negotiations: Looking forward and back 19th March 2018 On the day when the British and EU negotiators agreed on a Brexit transition deal our expert panel reviewed and assessed its importance and possible implications for Britain's departure from the EU. On this last occasion before his move to [...]
by Dr Andrew Blick, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; Senior Research Fellow, The Federal Trust 14th March 2018 Through its insistence on leaving the European Union (EU), the Theresa May government has created an immense challenge for itself. The task is one of immense [...]
by Bob Savic, Senior Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute and an advisory partner with Petersburg Capital LLP in London. 6th March 2018 For about two years (i.e. from December 2015 to date) corporate investment in the UK economy has been growing at or around 0%. This is [...]
Mrs May’s Mansion House Speech – The Irish Dimension By John Bruton, former Irish Taoiseach 4th March 2018 This article was first published in the Meath Chronicle. My first reaction, watching Theresa May’s speech, was that The UK is going to put itself, and all the other EU countries, [...]
by Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust 3rd March 2018 After her speech yesterday about the Brexit negotiations, the Prime Minister was asked by a German journalist whether she thought Brexit was worth all the effort and disruption it entailed. Although British withdrawal from the EU is probably the [...]
Free Movement and Migration by Dr Hywel Ceri Jones 9th February 2018 It is time to put the record straight for the British public and reject the false message that the EU provides the open door to unbridled free movement or that it prevents the UK from deciding [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 24th January 2018 In recent weeks, there has been widespread discussion of the possibility of a new referendum later in the year to endorse or reject the terms negotiated by Mrs May and her government for British withdrawal from the European Union. [...]
Corbyn Should Stop The UK’s Drift Out Of The EU by John Palmer 10th January 2018 This article first appeared on Social Europe. My friend John Weeks’ argument in Social Europe that Theresa May’s conclusion of a ‘First Stage’ Brexit agreement signals that the UK is now irreversibly on [...]
Brexit: The second phase 22nd January 2018 Speakers: Mary Honeyball, Labour MEP for London Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust; former Conservative MEP (1994 - 1999) Lord Dykes, former MP for Harrow East (1970 - 1997) Chaired by Nicolas Maclean, Member of the Federal Trust's Advisory Council Video [...]
