How long will Parliament ignore the 48%? by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust David Jones, the Minister for Brexit, assured the House of Commons this week that it would have the opportunity to vote on the treaty negotiated by Mrs. May’s government to bring about [...]
IRELAND FACES HEAVY COSTS FOR BRITAIN’S BREXIT FOLLY. By John Palmer In the complex and sometimes arcane debate about the British government’s Brexit crusade, little attention has been paid to the consequences it will have for our neighbouring island, Ireland. In government circles there appears to date to [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 17th January 2017 Mrs. May answers the questions with the worst possible answers Mrs. May has answered many of the questions posed to her by commentators before her speech today. These answers provoke the further following reflections. […]
In this article our director Brendan Donnelly argues that the triggering of Article 50 will not be the end of the Brexit story. Mrs May is likely to face over the next two years growing obstacles in her path of extricating the UK from the European Union. There is a [...]
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 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 [...]
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. [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust This article was first published on the LSE BrexitVote blog. When the Conservative members of the European Parliament first formed in the early 1990s a joint parliamentary group with the MEPs from the European Peoples Party, there was a certain condescending [...]
by Monica Threlfall (writing in a personal capacity), Reader in European Politics, London Metropolitan University The Leave people are always saying they want “our sovereignty back“. But for what purpose? What is this sovereignty and for whom is it supposed to work? Not for ordinary people. Sovereignty is a [...]
by Dr Tim Oliver, Dahrendorf Fellow on Europe-North America Relations, LSE Ideas Further referendums on Britain’s European question could happen whatever the result of June’s vote. In a recent report for the Federal Trust, Why the EU Referendum Will Not be the End of the Story, Dr Tim Oliver [...]
