22 03, 2024

VIDEO: Brexit – Can Labour bring the UK closer to the EU?

By |2024-03-22T16:15:02+00:00March 22nd, 2024|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Foreign Policy & Defence, Video|Tags: , , , , , , |

In this video, our Council member John Palmer and Director Brendan Donnelly discuss whether co-operation on defence issues can help an incoming Labour government move closer to the EU on a range of other issues as well. They expect that Labour’s European policy will evolve over its period in office. [...]

22 03, 2024

PODCAST: Brexit – Can Labour bring the UK closer to the EU?

By |2024-03-22T16:10:23+00:00March 22nd, 2024|Categories: Audio, Brexit, Europe, Foreign Policy & Defence|Tags: , , , , , |

In this podcast, our Council member John Palmer and Director Brendan Donnelly discuss whether co-operation on defence issues can help an incoming Labour government move closer to the EU on a range of other issues as well. They expect that Labour’s European policy will evolve over its period in office. [...]

14 02, 2024

Soon Labour Will Need a Policy on Europe

By |2024-02-15T09:10:26+00:00February 14th, 2024|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , , , |

The impact of Brexit, linked to wrong-headed right-wing economic and social policies also part of the Conservative-LibDem policy matrix for Britain since 2010, has had the biggest political-economic-social impact on peace-time Britain in more than a century. The political class has disintegrated. Britain was famous for its political stability. Now [...]

16 01, 2024

VIDEO: Labour Divided on Brexit?

By |2024-01-16T15:42:12+00:00January 16th, 2024|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Global, Video|Tags: , , , , , , |

In this new Federal Trust video, Brendan Donnelly and John Stevens discuss the likely course of the British debate on Brexit in 2024. They suggest that the Mayor of London’s new intervention in this debate is both part of his election strategy for the Mayoral elections and a foretaste of [...]

7 07, 2023

VIDEO: Is Brexit Pulling the Conservative Party Apart?

By |2023-07-07T14:37:42+00:00July 7th, 2023|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Video|Tags: , , , , , , , |

In this Federal Trust video, our Chair John Stevens and Director Brendan Donnelly discuss the current state of the Conservative Party in the light of Brexit’s failure. They predict that after losing the next election the Conservatives will veer dramatically to the right, particularly on European policy linked to Brexit. [...]

17 10, 2022

Brexit Has Turned Britain into Weimar 4th Republic

By |2022-10-17T13:01:04+00:00October 17th, 2022|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Trade, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , , , , |

What has happened to my country? I have been a student, activist, MP, minister and writer in its political life for five decades. Never has it been so broken, divided, confused, uncertain about its future. The Queen’s death marked the last moment when the United Kingdom was briefly itself. Britain [...]

2 09, 2022

Time to Turn the Tables on Brexiteer Cognitive Dissonance

By |2022-09-09T15:44:45+00:00September 2nd, 2022|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , , , , , |

All the evidence - from shrinking trade, to relative economic performance, to the Northern Ireland protocol, to the rotting queues at Dover - indicate that Brexit has failed. It has not only been the disaster that Remainers warned, but has also failed to achieve the wild outcomes promised by the [...]

29 07, 2022

VIDEO: Getting Brexit Undone – Talk by Andrew Blick

By |2022-07-29T15:27:54+00:00July 29th, 2022|Categories: 2022, Brexit, Europe, Video|Tags: , , , , |

In this video, Professor Andrew Blick discusses his new Federal Trust report “Getting Brexit Undone” at the launch webinar on 21 July 2022. He argues that the opposition parties should commit themselves to reversing Brexit after the next General Election, as well as advocating a programme of constitutional reform including proportional [...]

13 04, 2021

Labour, Brexit and the constitution: Waiting for the dog to bark

By |2021-04-13T13:19:30+00:00April 13th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Brexit, Europe, UK Constitution|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The UK faces various serious difficulties at present that share a common cause. Brexit does not explain each of them in its entirety. But it is fundamental to an understanding of them all. There is already clear evidence of departure from the EU’s inflicting substantial economic damage on the UK. [...]

1 12, 2020

Starmer stymied? Labour and the future of UK-EU relations

By |2020-12-01T15:55:12+00:00December 1st, 2020|Categories: Blog, Brexit, Europe|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

by Professor Richard G. Whitman Richard G. Whitman is Professor of Politics and International Relations at University of Kent; and Associate Fellow of Chatham House   The Parliamentary Labour Party is currently agonising on whether it will vote in support of the future relationship agreement that the UK Government is [...]

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