“How do you feel after Brexit day?” a friend messaged me on Wednesday night. “You’ve closed that chapter already, haven’t you?” “I’m fine” was my response. The friend that sent me the message was right – I have closed that chapter.
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Category: Brexit
Article 50: the final countdown
Time until Theresa May triggers Article 50 (announced it will be 29th March – we think it is to be 1130 BST / 1230 CET) Time until the UK crashes out of the European Union Time
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The chasm between the public perception and the reality of EU Freedom of Movement in the UK
Ten days ago this tweet caught my eye: https://x.com/antoniabance/status/839779211703382016 (the tweet is part of a series from an event – see the rest here) Then yesterday we have the news in a Guardian article that record numbers of nurses are quitting
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Brexit and the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) – known unknowns
David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, gave evidence to the Brexit Select Committee today. Right at the start Davis was asked by Hilary Benn what would happen to the European Health Insurance Card in the UK in the case of a
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What if crashing out of the EU without a deal actually becomes the UK’s plan?
This week in the FT (€), Philip Stevens recalled the EU negotiation advice of Douglas Hurd, the UK’s Foreign Secretary under John Major. There is more to be gained from conciliation than from shouting argued Hurd, a sentiment I echo
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On rights of EU citizens in the UK post-Brexit, detail matters – so the House of Lords is right to fight
So the House of Lords, with a pretty solid majority, voted to unilaterally protect the rights of EU citizens resident in the UK post-Brexit, passing an amendment to the Article 50 notification bill with a majority of 102. Even a
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The two versions of the £350 million for the NHS slogan
The lines in Iain Dale’s blog post about the EU referendum yesterday started to gnaw at me. Here are the lines in full: They don’t even really take on the argument that the £350 million a week “promise” wasn’t in
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Do I “accept” that Britain is leaving the EU?
Iain Dale has penned a pretty flimsy piece trying to justify May’s current Brexit course in light of what happened before the referendum here. I am not going to revisit why that argument is weak as I have already dealt
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The Remainers – the instinctive insiders
After Tony Blair’s Brexit speech last week, former Deputy Director of Britain Stronger in Europe (and now Edelman exec) Lucy Thomas tweeted this: https://x.com/lucycthomas/status/832488126996045824 Shortly before that an interesting discussion on Twitter ensued between Sunder Katwala and David Aaronovich, with
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There’s going to be a Brexit crunch or crisis of some sort, and maybe that’s for the best?
Sod all this cheery coming together lark. I admire Ian Dunt for trying it, but ultimately I do not think it is going to work, not least – as Richard Elwes elegantly points out – so many Remain people rightly
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Some further thoughts on Andrew Marr and the Brexit debate
When I set out to dissect Andrew Marr’s “An optimist’s guide to Brexit” (his piece here, my fisking here) I had no idea quite what a reaction it would provoke. Whenever I write something about Brexit it ends up leading to some
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Fisking Andrew Marr’s delusional view of Brexit
Perhaps already too filled with mince pies and and excessive alcohol, or maybe just clutching at some sort of good news amongst the doom of Brexit, many commentators who should otherwise know better have been gushing in their praise for Andrew
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