Boris Johnson

07.02.2020 Brexit

The political paralysis route to rejoin the EU

While I am still sceptical as to whether the UK would be ready to rejoin the EU any time soon, and likewise not convinced the EU should even have it back, an idea has been in the back of my

06.02.2020 Brexit

Boris Johnson’s prescription in his Greenwich speech: placebo sovereignty

Boris Johnson gave a speech about the next stage of Brexit earlier this week in Greenwich. The initial reactions mostly focused on how this was the UK Government setting out its stall that was at odds with the line the

20.09.2019 Brexit

The enduring value of #BrexitDiagram – what is important, and what happens in what order

Yesterday pretty much all the Brexit commentators were poring over comments by Jean Claude Juncker that “we can have a deal”, and seeing the chances of a Deal rising. Meanwhile Mujtaba Rahman was trying to interpret Barclay’s words in a

05.09.2019 Brexit

How opposition parties can engineer a later general election, but get the election called before prorogation of Parliament

tl:dr; Opposition parties want to call an election as soon as possible, but want that election to happen as late as possible. An unconventional route – via a Vote of No Confidence tabled next week (9th September) – offers a

01.09.2019 Brexit

Brexit – What Next? Brexit Diagrams Series 3

NOTE! These are no longer the newest Brexit Diagrams! The new Series 4 can be found here. Series 3 also worked! Every diagram had a General Election as the most likely outcome, and that is what happened! After the success

23.08.2019 Brexit

The UK might crash out of the EU. But that will not happen during a General Election campaign.

Those of us who follow Brexit on an everyday basis have become obsessed by process. How, we ask ourselves, will the 14 day timetable imposed by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act post-Vote of No Confidence (VONC) play out with the required

17.07.2019 Brexit

The speech Jeremy Corbyn should give on 22 July about Johnson and Brexit

Fictitious scenario. The date is Monday 22 July, the day before Boris Johnson is expected to be approved leader of the Conservative Party, and two days before he is expected to go to the Palace to see the Queen. Jeremy

15.07.2019 Brexit

Implausible Brexit scenarios

At the Freudenstadt Symposium on European Regionalism this past weekend I was rather flummoxed by a nevertheless amusing question by someone in the audience. Are there any implausible, but still just about viable, Brexit scenarios you have not thought about?

05.07.2019 Brexit

Tag: Boris Johnson

The political paralysis route to rejoin the EU

Boris Johnson’s prescription in his Greenwich speech: placebo sovereignty

The enduring value of #BrexitDiagram – what is important, and what happens in what order

How opposition parties can engineer a later general election, but get the election called before prorogation of Parliament

Brexit – What Next? Brexit Diagrams Series 3

The UK might crash out of the EU. But that will not happen during a General Election campaign.

The speech Jeremy Corbyn should give on 22 July about Johnson and Brexit

Implausible Brexit scenarios

A pro-Brexit pact, or a Remain Alliance? What might happen in a General Election?

What May’s resignation means for the Brexit process

Britain is not going to have a No Deal Brexit. Because there is no way to get that far.

The political crisis route to Remain