English politicians are prone to playing lip service to the unity of the United Kingdom. Theresa May even made sure she visited Northern Ireland on her whistle-stop one year until Brexit tour last week. May leads the Tory Party that
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The transition period does not simply delay the negative consequences of Brexit – it amplifies them
Sometimes a tweet from a politician really hits the mark. So it was with this yesterday from European Council President Donald Tusk: https://x.com/eucopresident/status/976487887935074305 Brexit transition will “delay all the negative consequences of Brexit by another 21 months”. What can we
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Why even clueless Brits should care about the Irish border and Brexit
Let me lay out my cards on the table: I am clueless about Irish political history. I was born in the early 1980s in Wales. My childhood was spent in England and Wales. In did not learn about Irish politics
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