Theresa May

20.03.2017 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

10.03.2017 Brexit

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

05.01.2017 Brexit

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

20.12.2016 Brexit

Varieties of Brexit

Various varieties of Brexit crop up in the British media, but it has all started to get a bit unmanageable. So here, as a sort of summary, are twenty varieties of Brexit! Soft Brexit One of the two original varieties of

19.12.2016 Brexit

For the rest of the EU, it’s as if a Soft Brexit has already happened

The amusing film of Theresa May at last week’s European Council looking rather confused and isolated drew the predictable reactions – Brexiteers saw it as the EU bullying the UK, while Remain people saw it as a symbol of Britain’s

13.11.2016 Brexit

Trump to the left of you, the EU to the right, stuck in the middle… of the Atlantic

My first reaction to the Trump-Farage pictures last night was to be repulsed, not least because the group picture also shows Arron Banks and Raheem Kassam there with him – a nastier threesome in British politics would be harder to

12.09.2016 Brexit

The short term Brexit calendar

I’ve recently been pondering what happens next in Britain’s attempt to Brexit. The summer, when Theresa May looked like she had most things in hand, is now very much behind us. But at the time of writing we are still

05.09.2016 Brexit

Sunday 4th September 2016: the day the Brexit headache really began

When, in a couple of years, we look back at the car crash that was the Brexit referendum and its aftermath, 4th September 2016 ought to stand out as the day when the post-referendum problems really started. Theresa May, we

02.09.2016 Brexit

12 MORE ways to make it look like Brexit has happened

This is a sequel to the post “12 ways to make it look like Brexit has happened“ So my tongue in cheek post about ways to make it look like Brexit has happened turned out to be a huge success.

16.08.2016 Brexit

Brexit is not going to happen (but it might need a second referendum)

This blog entry is going to be like a red rag to a bull to some people. The focus, as readers who persevere beyond this first paragraph will see, is on the practicalities of why Brexit will not happen, not

13.07.2016 Brexit

Cover your ears, world – this Boris Johnson as Foreign Minister thing might just prevent Brexit

It has just been announced that Prime Minister May has appointed Boris Johnson as Foreign Minister. Reactions are not positive – see Mike Smithson, Gareth Harding, David Rennie, Antonia Mochan, Jeremy Cliffe. And I agree it’s going to look awful

25.03.2012 EU Politics / UK Politics

Answering how an independent Scotland would work in the EU is much more mundane than anyone seems to want to admit

Whether (and indeed how) Scotland would remain in the EU if it became an independent state has been an issue that has risen up the political agenda over the past few months. Theresa May has weighed into the debate today,