Parliament still matters
In parallel with the court case on whether parliament is required to authorise the departure of the UK from the European Union (read about it here and here), there has …
referendum on Europe
Votes for prisoners comes nearer
Economics and immigration are not the only battlegrounds in the debate about Britain and the EU. The rulings from the European Court of Human Rights that prisoners should not be …
Stab in the back
A persistent complaint from the eurosceptics is that the British people were lied to about membership of the EU. Joining wouldn’t reduce our national sovereignty, we were told, and we …
Federal Union review of 2013
The overwhelming sensation from 2013 was that of waiting. Important processes have started and not yet concluded. There is a certain amount to be done in the meantime to shape …
Grant Shapps’ feelings
The latest stage in the saga of British departure from the European Union is struck today by Tory party chairman, Grant Shapps MP. The Tory plan is to put into …
An odd plan for a referendum
Rogue Tory backbencher Adam Afriyie – the man spoken of by his friends as a possible challenger to David Cameron or the British equivalent of Barack Obama – has exceeded …
It’s arrived!
The first set of reports from the government’s Balance of Competences (BoC) review emerged yesterday after 9 months gestation to a joyous public reception. The fountains in Trafalgar Square and …
The two faces of William Hague
The traditional definition of chutzpah is the man who, on convicted of the murder of his parents, asks the court for mercy on the grounds that he is an orphan. …
No end to the controversy
Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union: …
The Speech
So we have finally heard The Speech. David Cameron spoke this morning to outline what Conservative party policy on Europe would be after the next election. (Read the speech here.) …