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IT’S a measure of the poverty of the Conservatives’ election propaganda that their Facebook page mocks Jeremy Corbyn’s interview on the BBC’s Woman’s Hour, when he sought to find an accurate response to a question about the cost of free childcare in Labour’s manifesto.
“Imagine this performance during the Brexit negotiations,” the Tory Facebook post says. But anyone with a scrap of understanding about negotiations knows that they don’t work on the basis of on-the-spot answers to every trivial question.
In fact, in and with the EU, most negotiation is not done by ministers but by civil servants reporting to them.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT