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DAVID CAMERON’S fawning attitude to his Polish counterpart Beata Szydlo at their joint press conference cannot hide the reality that his charm offensive with EU leaders is going nowhere.
Szydlo’s diplomatic acknowledgement that the pair didn’t “see eye to eye” on his plan to bar EU migrants to Britain from claiming welfare benefits fudges the scale of their disagreement.
Her country joined the EU because its politicians believed that the economy would benefit from the bloc’s four freedoms foreshadowed nearly 60 years ago in the Treaty of Rome.
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
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
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare