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Minister for Brexit Opportunities Jacob Rees-Mogg arrives to attend a regional cabinet meeting at Middleport Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent on Thursday May 12, 2022
THE European Union is trying to make Britain “feel bad” about Brexit with its approach to dealing with the Northern Ireland Protocol, according to government minister Jacob Rees-Mogg.
The Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency Minister insisted today that Britain was now an independent country, so the wishes of the EU were of secondary importance.
He said: “I think it [the EU] wants to make the UK feel bad about having left the European Union and that underpins its whole policy and it doesn’t really mind about the consequences of that.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
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