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IS ANYONE still fooled by David Cameron’s pretence that he is renegotiating the terms of Britain’s membership of the European Union?
The Prime Minister’s latest dash to Bavaria and Budapest is, in truth, part of a choreographed charade to dig him and the EU itself out of a hole.
At the last general election, the Tories promised electors a referendum on EU membership in the belief that it would stem the haemorrhaging of votes to Ukip. That pledge did the trick, alongside lies about Labour crashing the economy and “Red Ed” Miliband getting into a Downing Street bed with an even redder SNP.
MARTIN HALL welcomes a study of Britain’s relationship with the EU that sheds light on the way euroscepticism moved from the margins to the centre
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