Tag: Brexit
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4p off gherkins. Kemi Badenoch was on a roll on Wednesday. Not only did she push hard on the King of the Mid-North’s newly-revealed thinking about rejoining the European Union, but she also had a ball in her response to the Budget, training quick-fire bazookas on Chancellor John Healey (Rawmarsh & Conisborough, Labour) “resign, again!”,…
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Perhaps not the most critical issue facing the nation… but important to the PM nonetheless. The Commons was quieter this week as the government cleared the procedural decks for the Budget, which will be held next Wednesday, 28th October. Wednesday 21st October Outside the House Wednesday started with news of the government’s decision to accept…
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Badenoch fails to land serious blows The Commons got back to work after its four week “Conference Season” recess. This seems incomprehensible to most voters who think it would be much more productive if all the conferences were held (in different places) in the same week. This (short) week’s conclusion from the Commons is that…
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Hoping for some Realism. This task is appointed for you Frodo Andy. Andy Burnham tried to kill off talk of an early election over the weekend, insisting that he would serve out his predecessor’s mandate until 2029. Nevertheless, his first Labour conference speech as PM fired the starting gun on that election by setting out…
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Britain Can’t Make Its Mind Up. Don’t let your indecision/Take you from behind/Trust your inner vision/Don’t let others change your mind. Classic 1981 Summer fluff with exceptionally poor lip-synching from Bucks Fizz riffs on 50 years of UK indecisiveness.
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On 19th May Keir Starmer hosted Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa (he’s the EU Council President) for a “Reset Summit” at Lancaster House in London. Negotiations were reported to have gone down to the wire, but they announced a post-Brexit agreement encompassing defence and security cooperation, fisheries, agrifood barriers, carbon border taxes and…