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We need a "rapid & deep" improvement to UK/EU trade links. Rejoining the EU would do it!
www.bestforbritain.org/the_brexit_b...
The Brexit Budget: Pull the EU lever now or risk failing on growth mission
Campaigners have called on the government to deliver a "rapid and deep" improvement to the UK's trade links with the EU after the Chancellor cited Brexit as a key factor impacting the decisions made i...
www.bestforbritain.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Wanted: a prime minister who can stand up to the far right bylines.scot/politics/wan...
Wanted: a prime minister who can stand up to the far right
Whatever his other attributes, Keir Starmer is not the right man to take the fight to Nigel Farage's far right
bylines.scot
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves

"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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🚨🚨Re #brexit there is not much new under the sun; it is still a cause of pain and misery and a massive drag on the UK economy which is costing Britain up to £90bn a year in lost tax revenues. 🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
How Europhobia crushed Tories, and why Labour must beware bylines.scot/politics/how...
How Europhobia crushed Tories, and why Labour must beware
From Thatcher to Brexit, the Tories’ war on Europe turned a political colossus into a crippled party. Labour risks repeating the same mistake
bylines.scot
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time.” National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass. Reported in The Herald Scotland today by Ian McConnell.
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Reform plans a mass rally in Scotland. Here's what I wrote in The Herald last September.
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Think Scottish politics is divisive now? Wait till Farage gets going
Nigel Farage’s Reform party plans a full-frontal electoral attack on Scotland. It intends to contest the next Holyrood election, in 2026. You can…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Well worth a read!
🔴Nathan Gill Sentenced: What He Was Really Doing for the Kremlin

Reform UK’s former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo

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Nathan Gill Sentenced: What He Was Really Doing for the Kremlin
Reform UK's former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Ukraine to capitulate so that Trump can benefit personally. You have to wonder what hold Putin has over Trump
🚨🚨This is no "peace" plan, it is a recipe for further suffering and #Russian imperialist expansion in the #west. It is difficult to appreciate just how much damage the #trump administration has done to #Ukraine and its war efforts. It is disgusting beyond words. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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🚨🚨This is no "peace" plan, it is a recipe for further suffering and #Russian imperialist expansion in the #west. It is difficult to appreciate just how much damage the #trump administration has done to #Ukraine and its war efforts. It is disgusting beyond words. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland

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Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Former Tory Prime Minister John Major pinned leaving the EU as “an act of collective folly” in his speech at the London School of Economics yesterday.
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Former Tory PM Brands Brexit 'An Act Of Collective Folly' In Outspoken Attack
John Major said "our enemies celebrated and our friends despaired" at the vote to leave the European Union.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
My Bylines Scotland Radio interview with Professor James Mitchell, on his new book on Scotland's governance (with Henry MacLeish).

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Professor James Mitchell talks about his new book
Martin Roche talks to Edinburgh University's Professor James Mitchell about his new book, Unfinished Business
bylines.scot
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Given what’s happening in the US &the growing might of China, the UK looks more & more isolated, its economic recovery less likely. There is low-hanging fruit just across the English Channel. It is time to rejoin the European Single Market." My column in The Herald, 4 Nov 2024.
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM