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Europe Articles

‘The country will be run according to a different idea’

There will be no pie-in-the-sky promises under the next Labour government, Ed Miliband tells Richard Angell and Adam Harrison Entering the leader of the opposition’s now-bare office, his team are quick to point out how the operation has decamped to Brewers Green, the...

House of Fools

Tonight sees the long awaited release of the third series of Kevin Spacey’s ‘House of Cards’ adaptation (note: ‘series’ not ‘season’). Expect little to be done in Westminster this weekend as political obsessives indulge their fascination with the politics of the US. I...

Eurosceptics are waging an organised campaign. Where’s the pro-European voice?

If there was any question as to whether a shadow European Union referendum campaign is under way, then this week confirmed it beyond all doubt. Those who favour a referendum were out in force beginning with John Longford, director general of the British Chambers of...

The ‘Does my bum look big in this?’ complex

The British public is persuaded that Britain counts for little or nothing in Europe. We are, apparently, forever dictated to and bossed about. Europe is a clique of unelected bureaucrats and we’re the despised outsiders. It is a Franco-German party and we are the...
Vote Leave’s snake oil

Vote Leave’s snake oil

Brexiteers’ Commonwealth immigration claims are disingenuous The approach adopted by the Vote Leave campaign to woo...