Norway-to-Canada was one thing. Norway-plus-the-backstop is another. It is inferior even to the Prime Minister’s proposed deal.
If all this is correct, the EEA route seems to me a sensible way forward if Parliament can’t agree on a deal.
“I’m against an extension to transition”, Rees-Mogg confirms. Plus: How many letters does he think Brady holds? And could there be a second referendum?
We prefer Canada Plus Plus Plus. But a question could emerge over the next few months: is it a better option than an unmanageable No Deal – or even no Brexit at all?
In the third piece in our mini-series evaluating the EEA, our columnist wonders how both sides managed to become so hostile to moderate concepts.
We will know soon enough, when the leaders reassemble for the next opportunity to break the impasse.
Do they become the party of the provincial working class and lower middle class? Or do they fight to maintain their status as the party of the affluent middle class?
George Trefgarne, a Director of Open Europe, remembers the campaign that kept Britain out of the €uro and notes, wistfully, that few of the campaign's key players have been recruited by David Cameron. He argues that Business for Sterling was, perhaps, the most successful campaign run by the right for many decades. So far, only […]
George Trefgarne writes a column for the Daily Mail Uniquely among European nations, Britain does not lose wars. Yet we are on the verge of losing two at once, in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is the long term strategic significance of Sir Richard Dannatt’s intervention last week, in which he called for British troops to […]
George Trefgarne is the author of Metroboom: Lessons from Britain's recovery in the 1930s, published by the Centre for Policy Studies. Follow George on Twitter. As George Osborne and his Treasury team finalise the Budget, their ears ringing with the appeals of all and sundry about what to do, they could do worse than consider […]