by Whitehouse Communications | 3 May 2018 | Politics
It’s been a tough week for Theresa May. Monday and Tuesday saw the fallout of Amber Rudd’s departure as Home Secretary. Wednesday saw the postman drop off a 30 page document from Brexiteers demanding departure from the customs union – followed by the Brexit Cabinet...
by Chris Rogers | 1 Sep 2017 | European Union, Politics
It has been another busy week for Brexit negotiations (will there ever be a quiet one?) as David Davis and Michael Barnier concluded the third round of talks yesterday. At the same time, the Prime Minister and International Trade Secretary Liam Fox jetted off to...
by Chris Rogers | 18 Jan 2017 | European Union, Politics
If you were to say Theresa May’s Brexit speech yesterday was highly anticipated, you’d probably be putting forward an early contender for political understatement of the year. In one fell swoop Mrs May set out at least some of the detail on the British negotiating...
by Chris Rogers | 9 Jan 2017 | Politics
The Economist is making waves with its front cover again. A few years after its eye-catching, lurid yellow mock-up of David Cameron as a punk (complete with Mohican), its more simple – and more cutting – description of the Prime Minister as ‘Theresa Maybe’ has got...
by Chris Rogers | 1 Dec 2016 | Politics
The longer defeated parties remain in denial about the reasons for their loss of support, the longer they will remain out of office. This column was consistently scathing of both the leading candidates in the American Presidential Election, but is confident the world...