by Chris Rogers | 11 Nov 2016 | European Union
May rejects requests to relax Indian visa quota Theresa May flew to India on Sunday to begin discussions around post-Brexit trade deals. This is the Prime Minister’s first bilateral meeting outside Europe and the first move in her journey to “forge a new global role...
by Chris Rogers | 10 Nov 2016 | European Union, Politics
Go on, admit it, you’d never heard of Stephen Phillips until, on 4th November, he resigned as the Member of Parliament for Sleaford and North Hykeham, triggering an epidemic of speculation that Theresa May would call a “snap general election”. The argument goes that...
by Chris Rogers | 4 Nov 2016 | European Union
Court Out There Only one place to begin this week, and that is with the High Court’s ruling in London that Parliament must vote on Article 50 – effectively giving both the Commons and the Lords a say over whether and when the UK can start the process of leaving the...
by Chris Rogers | 28 Oct 2016 | Economy, European Union
Everything’s going to be OK We start this week with good news – sort of. UK GDP grew 0.5% in the three months from July through to September: the three months, you’ll note, after the vote to leave the European Union. That was a touch slower than the previous...
by Chris Rogers | 27 Oct 2016 | Economy, European Union, Politics
Dire warnings of the collapse of the EU Single Currency make free trade with the rest of the world a priority. The European Single Currency could be on the road to collapse. That is the stark warning, not from Brexiteers, but from one of the Single Currency’s main...
