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Dame Cheryl Gillan, Welsh Secretary under David Cameron and staunch opponent of HS2 – obituary She campaigned to protect the Chilterns against HS2 and housing development and in 2019 announced Boris Johnson's Tory leadership victory 5 April 2021 • 4:16pm Cheryl Gillan with her dog Tizzy after he was voted Westminster Dog of the Year in 1996 Credit: Brian Smith Dame Cheryl Gillan, who has died aged 68, was a combative Conservative MP who was Welsh Secretary in David Cameron’s Coalition, but made a greater impact campaigning against the HS2 high-speed railway being driven through her Ches...

5 Apr 2021 at 17:12 I was and am proud to call Cheryl Gillan a friend. I was so sad to learn this afternoon that she had died. She had been in poor health for some time and had been devastated by the death of her beloved husband Jack Leeming at the age of 91 in 2019. She was absolutely devoted to him and cared for him lovingly in his latter years. They were a real team. He might have been older than her but they were so well matched. I first met Cheryl in the mid 1980s when she interviewed me to be a member of the Bow Group, back in the days when it was highly respected. They didn't accept a...

15 Mar 2021 The European Union is launching legal action against the United Kingdom over its efforts to protect trade between the British mainland and Northern Ireland, vindicating critics of Boris Johnson’s deals with the bloc who said they ensured Brexit was by no means “done”. The terms Prime Minister Johnson agreed with the bloc on Northern Ireland were particularly onerous, with Northern Ireland, or Ulster, being left within the regulatory domain of the EU, and a partial customs border between the British province and England, Scotland, and Wales being imposed. A so-called “grace...

The controversial Northern Ireland Protocol was created to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland. It subsequently tied Northern Ireland to the EU customs union and single market, resulting in checks on goods moving around the UK. Jack Ross, Union Research Fellow at the independent Bow Group think-tank, has condemned the current protocol and said the arrangement threatens the Union and UK sovereignty. Boris Johnson has been ordered to get tough on the EU (Image: GETTY) Additional checks have been placed on goods in Northern Ireland (Image: GETTY) He told Express.co.uk “The Bow Gro...

“Freeports will make trading through Britain a more attractive prospect. “We have had freeports before, including when Britain was in the EU, but it is likely the government's decision to vastly increase the number of freeports is inspired by Brexit, as Britain looks to become more competitive with bespoke trade deals.” He added: “Freeports and enterprise zones offer a way for the government to promote growth in areas without major upfront investment. Rishi Sunak has unveiled eight freeport locations in England (Image: GETTY) Freeports are set to make the UK more attractive to global ...