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The government has used Brexit to bulldoze parliamentary process. Enough is enough As chair of parliament’s constitution committee, I have witnessed up close the attempt to evade oversight. A reset is overdue Photo: Pixabay It’s over. The UK has finally left the European Union. It has been a long, complex and contentious journey but, as the government likes to remind us, we have now “taken back control” of our laws. That may be cause for celebration for some, but it is worth considering where our new control centre is located. How will this renewed legislative sovereignty be exercis...

Brexit deal to build Britain’s future The latest column by North West Norfolk MP James Wild, Thursday, December 31, 2020 The deal is done. It was welcome news on Christmas Eve that a UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement had been secured. My first vote a year ago was for the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill which delivered on our manifesto pledge to leave the EU on 31 January. This week I supported the Future Relationship Bill to implement this Agreement. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Picture: Paul Grover/Daily Telegraph/PA This deal is a significant achievement that provides certainty for...

Don't show me this message again✕ Boris Johnson has failed to stand by his incorrect claim that there will be “no non-tariff barriers” to trade under the UK-EUBrexit trade agreement brokered on Christmas Eve, as Sir Keir Starmer accused him of failing to be “straight” with the British public. The prime minister made the suggestion of no additional red tape just last week hours after securing an agreement with Brussels and despite the government already admitting businesses will be subject to customs checks after the transition period. Earlier this month, the chief executive of HMRC ...

Nicola Sturgeon will urge MSPs not to give Holyrood's consent to Boris Johnson's Brexit deal NICOLA Sturgeon will set out the SNP’s opposition to Boris Johnson’s “harmful” Brexit deal – with the Scottish Parliament set to refuse to give its consent to the EU agreement. The SNP, Scottish Labour, the Scottish Greens and the Scottish Lib Dems are set to vote in favour of a legislative consent memorandum at Holyrood today, in the First Minister’s name, calling for a halt to the “inadequate and damaging” Brexit deal. MPs in Westminster will also vote on the Brexit deal, which...

THE 'thin and disappointing deal' agreed by the Prime Minister will make trade with the most important European markets more expensive and more…