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Government finally confronts Brexit damage

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has become the third senior minister this month to speak openly about the damage Brexit has done to Britain’s economy, signalling a decisive shift in tone from a government that has long avoided the subject. In an...

October 16, 2025
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October 14, 2025

Starmer and Streeting break silence on Brexit’s damage

For the first time since taking office, Labour’s leadership is openly confronting the economic damage caused by Brexit. Speaking at the Cliveden Literary Festival, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he was “glad that Brexit is a problem whose name we...
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October 13, 2025

EU tightens Entry/Exit System: what it means for British travellers

Yesterday, we saw the official introduction of the long-delayed Entry-Exit System (EES) for British travellers entering the European Union. This new system will directly affect how Britons travel to Europe. The EES will now automatically record travellers’ biometric data and...
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October 08, 2025

'The tide is turning on Europe' - Heseltine makes landmark speech

Former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine spoke to a full house at European Movement UK’s event at Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Lord Heseltine is a Patron of European Movement UK and his speech is in full below: "At the...
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October 07, 2025

Leaving ECHR breaches Good Friday Agreement, says Grieve

Following months of internal divisions within the party, leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch announced that her party would "take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if they win the next election". The ECHR plays...
Environment

September 18, 2025

Seven ways the new Defra Secretary of State can make her mark

As the new Secretary of State for Defra, Emma Reynolds will need to hit the ground running to calm the nerves of all the stakeholders that Defra deals with. Businesses, farmers and green groups alike have had cause for concern...
Youth Mobility

September 10, 2025

TUC conference endorses rejoining Erasmus+

The 157th annual TUC Congress in Brighton has passed a motion highlighting the importance of the UK’s relationship with the EU across the UK economy.  Proposals in the motion call on the TUC General Council to lobby the UK Government...
Youth Mobility

September 04, 2025

Government formally commits to "youth experience scheme"

In an agreement signed yesterday between the UK and Spain, the Government has for the first time formally committed to negotiating a Youth Experience Scheme between the UK and the European Union. The full government press release is here. The...
Opinion

August 28, 2025

EM welcomes Labour’s push on Europe – and asks: what’s Nigel leaving this week?

By Joe Meighan - “And for his next trick…”  After the disaster that was Brexit, Nigel Farage’s latest big idea is… to leave something else. This time, it’s the European Convention on Human Rights, supposedly to tackle immigration. Where have...
Opinion

August 27, 2025

When Stormont failed us, the ECHR protected us

By Pierce Robinson - Growing up in Enniskillen, a town scarred by the 1987 IRA bombing that killed 11 people, I was reminded daily of how fragile peace can be. After decades of violence, mistrust, and grief, it took years...
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