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Ken Clarke: Rejoining the Customs Union and Single Market would bring enormous advantages

Former Chancellor and Home Secretary Lord Clarke reflects on the urgent need for the UK to rebuild its economic relationship with the EU.

December 04, 2025
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December 04, 2025

Ken Clarke: Rejoining the Customs Union and Single Market would bring enormous advantages

Former Chancellor and Home Secretary Lord Clarke reflects on the urgent need for the UK to rebuild its economic relationship with the EU.
Economy

November 26, 2025

Baby steps won’t fix Brexit or the Budget

A few weeks ago, Brexit was a taboo word in Westminster. Now Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are telling us Brexit is why the government has had to raise taxes in today’s Budget. The government is right. Brexit has left...
Economy

November 26, 2025

New poll shows 75% favour joining single market to lower taxes

New polling by Opinium on behalf of European Movement UK shows that, among British adults who felt Brexit had been harmful to the UK, more than three-quarters favoured the UK joining the Single Market and Customs Union as a way to...
Updates

July 28, 2025

EU-US trade deal - what we know

Over the weekend, the European Union and the United States agreed the basis for a trade deal at President Trump’s golf course in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Trump dubbed it “the largest trade deal in history”. This is a fast-moving situation,...
Opinion

May 15, 2025

UK-EU talks on the hook because of fishing - here's why

Today’s news brings us another splashy headline: reports that a fish deal—or lack thereof, could sink UK-EU summit talks. Yes, you read that right. Not nuclear policy. Not AI regulation. Fish. Once again, the humble haddock finds itself thrust to...
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May 09, 2025

European Movement UK's Response to the US-UK Free Trade Deal

No agreement with a country thousands of miles away can replace the benefits of being part of the world’s largest single market on our doorstep. The UK pursued a trade deal with the US alone because we are no longer...
Opinion

April 14, 2025

From Trump’s tariffs to resetting the reset

Brexiter gloating the other week about Donald Trump hitting the EU with heavier tariffs than those on the UK was both absurd and short-lived.
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April 03, 2025

Trump's Tariffs are no Brexit Benefit

From this Saturday, new taxes on goods being imported into America will kick in. The UK has been hit with a 10% tariff on all of its goods into the US, which Donald Trump says is a retaliation to UK...
Updates

March 18, 2025

European Movement UK Launches "Brexit Music Cost Counter"

European Movement UK has launched a new online tool, The Brexit Music Cost Counter, to highlight the escalating financial impact of Brexit on UK musicians. The counter, available here, visually tracks the growing costs faced by musicians since the UK's...
Opinion

January 24, 2025

Yes, the UK should join PEM. Here's why.

CEO, Sir Nick Harvey, outlines what the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) Convention is and why the UK would benefit from joining. At Davos, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič suggested that Brussels is open to the UK joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) Convention to strengthen...