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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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November 21, 2025

Six months on from the UK-EU Summit – where are we now?

Joe Meighan assesses progress made since May and asks, when will the substance catch up with the rhetoric?
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November 17, 2025

European Movement leadership team confirmed for next two years

European Movement UK has confirmed its new leadership line-up following elections announced at Saturday’s AGM in Oxford. Mike Galsworthy has been re-elected as Chair for a further two years, joined by newly elected Vice-Chairs Molly Scott Cato and Gayle Darlington-Shaw....
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November 06, 2025

75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights

On 4 November 1950, Britain helped to create one of the most important international agreements of the modern age.
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November 03, 2025

"Europe’s moderates must urgently counter threats to stability and prosperity” - Verhofstadt

Speaking in Edinburgh on Saturday at the annual dinner of the European Movement in Scotland (EMiS), Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian Prime Minister and former senior member of the European Parliament, said that Europe is facing multiple internal and external...
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October 16, 2025

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...
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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...
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August 13, 2025

UK already benefitting from rejoining Horizon

18 months ago, the UK rejoined Horizon Europe - the EU’s £80bn science and research programme - and is already seeing the benefits. The latest data found that the UK is already “the fifth most successful country in the programme,...