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Showing posts with label Article 50. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Article 50. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 June 2018

Idée fixe

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Theresa May's disastrous Brexit strategy  The arguments against staying in the Custom Union (CU) are pathetic. It is as if Brexi...
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Monday, 16 April 2018

How Brexit threatens pluralist democracy in the UK

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A pluralistic democracy is a democracy with many centres of power. Typically that involves an executive (the government) and parliament, c...
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Friday, 27 October 2017

Why is the UK making such a mess of A50 negotiations?

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The obvious answer to this question is that the negotiator, the UK government, is completely split on what it wants. But that is only part ...
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Wednesday, 18 January 2017

The Single Market was Mrs Thatcher’s great achievement for the UK

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Parliament should be able to vote on whether leaving the EU means destroying this legacy. The story of how Mrs Thatcher helped in the...
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Saturday, 19 November 2016

The folly of triggering Article 50

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Immediately after the Brexit vote, all the analysis I saw argued that Article 50 would not be triggered for some time. They all made a simp...
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Monday, 7 November 2016

Freedom of Movement, Austerity, Labour and MPs votes on Brexit

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In three important ways Labour’s current attitude to Freedom of Movement reminds me of their pre-Corbyn attitude to austerity. First, Labou...
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Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. This blog is written for both economists and non-economists, and covers macroeconomics but also other economic issues, political economy, the media and politics.
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