Sunak can be No 10’s Buzz Lightyear

Afternoon, I spent some of half term last week at Disneyland Paris, wandering between the various attractions such as Pirates of the Caribbean, the Mad Hatter’s Tea Cups and Alice’s Curious Labyrinth. Why did it all remind me of the Brexit talks? The decision by Rishi Sunak to “pause” progress on his Northern Ireland Protocol

The Telegraph Frontpage for 2023 February 14

A new Brexit deal is expected to be announced in the next fortnight after the UK watered down its hardline resistance to European judges ruling on issues in Northern Ireland.

The Telegraph Chopper’s politics for Tuesday 2023 January 10

Good evening, As a veteran of the Brexit Wars 2017-2020, I have learned to be highly sceptical of claims of a breakthrough in the talks about a settlement over the Northern Ireland Protocol. That was how I felt when the United Kingdom and European Union hailed a big advance in Brexit talks over the Northern

Public opinion on the ECJ spells trouble for Sunak

The European courts have come to represent everything Brexiteers hate about the EU Credit: Rex Public opinion on the ECJ spells trouble for Sunak By Tony Diver, SUNDAY POLITICAL EDITOR (ACTING) European judges have become the bogeymen of British politics. Seldom a day goes by when the newspapers do not refer to the overweening influence

In Eastern Europe the Foundations of the European Union in danger

Warsaw has angered the EU by refusing to override a tribunal that this month ruled that the Polish constitution took precedence over rulings by the European Court of Justice, but now starts feeling the full force of the EU Commission’s wrath for daring to challenge the Court of Justice of the European Union’s role as the ultimate arbiter of law within the bloc.

Pain after nearly 50 years’ membership of the European Union

At the end of January 2020 the moment of no return had come for Great-Britain. A fter the outcome of the December 2019 general election broke the parliamentary stalemate that had hitherto made it impossible to bring the Brexit process, instigated in 2016, to a conclusion. Then just seven weeks later, on 23 March, the