Exciting news this week, as Britain approved the Pfizer vaccine – becoming the first Western...
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Rebuttal: Fishing’s Plaice in Negotiations
British negotiators should discount claims that the sector will be unable to access European...
Rebuttal: Assuming the Worst
Why OECD forecasts are wrong to believe that Brexit will be a serious drag on growth
Newsletter 29 November 2020
Project Fear 3.0 (or is that too low a number?) continues to ramp up the scare stories in these...
Rebuttal: Systematic Crisis or Systematic Lack of Evidence?
We take a look at claims that customs checks will bring about shortages, and look at the problems...
Rebuttal: Will Brexit really cost more than COVID?
Addressing the assumptions behind projections of long-term economic decline.
Newsletter 22 November 2020
Cheery news this week, as the UK and Canada have agreed a post-Brexit trade deal, rolling over the...
Baroness Fox in support of the Internal Market Bill
Baroness Claire Fox made the following powerful speech during the House of Lords debate on the...
Rebuttal: Whither Irish Trade post-Brexit?
Ireland has even more to lose from a hard Brexit than commentators have claimed.
Rebuttal: The Bill, the Lords and the President-Elect
The election of Joe Biden and the defeat of the Internal Market Bill in the Lords won't bring about...
Newsletter 15 Nov 2020
The news from Westminster this weekend looks rather a lot like the breakdown of a gossipy year 9...
Rebuttal: (Electric) Shock and Awe
The problems with threats to remove the UK's access to European energy markets.
New BfB report shows costs of no-deal have been seriously...
With the deadline for a Brexit deal looming, Briefings for Britain is publishing a new report...
Newsletter 8 November 2020
It should have been a week in which we gathered for firework displays and Remembrance services.
Newsletter 01 November 2020
A spooky sense of déjà vu arrived with Halloween this week, as Boris Johnson called another solemn...
Will the Remainer Undead ever give up?
The Remainer media are still publicising flawed and highly negative predictions for the economic...
Too Good to be True?
The recent resumption of Brexit negotiations should prompt caution amongst Leavers, though there...
Rebuttal: REACHing for Solutions
Headlines about manufacturing jobs, polls and the chemical industry generally obscure more than...
Newsletter 25 October 2020
After much huffing and puffing, Michel Barnier was back in Britain to continue talks on Thursday
Newsletter 18 October 2020
Somewhere, a lady with a Covid-risk BMI is warming up her vocal cords. It’s the final Brexit...
Brexiteers beware – a bad deal is still a real risk
The UK’s negotiating efforts with the EU this year have been dramatically better than under the May...
Newsletter 11 Oct 2020
Michel Barnier’s favourite phrase – ‘the clock is ticking’ – is finally becoming more than a...
Rebuttal: Taking Stock of Financial Markets – Part 2
Continuing scare stories about the death of the City say more about the resilience of Project Fear...
Rebuttal: The Price of Peace
Using the threat of violence in Northern Ireland to frustrate Brexit is not only morally...
Newsletter 3 Oct 2020
The world waits for reports of President Trump’s health, as the US election swiftly veered from...
Rebuttal: A Brexit Blow to Automobile Manufacture?
Worries that the EU can cripple British car manufacture are overblown
Newsletter 27 September 2020
The Trade talks between the EU and UK are said to be progressing better than before, with a new...
Newsletter 21 September 2020
This week saw a small string of resignations over the International Markets Bill, although the...
Newsletter 13 Sept 2020
This week the government worried about a second wave of Covid-19, while the media continued to...
Newsletter 06 September 2020
This week everyone continues to gear up for a final negotiating push. All eyes are focussed on the...
Rebuttal: Playing the Blame Game
Brussels tries to put Britain at fault for the slow progress of talks
Newsletter 31 Aug 2020
Of course, the one bank holiday which fell outside of lockdown would have the worst weather.
Newsletter 23 Aug 2020
Michel Barnier is back, playing his favourite broken record. A deal is ‘unlikely’, he tells us this...
Channel crossings – a French negotiating ploy?
It seems rather a coincidence that in the middle of a global pandemic, crossings of illegal...
Newsletter 17 Aug 2020
Britain remembered seventy-five years since Victory in Japan this weekend. Alas, hopes that the...
Newsletter 9 Aug 2020
As if it hasn’t been hot enough across Britain this week, the diehard Remainers continue to pump...
Newsletter 02 August 2020
It’s not quite a second wave, but we have seen a few new Covid ripples across the country this week...
Newsletter 26 July 2020
Sir Ian Botham continues to fight the good fight for global Britain this week, as Britain and the...
Newsletter 19 Joly 2020
It’s one year since Boris Johnson came to power. And what a year.
Newsletter 12 July 2020
The swimming pools have reopened and no chlorine-related deaths reported as yet.
Newletter 05 July 2020
Risks to Brexit this week include the entire population of England having been at the pub since 6am...
Newsletter 28 June 2020
The 4th July approaches, and it won’t just be Americans celebrating Independence Day this year
Newsletter 21 June 2020
Boris Johnson likes his Brexit breakthroughs to come with a bilateral love-in.
Newsletter 14 June 2020
It was a week for thinking about Britain’s chequered past. There was some thoughtful...
Newsletter 7 June 2020
All eyes are on the US this week, following the killing of George Floyd and widespread protests...
Newsletter 31 May 2020
This week people across the country will be reunited with friends and family for the first time...
Newsletter 25 May 2020
The last few months have been so full of unexpected turns that we have almost grown used to them...
“DEAR MICHEL …” Britain raises its voice
David Frost, the UK's chief Brexit negotiator, in a polite but blunt letter to his opposite number...
Newsletter 17 May 2020
Our (very slightly loosened) lockdown continues and Covid-19 is still the biggest story in town...
Newsletter 10 May 2020
It’s not the VE Day we would have wanted, but it will have to do. Bunting still abounded, Vera Lynn...