The widespread belief that that the UK economy is significantly smaller than it would have been in...
Author - Graham Gudgin
Rachel Reeves Wrong on Brexit
Calls to move closer to the EU or even to rejoin the EU are becoming stronger from the Labour Party...
Is Sinn Fein Deceiving us on the Windsor Framework?
Sinn Fein now have the First Minister’s post in Northern Ireland plus three other ministries...
Always Blame Brexit
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has recently claimed that her patent need to raise taxes in...
What would Reform’s Tsunami mean for a general election
The May 2025 local election results were an unprecedented revolution in democratic support, unlike...
Northern Ireland richer than Ireland
The hugely distorted national accounts of Ireland deceive people into thinking that the Republic of...
How is the UK’s Brexit Economy Performing?
The latest evidence shows that the UK economy has grown as fast or faster than other major European...
The Emerging Instability in UK Elections
The 2024 general election was the most disproportionate in UK electoral history. The Labour party...
Labour’s Something for Nothing Budget
Labour’s first budget is judged by the OBR to generate only a small improvement in public services...
Telling lies on Brexit
Briefings for Britain has for years combatted the distortions and falsehoods of ‘Project Fear’...
Is Labour destabilizing Northern Ireland?
Labour’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has been cosying up to Irish nationalists. Does...
LibDems Threaten Key Tory Seats
The polls have changed little during the General Election campaign, leaving Labour with a large...
Brexit: A Phony War?
It has been mostly all quiet on the Brexit front in recent months but is this a phony war? Will the...
BfB Election Monitor. Tories on a cliff-edge
In this first of our election monitors we use current opinion poll data to predict the number of...
Beware the Irish Republic’s scam economy
This article discusses how Ireland's economy is heavily distorted due to operating simultaneously...
Safeguarding the Union?
The Governments new Command Paper Safeguarding the Union makes strenuous efforts to show that...
Will they, Wont they? The DUP and Devolution.
It remains unclear whether the DUP will agree to the restoration of devolution in NI. Their protest...
The Great Stagnation. Brexit not to blame.
The virtual cessation of growth in productivity since 2008 is the largest economic problem of our...
Remainers becoming increasingly desperate
Just for fun, here is a compendium of some of the wilder recent Remainer claims about the impact of...
The Bad Friday Agreement
The international celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement were a moment...
Fake News from the New Statesman
Like 18th century Jacobites, Remainers never give up. The New Statesman is the latest purveyor of...
Biden talked baloney in Belfast
Joe Biden in Belfast did what US Presidents fishing for Irish American votes usually do. They...
What should the DUP do now?
The New Windsor Agreement which replaces the Northern Ireland Protocol leaves intact the framework...
‘Brexit has cost every British household £1000’ – Really?
Last week’s confident reports that reductions in business investment due to Brexit had lowered...
Are the NI Protocol talks going anywhere?
What can we realistically expect from the current negotiations on the Northern Ireland Protocol? It...
Are the NI Protocol talks going anywhere?
What can we realistically expect from the current negotiations on the Northern Ireland Protocol? ...
What impact is Brexit having on the UK economy?
In this major report on the impact of Brexit using the latest data, the three authors examine a...
EU membership did not accelerate economic growth in the UK?
This article, originally published in 2017, argues that the widely held view that EU membership...
What on earth just happened?
The dramatic fall in the Truss administration is generally regarded as due to the negative...
The Chancellor’s Budget fiasco. What now?
The revolution in economic policy attempted by Kwasi Kwarteng has got off to a bad start and may...
David Trimble A statesman of our Age
Graham Gudgin, who was special advisor to David Trimble as First Minster in Northern Ireland views...
Why the Centre for European Reform is wrong about Brexit
This article first published by Policy Exchange argues that attempts to assess the impact of Brexit...
Missed Opportunities for the Irish Border
With the UK government about to publish a bill giving UK ministers powers to impose alternative...
Over-excitement about Sinn Fein
The media frenzy about a sea change in Northern Ireland has now abated somewhat as the reality of...
The New Post-Invasion World
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine destroys any illusions we might have held about the limited nature of...
Muddling Up. The Levelling Up White Paper
In its much-satirised Levelling Up report, the civil service has produced a bloated lemon. Despite...
What Impact will the Protocol have on the Northern Ireland...
This is the first of two articles reviewing the potential impact of the Irish Protocol on the...
Who is still afraid of Martin Wolf?
Graham Gudgin takes up cudgels again with the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times...
The Irish Protocol: Versailles for slow learners
Some of you may have seen a version of this article on the Spiked website this week. For those who...
Calling Time on the Northern Ireland Protocol
In this extended version of his recent article on the Spiked website, Graham Gudgin anticipates the...
Only Joking. Boris and the Pits
Boris Johnson’s quip about Thatcherite pit closures being a help to climate change may have been...
David Frost rewrites the NI Protocol
This weeks Command Paper ‘The Northern Ireland Protocol. The Way Forward’ contains radical...
The steps HMG needs to take on the Irish Protocol
In this presentation to the Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee on June 23rd, Graham...
The steps HMG needs to take on the Irish Protocol-Written...
In this written evidence for a NI Assembly Finance Committee inquiry into the NI Protocol, Graham...
How far can the NI Protocol be changed?
The UK and EU appear to be on course for a major clash over the Northern Ireland Protocol but after...
Who is better off, North or South in Ireland?
Those who bear ill-will to the UK like to bad-mouth Northern Ireland and wrongly suggest that it...
EU disarray on vaccines. How many lives are being lost?
It is now clear that vaccinations are saving lives in the Covid pandemic. The faster the rollout of...
Is an Irish Sea customs border a threat to Unionism
BriefingsforBritain co-editor Dr Graham Gudgin was asked by the Belfast Telegraph to reflect...
Combatting Remainer versions of Brexit history
Remainers are not about to surrender their belief in the damaging nature of Brexit. While it is...
If Scotland is to leave the UK, a majority of Scots needs to...
Dr Graham Gudgin suggests that the rules of an independence referendum for Scotland are too lax and...