On 9 December 1968, as tensions were rising in the province between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists, the former Ulster Unionist Prime Minister of...
Services make up around 80 per cent of UK economic activity. Prior to the UK’s departure from the EU and the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU was typically the destina...
In the years since the referendum, it has become a myth that the impetus behind Brexit was a demand for pure sovereignty, with any economic effects being irrele...
A free trade agreement with the US has consistently been presented as the main prize from the UK's much touted post-Brexit trade policy independence. The UK Pri...
The original 1997 devolution settlement was based on an expansive philosophy that meant the powers of the new institutions could grow over time. Under success...
‘The premise of this book’, writes the author, ‘is that humans are self-interested and that this manifests itself politically’. In other words, because human b...
At a time when the gulf between the 0.1 per cent and the 99.9 per cent is wider than ever, it is ironic that the primary political divide is now along the line...
The protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland proved to be the trickiest element of the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement to negotiate. The version that was finally agreed...
One of the big questions raised by the Brexit negotiations following the vote in the 2016 Referendum to leave the European Union, which reached their climax in...
It has long been assumed that UK devolution was structured around a clear separation of powers that are reserved to the UK parliament and those that are de...
From the moment David Cameron made his pledge to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union back in January 2013, Britain has experienced s...
Our newly elected prime minister Boris Johnson is infamous for finding it difficult to tell the truth. The general election campaign was littered with untruths...
