Sovereignty

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Tony Blair Institute urges Burnham to set ten-year path towards rejoining EU

A report by the Tony Blair Institute sets a ten-year ambition for Britain to rejoin a significantly reformed EU and lands three days before Labour gathers in Liverpool. The same morning, the IPPR estimated that UK goods exports to the EU could have been up to £6.5bn a year higher under a mutual recognition agreement.

Vicky Richter · 24 September 2026
Sovereignty

Eleven EU states tell Brussels to stop writing laws and start clearing them up

Germany, Italy and Poland are among eleven countries demanding that Brussels stop producing new laws for twelve months, arguing that simplification must start before legislation is adopted rather than years after. It is a warning from eleven of the EU's 27 member states, and it lands in the middle of a budget fight and an industrial crisis.

Vicky Richter · 21 September 2026
Sovereignty

Brexit Was About Taking Back Control. AI Is About What We Do With It.

In 2016, we made the case for Brexit with the information we had then. We talked about sovereignty, borders, democracy, trade and the fundamental principle that the people who make Britain's laws should ultimately be accountable to the British people.

By Great British PAC CEO Claire Bullivant and Chief Policy Director Andrew Hunt · 16 September 2026
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Sinn Féin says Burnham cannot stop break-up of UK after Cardiff self-determination pact

Andy Burnham is facing a co-ordinated nationalist challenge after Sinn Féin, the SNP and Plaid Cymru signed a pact in Cardiff declaring that Westminster has no right to block their nations’ “self-determination”. Michelle O’Neill said the Prime Minister would not be able to “hold back the tide”, while John Swinney claimed Burnham would be the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Vicky Richter · 15 September 2026
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Brussels forces Google to make search results worse for EU customers

Google has redesigned Search across its EU results to comply with the Digital Markets Act, calling the changes the biggest quality drop in the product's history. The Commission's own decision accepts that several of the affected features helped users find what they were looking for.

Vicky Richter · 11 September 2026
Sovereignty

AfD’s election surge puts Dexit back on Germany’s political map

AfD’s rise has not proved that Germany wants Dexit. It has proved something else: ideas once pushed to the political fringe now have to be taken seriously. After Saxony-Anhalt, the argument over sovereignty, borders, the euro and Germany’s place in Europe is no longer easy for the political establishment to dismiss.

Vicky Richter · 9 September 2026
Sovereignty

When Foreign Money Marches Through London

A US congressional investigation alleges that Chinese linked money, channelled through a tech tycoon's sprawling donor network, reached a UK company tied to Code Pink, the far left protest group organising demonstrations outside RAF bases and the Ministry of Defence. Whatever your view on Gaza, this is no longer a left or right question. It is a sovereignty question. When a hostile one party state helps bankroll dissent on British streets, the march stops being an expression of democratic will and becomes an instrument of someone else's foreign policy.

Vicky Richter · 17 August 2026