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Come on Boris, it’s time to give the nation hope — not more lockdown horror | The Telegraph
Come on Boris, you can do this. Your supporters are begging, imploring for you to find your engaging, energizing, electrifying vigour and vim.
- Business ·
London is still a ghost town, when it needs to get back to business | The Telegraph
Bustling and brimming with people. Buzzing with ideas, burning with ambition. This is the central London I have always known and loved for over 30…
Boris Johnson is seizing his chance to be the new Churchill in his war on coronavirus | The Telegraph
Arms-waving, lectern-thumping, hair-jumping, so Boris emerged from his recovery with a Churchillian earnest. Thankfully, some life and energy back at No 10.
- Economy ·
We need to know the risks and rewards of ending the coronavirus lockdown soon
The shocking news of the Prime Minister being in intensive care brings the nation together praying for his speedy recovery. This will take some time and he needs his ministerial team to rise more than ever to the challenge of getting us through and out of the crisis.
- Economy ·
My five-point plan for bolder and faster action to help business survive coronavirus
gine your worst nightmare, then the horror as you realize that it’s real. The economy is behaving like a critically ill Covid 19 victim. Cash is running out of both businesses and the overall economy in a dramatic way; in the same way that a severely ill Coronavirus patient struggles for air.
It’s time to turn up the heat on the EU by accelerating our post-Brexit trade talks
As the clock struck 11pm last Friday night, I was on stage in Parliament Square in front of a sea of tens of thousands elated Brexit supporters. Looking at hundreds of large Union Jacks fluttering brightly against the night sky, I felt a rush of optimism and confidence about what lies ahead.
Brexit reflections from Richard Tice
Here is the latest in our series reflecting on the Brexit process with regular BrexitCentral authors and others who have played an important role in our journey out of the European Union.
After a momentous 2019, it’s time to feast on the delicious opportunities afforded by Brexit
Optimism abounds as people return to work. Millions of people have new-found enthusiasm, energy and hope, akin to a delicious cake baked with the trusty ingredients of political stability and economic potential.
Arrogant Brexit Party defectors need to get out of London more
Earlier this year, the Brexit Party came from nowhere to win a national election. Our victory in the European elections last May stunned the establishment and terrified the Tory party.
Tories bottled it, we won’t
WHAT’s the point of inheritance tax? I only ask, because it is the most hated of all taxes, consumes so much time and energy, and generates relatively little for the Treasury that there must be a really, really good reason to keep it.
The Tories must form an electoral pact with the Brexit Party – or else they risk being annihilated
After the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, one thing is very clear: the two-party political system has failed this country. Friday’s results showed just how much electoral trouble both the Conservatives and Labour are now in.
Why we must quit Brussels now – the sooner we leave this grotesque temple of excess the better
EUROSTAR carriages were rammed with politicians en route to Brussels, as the EU rolled out the red carpet for newly elected MEPs last week.
Two-party politics or that ‘new car feeling’ at the European Elections? It’s up to the voters
Voters have a clear choice on Thursday in the European elections. There is a fresh, bright option on the ballot paper to consider. So will you vote for more of the same, two-party political set up, with the same people, the same broken promises, the same tired structures, the same party games and the same waste of our taxpayers cash?
The British public are crying out for change. If only our politicians could be as bold
Trust in our politicians is at rock-bottom. The latest polling data shows the public increasingly want Brexit MPs to hold their nerve and bang the drum for leaving on WTO terms.
Taking no-deal Brexit off the table would be a disastrous betrayal of referendum
MPs rightly rejected the worst deal in history last night. This deal would have broken up our precious Union with Northern Ireland and flown in the face of the Good Friday Agreement by enslaving the country in a never-ending backstop.
Stop the betrayal of Brexit. Join us on the March to Leave.
The twenty-third of June 2016 was a historic victory of the people against the establishment; of belief against self doubt; of hope against fear.
Tory MPs must vote down any deal that fails to deliver a proper Brexit or the people will never forgive us
We are about to witness some of the most important political decisions certainly of our lifetimes and most probably since the fateful year of 1940.
Now is not the time for Brexiteers to go soft on the PM’s shoddy deal
More than ever, our MPs must be brave and hold out for what is right. This is no time for Brexiteers to go soft.
Robbins must go – the EU negotiations need a fresh face
I have recommended many times over the last 15 months that the Prime Minister should shake up her negotiating team and bring in competent, Brexit-believing supporters, including from the business world.
Time for the Prime Minister to pursue a “World Trade” Brexit
Having correctly ruled out a second referendum and a General Election, and with no chance of passing her own deal through Parliament, the Prime Minister is left with only one option for which she and the Government should now robustly prepare: a World Trade deal, from March 29, 2019.
Theresa May must show the Remain saboteurs who’s boss over Brexit
The threat issued today by the Remain campaign to launch a judicial review over whether Britain automatically leaves the EEA when it leaves the EU is another attack on the democratic will of the British people.
Why Leave Means Leave have launched a new campaign opposing ‘the worst deal in history’
It’s incredible. Less than two years ago the Prime Minister adopted the Leave Means Leave slogan “No deal is better than a bad deal” in her superb Lancaster House speech.
PM’s Brexit deal is worst deal anyone has ever proposed
Making predictions in politics is a fraught business. Events can move so fast. Anything can happen at the moment. As I write, the government is in chaos of its own making. There could be a leadership challenge on the PM at any moment.
May’s deal is the worst deal in history
Theresa May had always repeated what I have known to be true in business: “no deal is better than a bad deal”. But now, even in the face of multiple Cabinet resignations and growing anger among her Parliamentary colleagues at her proposed deal, her actions suggest she believes that any deal is better than a no deal.
It’s time to stop this betrayal of the people and relaunch the Brexit campaign
When we set up Leave Means Leave after the referendum, we thought it might be needed for six months. We hoped that we could trust the Government to do the job they had been instructed to do by the British people. People knew what they were voting for.
Forget Brexit and party scandals – business is booming
Three months ago, I wrote about the need to prepare for a very socialist Labour government. Since then, both the Labour party and the Tories have inflicted all sorts of harm on themselves thanks to their respective associations with antisemitism and Windrush.
- Crime ·
Let’s all do our bit to end the scourge of knife crime
Violent crime is tragically rising at an alarming rate. There was something clearly not right on the warm spring evening last month when I arrived to visit community organisers on one of the massive 1960s council estates dotted round north London.
We will not sit by as an unelected cartel tries to dismantle Brexit bit by bit
The challenges to Brexit yesterday in the unelected House of Lords were a direct attack on British democracy. By acting in such a manner, the Lords are accelerating the case for their own demise; more and more people would now view this as good news.
- Business ·
We cannot call for free markets, then pull up the drawbridge when it suits us
There has been a great deal of emotional noise around the new passport contract awarded to Gemalto by the Government, with patriotic chest-beating.
Start measuring the countdown to freedom and opportunity in days, not years
This week marks one year to go until the UK legally leaves the European Union and gets at least one hand on the keys to unlock the bloc’s protectionist prison door.
- Property ·
Attacking developers won’t solve Britain’s housing crisis
Brick by brick, Theresa May is rebuilding the dream of a home-owning democracy. It is a Conservative ideal that symbolises freedom and the opportunity for people to make the most of their lives.
- Property ·
Attacking developers won’t solve Britain’s housing crisis
Brick by brick, Theresa May is rebuilding the dream of a home-owning democracy. It is a Conservative ideal that symbolises freedom and the opportunity for people to make the most of their lives.
Show Brussels you mean business, Theresa, by sending for Jacob Rees-Mogg
Some 14 months ago, Theresa May gave the speech of her life at Lancaster House, when she set out a positive vision for a deep and special relationship with the European Union after we leave in March 2019.
University lecturers and Vice-Chancellors – more working, less whingeing, if you want sympathy
University lecturers and their highly paid Vice-Chancellors seem far more focused on their own remuneration packages than looking after their customers, the students.
Time to get our heads around idea of Labour government
Property has always had a love-hate relationship with the Labour Party. At times the industry, both residential and commercial, as well as construction and infrastructure, does very well. Remember that at other times, though, Labour causes pain, disruption and chaos.
This negotiation was our Isandlwana. Now let’s have a Rorke’s Drift.
Whilst Conservative MPs try to present last week’s agreement with the EU as a success, the country knows the truth. This has been a catalogue of unforced errors of our negotiators own making.
We need to control immigration in a fair and flexible way post-Brexit
23rd June 2016 marked a potential turning point in the future of the UK’s immigration policy. For decades, consecutive governments were unable to control our borders and reduce overall levels of net migration.
Brexit doom-mongers have been proved wrong
After my last two articles this year avoided the subject, I make no apology for returning to Brexit.
Brussels cannot be allowed to boss Britain around — it’s time we showed how ready we are to walk away | The Telegraph
The party of business could reasonably be expected to know how to negotiate, or know which expert friends to bring in to help. Clearly not, based on progress to date on Brexit.
I fear Theresa May has now given the EU no incentive to agree to anything
The Prime Minister’s carefully crafted speech in Florence rightly oozed warmth and partnership as one would expect. Ministers and Tory MPs were supportive for obvious…
- Property ·
Other side of the bridge
The defence of the ditched Garden Bridge by Paul Finch was interesting to read and hear the other side of the story.
Brexit will bring us closer to the antipodean cousins we wrongly cold-shouldered
When Napoleon Bonaparte brought France under his control a little over two hundred years ago, he came up with a simple plan for dealing with the pesky British, who were holding out against domination by a foreign power.
- Property ·
Self-regulation is better than government intervention
Experience shows that the longer sharp practices that rip off people or other businesses continue, the bigger the fall when the government intervenes.
Thanks To Brexit, We Can Celebrate A Year Of Economic Success
A year ago, the nation voted to regain its sovereign independence, to get its mojo back, to have a global vision. Brave people around the country chose to ignore the absurd, cataclysmic warnings from the Davos elite.
Ignore the pro-EU propaganda – a clean, swift Brexit is within our reach
The failure of the Conservative Party to secure a majority at the general election was seized upon by anti-democratic politicians and the pro-Remain media to peddle a narrative that Brexit was finished and Britain would somehow remain subject to EU rule.
- Business ·
Introduce an online delivery tax to save the high street
There is a massive elephant in the real estate room that many in the industry dare not admit and most in government and local authorities have not really woken up to, let alone addressed.
- Property ·
AREF report: no lessons learned
AREF’s latest report assessing the impact of the Brexit vote on UK real estate and the funds industry is complacent and protects the vested interests of those who instructed it.
Of course no deal is better than a bad deal – I hope Theresa May has not abandoned this stance
The Prime Minister’s invoking of Article 50 today is a promising start to a chapter that will define our national renewal, a destiny chosen by the British people on June 23 last year – but we must treat it with caution, knowing that the job of leaving the EU is not yet done, it is only just beginning.
- Business ·
Stop complaining! We need to focus on creating growth
Imagine you have been stranded on a desert island for three years with no news or internet whatsoever and have returned to the UK on the first day of 2017.
Trump and Brexit present opportunities despite hurdles
It was clear to me in July, just after the Brexit vote at the Trump Republican convention in the struggling Ohio city of Cleveland, that the similarities were enormous and that Trump was very likely to win
The positive lessons for the UK from the impending failure of the EU-Canada trade deal
What lessons can we learn from the impending failure of the CETA free trade deal between Canada and the EU, other than the obvious fact that our ever-pessimistic news broadcasters are, in reporting the development, looking through the wrong end of the telescope by suggesting it is bad news for the UK?
The Treasury has completely misjudged the economic realities of Brexit
The leaked Treasury paper suggesting a ‘hard’ Brexit could cost HM Treasury £66 billion a year in tax revenues is simply not credible. Indeed, the Treasury have got it the wrong way round.
- Property ·
REITs put open-ended property funds to shame
Should the property industry be embarrassed that, post Brexit vote, some of its main domestic-property-owning institutions have been involved in a mini flash crash, caused by fundamentally flawed open-ended fund structures?
Brexit: the anxiety, the reality and the dividend
So the political and corporate establishment’s recommendation has been rejected by the people and the recriminations are flying as I write.
- Business ·
Brexit would open up a world of opportunity for the UK
As co-chair of the largest Brexit campaign, www.leave.eu, which has more than 750,000 supporters, it has been an extraordinary, intimidating experience taking on the establishment on behalf of the people.
- Economy ·
Richard Tice: Let UK embrace the world, not just Europe | Evening Standard
As co-chair of the largest Brexit campaign, www.leave.eu, which has more than 750,000 supporters, it has been an extraordinary, intimidating experience taking on the establishment on behalf of the people.
Leave is stronger than ever
The Leave campaign is stronger than ever and had a big boost last weekend, with six cabinet ministers backing Brexit, including justice secretary Michael Gove, together with London mayor Boris Johnson.
- Property ·
Could global market turmoil make property the new gold?
This time last year, I said 2015 could be a vintage year for real estate and indeed it was.
- Property ·
Corbyn: a potential win-win for real estate
The election of Jeremy Corbyn could be an unexpected force for good for UK real estate. We may end up thanking him.
Business is wrong – Brexit would benefit us all
Markets are often wrong, particularly when the consensus thinking seems unstoppable.
How the EU renegotiation strategy of a Tory-led administration should work
So far, it has been Labour that has sought to make the UK’s membership of the European Union a General Election issue, using its commitment to remaining in and its rejection of a referendum on membership as evidence of its support for business. But is it really as simple as that?
Relax: the election will not trouble UK plc
Only real gamblers would bet on a majority government of either colour given the polls.
Scaremongering exposes the weaknesses of EU membership
The scaremongering about leaving the European Union is unrelenting – and it is wholly wrong.
- Property ·
It could be a vintage year for real estate
As we trickle back to work, we should prepare for an extraordinary 12 months ahead in politics, the economy and real estate.
Switzerland offers the model for our new relationship with the EU
Despite all the sound and fury about the EU’s surcharge the truth is somewhat different – but no better for that – the UK’s net contribution is rising and will continue to do so.
