Since the Prime Minister’s speech at Lancaster House in January, it has been Government policy to deliver Brexit by withdrawing the UK from both the Single Market and the Customs Union.
2017 marked the 20th year that I have served as Member of Parliament for North Shropshire. It was a great honour to be re-elected in June with an increased mandate for the sixth consecutive time.
The agreement that Theresa May and the EU Commission made during phase 1 of the Brexit negotiations allows the talks to move forward. But nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and there are obvious causes for concern.
The idea of EU citizens 'protected' by the ECJ would create a privileged class of three million people with rights in this country enforced by a court beyond Parliament
In recent weeks, we have become used to unreasonable demands from the European Commission, from their refusal to discuss trade to the seemingly arbitrary size of the “divorce bill”.
On 23rd June 2016, 17.4 million people in Britain voted to leave the European Union, more than have ever voted for any issue or political party in our history.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his Autumn Budget to Parliament on 22nd November. He began his speech by highlighting that the UK economy is forming a new relationship with our European neighbours and we are on a path to a new future outside the European Union.
