On the 1st January 2019, there will be 87 days before we leave the European Union. There is, therefore, much to look forward to in the coming year.

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.

The ECJ should have no role post-Brexit, and “alignment” must not be used to keep us in the Single Market 

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

By Owen Paterson, ex Environment Secretary

10th December 2017

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.

Since publishing its position paper on the issue in August, the UK Government has been unequivocal that it has no desire to impose a “hard border” between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; it will maintain both the Common Travel Area and the Belfast Agreement.

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This evening, I will be discussing Brexit at a conference in Hamburg.

At the last General Election I promised to campaign to improve road, rail, broadband and mobile phone communications across North Shropshire. 

Rural economies are diversifying fast and Government must work with all forms of providers to improve communications.