David Cameron, the former British prime minister toppled by his defeat in the Brexit referendum, has used a paid speaking engagement in Bangkok, Thailand, to criticise U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders on travel as “misconceived from the very outset”.
Just when you thought the scaremongering couldn’t get any worse, the leaders of the G7 nations have weighed in with their verdict on Britain’s EU referendum: apparently if the UK votes Leave it’s going to kill the global economy.
The EU is “arrogant and unaccountable”; EU membership makes Britain “literally ungovernable”; the EU is “anti-market” and “stifles competition with its statism, corporatism and bureaucracy”; it’s “perfectly obvious to everyone” that the EU is incapable of reform; Britain will be
David Cameron’s Brokeback-Mountain-style relationship with the European Union (EU) is paying dividends: the pal he appointed as Britain’s EU Commissioner has ridden to the edge of the swamp, cast a lasso over the besmirched prime minister and begun heaving him
Jeremy Clarkson has just lopped off his privates in public. It wasn’t an edifying sight. I’m trying to think of an analogy that captures the enormity of what Clarkson has just done. In terms of sheer cringeworthiness, I suppose it would be
(AFP) – European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker refused Tuesday to entertain the idea of a British exit from the European Union, saying there is no “plan B” ahead of talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Juncker, head of the
Tempers are fraying in the House of Commons as the ten hour Syria debate on whether or not to carry out airstrikes against Islamic State begins. Members of Parliament will vote this evening; if the motion is successful, the first
The British government’s devious, cynical, hypocritical energy policy has just unravelled horribly – with the leak to The Ecologist of a private ministerial letter which admits that Britain hasn’t a hope of meeting its legally-mandated “clean energy” targets. Officially, Britain’s line is that
The British government has just announced plans to spend £6 billion of taxpayers money so that people in the Third World can buy more green energy in order to cope with ‘climate change’. Maybe it’s time the Conservatives changed their
Here are two stories which show how badly we are losing the war against green fundamentalism: The first, courtesy of Christopher Booker, concerns the British government’s attempts to rush through a truly insane plan for a £1 billion tidal lagoon
What a fussy lot some of you are. Last week, the left in England experienced one of its most stunning reverses since Margaret Thatcher crushed the Miners’ Strike. We saw the defenestration of George Galloway, Ed Davey, Vince Cable, Ed
Who are you going to vote for on Thursday? For me, it’s a real toughie. My local Conservative candidate Chris Heaton Harris is both a personal friend and exactly the kind of principled and sound candidate I’d like to see
Suppose you were a right-thinking BBC journalist, understandably anxious to foment the approved Labour narrative that the Conservatives are the party of rich, out-of-touch toffs, and you were presented with a rare opportunity to interview David Cameron. Which telling question
As Islamic State militants establish a foothold in Libya, Britain has been warned to brace itself for ‘boats full of terrorists’ by Egypt’s Ambassador to the UK. Nasser Kamel made the comments after 2,163 migrants were rescued at sea in
British Prime Minister David Cameron opened up a new front in his battle for re-election as he pledged the UK would have the highest employment rate in the G7. Speaking at a press conference in Ipswich, the Prime Minister committed
Health, immigration and the economy far outstrip other issues in terms of importance to voters, a new poll by YouGov for the Times Red Box has found. However, the pollsters yesterday discovered that issues come second in voters’ minds to
Mere weeks after Miliband was accused of wanting to ‘weaponise’ the NHS – a phrase which he has not denied using – patients and doctors working in Labour-run NHS Wales have called on him to stop being hypocritical, and to
David Cameron’s plans to cap the number of migrants from the EU coming to Britain were dropped from a key speech after protests by Angela Merkel, Government sources say. The German Chancellor, who is meeting with the Prime Minister in
Eurosceptic cabinet ministers are clamouring for David Cameron to let them join the NO side in a referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the European Union, and are concerned that the strategy of negotiations followed by a vote will effectively
