The criticisms of the India FTA are based on a series of misunderstandings. 🔴"Easier immigration". No. There is nothing in this deal about migration. Nothing. There is an extension of the CATEGORIES under which people can apply for work permits, but the total number can still be

Daniel Hannan capx.co/ignore-the-dou…

I have always felt that the only way to get a good trade deal between a Republican Administration and a Labour Government is for it to have visible bipartisan support on both sides of the Atlantic. Last month, I led a cross-party delegation of MPs to meet their counterparts in

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Of all the commitments/capitulations made today, that on energy feels likely to be the most consequential - and also the most likely cause for a future British government to break with this agreement.

State pension costs £152bn a year, rising to £190bn by 2050. This is unaffordable, especially since number of working age taxpayers will fall. Yet even minor reform—saving £1.5bn on winter fuel allowance—has been scrapped in response to political pressure. This does not bode well

This drives me to my most conspiratorial instincts. There surely has to be some secret reasoning here. It can't just be a huge unforced multi-billion pound UK liability agreed to in the spirit of 'decolonisation'. It's like something out of a right-wing declinist fever dream.

Starmer is correct. We can't tax our way to growth. But we can *tax reform* our way to growth. Some ideas:

Every country has a national foundational myth. For America it’s 1776. Japan has the Meiji restoration. In Britain, however, through recent decades (and without a revolution) we have allowed a modern foundational myth to take hold. The country didn’t begin with the Celts, the

It’s beyond ironic that our base on Diego Garcia is at the heart of the biggest geopolitical calculation for years *immediately* after Labour have gifted sovereignty to a Chinese ally👇

We are delighted to announce that Robert Jenrick has joined us as a parliamentary patron. Robert is a keen supporter of CANZUK and we look forward to working with him to make it Party policy. Our director, Elliott Malik 🌳🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧, took the opportunity to thank him personally yesterday.

New piece out in The Mace about the risks of new tobacco legislation for Northern Ireland

Thank you Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 for heroically sacrificing your economy to save the planet 💪 _

"If we look at the prosperity that Britain is supposed to be celebrating - it's built off the back of slavery, genocide, colonialism" -There we go again.

A reminder that the Rwanda scheme was paid for, ready and already starting to have a deterrent effect when Labour cancelled it in a virtue-signalling strop. The facilities there are now being used to house illegal immigrants - from the US.

With two parents on £50k, take-home pay is £79,000. After childcare and rent, they're left with £24,800. A family on benefits renting the same house would clear £30,000 after rent with no need for childcare. You are better off on benefits than on a household income of £100k.

Britain is no longer a credible tier one force. Economic stagnation, energy mismanagement, & high taxation have gutted industry, logistics, & troop numbers. Without growth, defence spending alone cannot close the gap. My essay in DefenceUK 1/11 defenceuk.weebly.com

Great exposé by Daniel Hannan of a government minister, who acknowledges that tobacco duty is driving adverse, avoidant behaviour. Will it be cut in the budget? youtu.be/wyF1NMfK6l4?si…

Tacking unnecessary human rights clauses onto trade deals makes them harder to sign and does little to help the causes they purport to serve. All it achieves is to derail trade talks and harm our influence with global partners. 👇👇👇👇 youtu.be/X_xLnMovtNg?si…

When Labour announced VAT on private school fees, they promised it would raise £1.7 billion for state schools. With 25,000 pupils already forced out, eight times more than predicted, the policy is on track to cost taxpayers money rather than raise it. A thread🧵