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  The outgoing French Ambassador to the UK, Sylvie Bermann, commented recently that Britain was talking to itself about Brexit and no-one else.  And maybe that is right: we are having a conversation – though a bad-tempered shouting match might be more accurate – about who we are as a country.  Still, endless navel-gazing and repetition of the same old slogans is tiresome.  So here are three topics our political leaders (and others) might usefully address. Overmighty barons A number…

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Picture credit: House of Commons twitter feed. Pundits often refer to hardfought Parliamentary votes being a numbers game.  The phrase comes from the name given in the US to lotteries.  In a hung Parliament, that is more apposite than usual. The current government does not enjoy the benefit of a Parliamentary majority and has some controversial measures to get through, particularly on Brexit.  So let’s take a look at some of the Parliamentary tribes that Mrs M will need to…

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YouGov have released some pan-European polling when it comes to how some of our EU allies would view us remaining in the EU. YouGov note New YouGov Eurotrack data reveals that it is not just the British public that want the UK to leave the European Union; French people want Brexit, too. A  plurality of people in France say they would rather that Britain left the EU than stayed in it (38% to 32%). Of the six EU nations surveyed, only in…

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Some Tories are floating the idea that Britain might leave Brexit talks with no deal in the end. That’s not good enough says Keiran Pedley. Labour must make clear that if it looks like the government cannot deliver a Brexit deal, then they will call a vote of no confidence. As Westminster goes ‘back to school’ it is safe to say that Brexit talks are not going particularly well. A war of words has broken out between chief Brexit negotiator…

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