Richard Corbett

‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU? The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name

‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am about to go on
LBC radio to discuss the need for Labour’s re-set with the EU to go much further and faster…

‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’

Confirmation that Trump is actively supporting far-right parties across Europe, peddling false narratives, and hoping to destroy the European Union
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US US vice president says EU should not be ‘attacking American companies over garbage.’

EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X for breaking the law, despite threats from Trump :

www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

World trade, transatlantic relations and the EU-UK 'Reset': The FT's Peter Foster concludes that without rejoining the single market and the custolms union, UK growth will stagnate | Encompass Podcasts url:https://encompass-europe.com/podcasts/world-trade-transatlantic-relations-and-the-eu-uk-reset

Reform UK gets record £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives

This record-breaking donation shows how dependent our parties have become on a super-rich few. It reinforces the belief that money talks loudest in the corridors of power.

The Government promised to protect democracy. It's time to introduce a cap on political donations.
www.ft.com/content/db73...

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit

Because of Brexit, the exchequer “will lose the thick end of £100bn in tax revenues this year”

Far from having to raise £26bn in extra taxes, Rachel Reeves could have raised spending on health, defence, infrastructure, etc and still had money to spare…
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...

UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money

At last!
Continued British participation in Esrasmus was part of the Withdrawal Agreement, signed by Johnson, but which he later, in a fit of cultural vandalism, refused to implement once Brexit was enacted
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The “closer relationship with the EU” is indeed vital, but needs to be far-reaching to have any significant economic (and political) benefits

*GARGANTUAN* 💥

Economist for Brexit admits

🟥 Brexit made Britain poorer
🟥 Biz investment collapsed
🟥 Productivity weakened
🟥 EU-facing firms cut jobs & spending
🟥 Trade barriers drag economy down
🟥 Brexit deepened fiscal crisis
🟥 No meaningful upsides
🟥 The damage undeniable in data

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Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU

Negotiating with our European neighbours as an outsider, instead of as an equal partner around the EU table, inevitably leaves Britain with a weaker hand

Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all | Rafael Behr Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

“Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all” | Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU

New analysis by the politically neutral House of Commons library says that Brexit:

- cost the average Briton between £2,700 and £3,700

- lost the Treasury up to £90bn a year tax revenue.

Rachel Reeves budget options could have been very different!

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

The Economic Impact of Brexit Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The Economic Impact of Brexit even worse than previously thought says an American study
www.nber.org/papers/w34459

In the same week the Covid Inquiry concluded that introducing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives and a former Reform politician was jailed for accepting Russian bribes, #bbclaurak hasn’t expended a single second talking about it

That is absolutely appalling

Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

“Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof”, says Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.

The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.

Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

BBC

Bias is often in the eye of the beholder

So let’s stick to measurable facts

During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times

Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority

47 were from UKIP/BP

23 times Farage

John Major labels Brexit an 'act of collective folly' John Major has launched a devastating attack on Brexit, branding it an "act of collective folly."

John Major labels Brexit an ‘act of collective folly’

'Britain's enemies celebrated and our friends despaired.'

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/joh...

Millionaires call on Rachel Reeves to raise their taxes in Budget Two wealthy businessmen say the chancellor should make them pay more ahead of the Budget.

Millionaires say they should more tax…

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Nigel Farage 'risks trade war' with Brussels over major benefit cut plans Reform leader Nigel Farage says he would end Universal Credit payments for EU citizens - leading to warnings it would spark a trade war with Brussels and push up prices

Those Reform plans in full:
- Torpedo our largest trading relationship
- ⁠Leave millions of EU citizens in limbo
- ⁠Sell out Brits living abroad
- ⁠Spend years negotiating another Brexit mess

Thanks Nigel 👍

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The Economic Impact of Brexit Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The Economic Impact of Brexit even worse than previously thought says an American study
www.nber.org/papers/w34459

BBC

Bias is often in the eye of the beholder

So let’s stick to measurable facts

During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times

Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority

47 were from UKIP/BP

23 times Farage

'It's Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media' Says Leader of the UK's Trade Union Movement TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC

🔴‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...

🚨UPDATE WITH COMMENT FROM THE BBC: Byline Times can confirm that of the four-person BBC panel that interviewed Prescott and made the decision to appoint him as an advisor, three of them had longstanding Conservative Party ties. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

🚨📉 Major new paper by Stanford professor Nick Bloom and coauthors.

They find Brexit has:

⬇️ Reduced UK GDP by 6-8%

⬇️ Reduced investment by 12-18%

⬇️ Reduced employment by 3-4%

⬇️ Reduced productivity by 3-4%