Mark English

72.8% of businesses have been negatively impacted by Brexit. Figure from European Movement UK Business Impact Report, 2025

Without access to the Single Market and Customs Union, businesses across the country are struggling. It’s time to fix that.

Say what you like about Trump - and believe me, I do! But he might be saving us from any chance of Farage ever becoming PM....

Sam the much-loved former Gare du Midi horse zebra has escaped from horse zebra Guantanamo and galloped to Boitsfort racecourse.... #horsezebra #Brussels

Is he bringing his chainsaw? To help Trump chop up common sense and decency?

UK needs to be inside this European tent - it's freezing outside

Widers, Farage, different hairstyle, same dictatorial style....
www.politico.eu/article/neth...

"Europe is where our security and prosperity lie, and that is the basis on which we should build."

Sir Nick Harvey, CEO of @europeanmovement.co.uk

If they halved the price of those delicious but very expensive open sandwiches, Copenhagen would be paradise

every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them

- My wife and I went to Indonesia on holiday this year.
- Jakarta?
- No, we went by air.
#oldiesarethebest

I was urged to apply to be deputy political editor of the Daily Mail....

[Report] The UK and the European Environment Agency: Practical Considerations on Closer Cooperation - IEEP UK This briefing is part of a series that is exploring the merits of the UK re-engaging with, or ultimately re-joining the EEA and Eionet. Our first paper on this topic, published in 2024, outlined the b...

A really useful new report from @ieep-uk.bsky.social on merits of a renewed cooperation between the UK & the European Environment Agency (EEA)🌱📈
Also looks in depth at other non-EU members including Switzerland & Turkey. Read full policy paper here @europeanmovement.co.uk 👇
ieep.uk/publications...

Stark picture from @ieep-uk.bsky.social of how UK is losing out post Brexit on access to EU environmental data and analysis. Easy to put that right by re-joining the European Environment Agency...other non-EU states have.
ieep.uk/publications...

The Tories are becoming a subs bench for Reform. The solution is to return to sanity, the centre and pro-Europeanism.

How about they stand by and stick up for their longstanding principles and confront far right wreckers?

Brexit has burdened businesses such as Broughton Transport with unnecessary paperwork and bureaucracy, and this is what leaving the single market looks like: chaos, delays, and excessive barriers to trade.

Yesterday evening we were delighted to be joined by Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Paymaster General and Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations, at our Parliamentary reception. He spoke on the importance of programmes such as Erasmus+, and joined us in celebrating our return in 2027.

'Eventful' here = catalogue of failure.

Having policy red lines that last a 5 year term of government does not seem viable in a rapidly changing world. UK needs to be inside the EU single market even more than it did in 2024. And it is likely a majority would now support that.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

European - including British - core values are under concerted attack from within + without. UK's best chance of withstanding that attack - and best contribution to helping allies withstand it - is to get closer to, then join, EU. And defend those values inside EU + against its external adversaries.

Wouldn't be the first time, to be fair.

From the Commission's single market site. Maybe take your point up with the EC, where I worked for 25 years (and with Council, EP and other EU institutions)? Meanwhile, if good enough for them to say EEA countries are in single market, it is good enough for me. commission.europa.eu/topics/singl...

30th anniversary of the EU single market The European single market was established on 1 January 1993 and guarantees the free movement of goods, services, people and capital in the EU.

It is common shorthand, used by EU institutions themselves, to describe EEA countries as in the single market. And nowhere does the article claim that would remove 'all trade barriers". Just more than being in CU alone. So don't be so condescending. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infograph...

Did you know?

🍃 Paper can be made from fallen leaves instead of trees.
🍎 Aloe vera edible coatings keep fruit & vegetables fresh without plastic.

Find out how EU-funded Research & Innovation brings sustainable bioeconomy solutions for a greener future: op.europa.eu/s/Abe2

Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to Venezuela ‘terrible’ for climate, experts warn ‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say

Crazed orange-tinted reality TV host destroys world? Latest schlock horror movie is completely unbelievable, say one-star reviews across the board.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The best way to get closer to the Single Market is to join it, Prime Minister! Now is the time for the Prime Minister to argue forcefully not just for alignment with bits and pieces of the world’s biggest market, but for joining the whole thing again.

Let's cut out the hesitancy and baby steps and make the case for seeking to join the EU single market - as soon as there is a mandate from voters. And let's embrace the free movement of people as an opportunity for millions of Brits and an economic boost.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/starmer_join...

All good things come to an end....

The best way to get closer to the Single Market is to join it, Prime Minister!

“Now is the time for the Prime Minister to argue forcefully not just for alignment with bits and pieces of the world’s biggest market, but for joining the whole thing again.” Click on the link below to read more 📖