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This week I resigned my position as a Minister in the Government Whips’ Office so I could vote against the Government on the implementation of the European Withdrawal Agreement. This agreement does not respect the outcome of the referendum and does not provide us with Brexit. Over the past few weeks…

During the past year one issue has dominated politics in this country – the issue of Brexit. As Parliament finished for the Christmas break last week, MPs went home to their constituencies and when they return in January, the future of the deal proposed by the Government will be decided.…

The EU and Theresa May’s ‘deal’ has dominated the news in Westminster this week. Although this proposal has been called a ‘deal’, it is in fact a trigger for the EU Council to meet this weekend and decide whether to endorse the proposed agreement.   Whilst there are some positive aspects to the agreement, there…

This week we will see The European Council meeting take place, which was seen as the meeting where an agreement between the EU and the UK could be reached. Contrary to some media reports, there was no agreement that Dominic Raab was due to sign last Sunday and indeed it is…