Wednesday 3 October 2018

UKIP Watford Street Stall

Saturday, 13th October 2018 - 10am - 1pm

Watford High Street, Near "The Moon Under Water Pub"
 

Special Guest  - Stuart Agnew MEP

 

Please come along and join the debate with Stuart 

 
We are leaving the EU at 11pm on 29th March 2018 but...
 
We believe we should leave the EU under WTO rules and without paying the EU a penny.
 
We truly believe that LEAVE means LEAVE
 
Please come along and say hello and join the debate
 
 
Interesting fact.....
..did you Know Watford voted to leave the EU with the smallest majority in the UK..
Vote Leave won by just 252 votes. (0.54% Majority)
 

 

Here’s what Theresa May needs to do to win over sceptical Brexiteers
3rd October 2018
Dominic Raab has come out with a bold and unequivocal statement that EU intransigence (or an over-playing of its hand) may force the UK into adopting some sort of no-deal exit from the EU. He also has reiterated that no deal is not to be feared. This is to be welcomed.
The current impasse around the Chequers White Paper deserves a similar laser-like approach in order both to provide the Prime Minister with a route to a satisfactory Brexit and also to offer the country the possibility of achieving an outcome approaching that it which it voted for.
It is quite remarkable that at present the lack of clarity around Chequers provides much of the ammunition for its critics, of whom I am one, and yet if this were to be the basis of a solution to the question of Brexit, much of the material for that solution may lie within the proposal. It may simply be that the cast-iron and explicit parameters of Chequers have remained hidden for the purposes of negotiation. If this is so, now is the moment to unveil its true meaning. There will be no other opportunity like this and No. 10 should not over play its hand domestically, lest it be fatal to both the PM and to Brexit.
Of course, this entirely presupposes that the Prime Minister actually believes in the merits of Brexit and wishes sincerely to deliver it; such is the lack of transparent resolve, even this is not clear. 
One of the unspoken and unspeakable drivers of the Government’s current position is the Irish border question. In essence, we have the bizarre situation that fear of the IRA is in danger of shackling the UK forever to the EU. What Mrs Thatcher would have made of this, one can only speculate on. This is even more perverse, given the facts of the border question.
It is no use pretending that there will not be a border after Brexit – but it need not be visible. In fact, there is a border operating now for such things as currency, excise, tax etc. There is even a border between Great Britain and the island of Ireland for certain animal health issues. However, just as these are invisible, so can be the border for people and for products.
 
For people, as long as the Republic and the UK are not in the Schengen Zone and therefore all passports are checked on entry to the British Isles, there is no need for a people border at all on the island of Ireland. 
For products, any checks can be carried out at the point of destination, provided electronic paperwork is issued at the point of dispatch. Across the world only 2% of goods are checked at borders, even between countries that have no trade arrangements. The border would be invisible.
This surely must be a more pragmatic alternative to the complex customs arrangements of Chequers. 
What makes this shibboleth even more absurd is that the Prime Minister’s own fall-back position, a no-deal Brexit, would lead to a so-called hard border, albeit this would be invisible in practice. So, why is it OK for one solution but not the other?
In respect of the rest of Chequers, I would prescribe a clear, unequivocal and cast-iron declaration in order to stand any chance of winning over rightly sceptical Brexiteers – and soon.
Mrs May must first make it clear that she would now vote for Brexit and is embracing the opportunities it affords. 
She must also guarantee that the common rule book would not extend beyond product standards to other areas of regulation – e.g. services, environment, employment law, social policy etc. – and that there will be no commitment to participation in a European military structure.
I would also have said that she must articulate a clear and bold declaration on migration, removing discrimination in favour of the EU and setting out a framework for choosing who comes to Britain, including limitation of migrants into low skill jobs – but she and the Home Secretary appear to have done this yesterday.
Meanwhile the current Chancellor and the Treasury must set out a positive vision for a post-Brexit Britain or the Chancellor should be replaced by one who will. There should be a clear declaration of intent to make the very best of the Brexit opportunities, a declaration of what the post-Brexit economy would look like, such as the unilateral removal of tariffs to reduce the cost of living, a business-friendly tax environment for entrepreneurs (rather than just multinationals), infrastructure investment, housing investment and using the Brexit dividend to boost the economy and growth.
There must be a declared intent to pursue trade deals around the world immediately upon Brexit. A cast-iron guarantee on the removal of the ECJ from our affairs would need to be part of any deal. And it would require the proper ownership by the UK of fishing and the reform of CAP.
This would also then raise the question as to why an implementation period would be necessary, especially given the the PM’s fall-back, a no-deal exit, would be implemented immediately, which is after all what people want. 
All of this would still leave many entrepreneurs and business owners dissatisfied that those who operate domestically or only export to the rest of the world (the vast majority of businesses) would be tied to a rule book of product standards.
If all of this were achieved and such an imperfect Brexit was felt to be worth it, what would be the likelihood of the EU accepting this à la carte approach to Britain’s relationship?  I dare say that only if these things were done would it stand any chance of being accepted by Parliament.
All in all, a no-deal option is looking more and more attractive. It is certainly something not to be feared and while it might be inconvenient to certain sectors of the economy for a short while, it would provide a world of opportunity.
Furthermore, in the event, no-deal may only mean no trade deal, as much of the rest has already been agreed. It would mean we have truly departed the EU, have complete freedom and a trade arrangement could then be negotiated from a position of strength.
Written by
John Longworth
John Longworth was formerly Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce and Chairman of the Vote Leave Business Council and is now Co-Chairman of Leave Means Leave. He is also on the Advisory Board of Economists for Free Trade and the IEA.
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Friday 28 September 2018

 

UKIP  Street Stand

South Oxhey

Saturday, 29th September, 2018

10:00am - 12:00noon
 
 
Prestwick Road (where the shop's are being demolished at the back end near the library).
 
Please come along to help with leaflets or just stop by and say hello

Thursday 13 September 2018

A Full English Brexit

 
 
 
Patrick O’Flynn MEP’s ‘Full English BREXIT’ Patrick O’Flynn MEP is pleased to be putting on a series of evening events across the region over the Autumn. Each event will hear from Patrick and guest speakers about BREXIT and the way
 
 
Theresa May is selling-out Brexit. She has conned the country and conned her own party too.
She plans just to rebadge our membership of the EU and carry on without proper control of our laws,our borders or our own money.
Instead, she aims to tie us to the EU’s rulebook permanently.
Come and join the fight to save Brexit from her deviousness and deceit.
Throughout the autumn Patrick O’Flynn MEP will be holding a series of public meetings across the East of England explaining:
  • Why Mrs May’s Chequers plan fulfils none of the key tests for a real Brexit that UKIP set in 2017
  • How a concerted fightback can make the Government ditch the disaster and instead be true to the wishes of the 17.4 million people who voted to Leave the EU.
  • What you can do to help at this vital time in our nation’s history.
As usual, Patrick will be joined by a variety of guest speakers during the meetings, which will take place in Downham Market, Great Baddow,
Bury St Edmunds, Peterborough, Bedford and Hertford.
Brexit is in danger. We are sending out an SOS. Please help us to save it.
YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE FIGHT TO SAVE BREXIT HERE:
SEPT 18th Downham Market Town Hall, 6 Market Place, Bridge St, Downham Market PE38 9DE, 7PM
OCT 8th Marconi Club, Tydesman, Great Baddow, Chelmsford CM2 9FH, 7PM
OCT 29th Great Northern Hotel, Station Approach, Peterborough PE1 1QL, 7PM
NOV 6TH Athenaeum, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds IP33 1LU, 7PM
NOV 19TH Harpur Suite, 3 Harpur Street, Bedford MK40 1LE, 7PM
NOV 26TH Hertford Corn Exchange, 39 Fore St, Hertford SG14 1AL, 7PM
All FREE Entry
For further inquiries, please call 01733 891640 or email Patrick.oflynn@europarl.europa.eu
 

Wednesday 12 September 2018

A World Trade Deal



Today Economists For Free Trade publish A World Trade Deal: The Complete Guide, namely a WTO-based exit from the EU. This has been made necessary by two things: the mess in our negotiations with the EU on the basis of Mrs. May’s ill-fated Chequers proposals and the widespread ignorance among our politicians – not to speak of the general public – about the WTO and its workings.

What we show in great detail in a series of responses to some two dozen frequently-met questions, is that a WTO-based exit from the EU without an explicit EU trade deal is highly advantageous to the UK’s economy, to ordinary people generally and also to the public finances, besides delivering a Brexit in line with the referendum result. We have called it a World Trade Deal to emphasise the fact that the WTO-based legal order already constitutes a ‘deal’ and is far from the concept of ‘no deal’, with all its implications of disorder.

The Chequers proposals subject UK farming and manufacturing to EU Single Market regulations and also agree to maintain social (including labour) and environmental regulations currently mandated by the EU, which govern much of the activity across the whole economy. This means that we cannot alter these EU standards, many of which discriminate against non-EU suppliers such as the US, when we enter into Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), with the rest of the world; we can reduce or eliminate tariffs but we cannot eliminate the protection created by EU standards.

The New Customs Partnership Mark 2 now supposedly makes setting lower or zero tariffs on non-EU FTA partners feasible; however, doubts remain about the practicality of this proposal too. Finally, some formula about enhanced EU migration in the proposals implies that there will also be free migration in some degree from the EU; the EU may well also ask us for a financial contribution to the ‘upkeep’ of the EU’s rule book.

Could Canada+ offer a negotiated EU trade deal?

There is a far better route to a negotiated EU trade deal: Canada+. To understand the World Trade Deal, it is helpful first to go through how the Canada+ deal would work.

Canada+ would mean we would have zero tariffs between the UK and the EU, and also zero non-tariff barriers, together with freedom to see whatever standards were best for the UK home market. Standards on EU exports would of course remain in place as those mandated by the EU; standards on UK imports would be free for us to determine as part of our domestic decisions on standards. If we liberalised these to permit goods from non-EU countries to be sold here, we would not discriminate against EU imports – they would be free to impose their own current EU standards, which would also meet our new liberalised standards which would be more embracing of variety from around the world.

What then of the threatened surge in barriers between us and the EU that the Chequers proposals are supposed to avoid? The simple point is that there is no such threat. Any such surge would be completely illegal under WTO rules. Border procedures must be seamless and effectively costless; if existing standards on both sides are met by industry, as they already are, then there can be no sudden withdrawal of trade permissions.

What has happened in our internal political debate is that extreme ignorance of how the WTO works has allowed Project Fear to take hold among industrialists and the Civil Service interacting with them. They have assumed that the WTO world is a lawless world in which ‘hostile governments’ can ‘make trouble’. Yet WTO law is plain – it mandates seamless border procedures and outlaws discrimination on standards. Furthermore, no-one in their right mind would claim that either the UK or the EU would defy international law: both make a particular point of adhering to it, given the centrality of international law to the Treaties on which both take their stands.
Canada+ delivers to us substantial economic gains over the long term: an extra 7% on GDP, the equivalent of an extra 0.5% annual average growth over the decade and a half after Brexit. These gains come: 4% from achieving free trade around the world, 2% from setting our own regulations and the rest from controlling unskilled immigration and eliminating our EU budget contribution. Because the Treasury’s revenues are boosted by 10%, there are further second-round gains to be had from ending austerity and bringing in tax cuts. Finally, all households gain directly from prices falling 8%, with the poorest households gaining 15% from both falling prices and the end of mass unskilled immigration.

Why a World Trade Deal is the best deal for the UK

However, it may well be that Canada+ deal will not be agreed, either by the EU or by our fractious government or Parliament. It is at this point that we strongly recommend the World Trade Deal where we have no EU trade deal at all but simply trade with the EU as we do with all other countries outside the EU’s ambit. In fact, this will occur by default if no EU trade deal can be agreed by all sides. As we will explain, it brings us all the same economic gains as Canada+, but with some helpful additions.

The reasons for these gains are the same as under Canada+: ‘access’ to the EU market for us and for the EU to ours is protected under WTO rules. The border must be seamless and as we each satisfy each other’s export product standards there can be no denial of recognition of each other’s standards without breaching the rules on non-discrimination.

The only impediment to our trade will be tariffs on goods each way. These are on average rather low, at around 4%. However they will have a negative effect: on the EU, not on us. To understand why, think about how when we leave the EU we will sign FTAs with many countries around the world from whom we will therefore buy at world prices with no tariffs imposed from our side. Apart from benefiting our consumers, this creates strong competition in our home market between all producers, whether domestic or foreign. EU producers are no exception; they will have to meet these prices to sell anything much here at all. So any tariffs we impose, they will have to absorb. As for our producers selling in the EU, they too will sell at world prices since their competitors here would quickly undercut them if they charged more. Therefore any EU tariffs on them will be paid by EU importers, who can easily do so as EU prices are higher because of their trade barriers on world producers.

What this all means is that if we leave the EU without a trade agreement, under WTO rules, and therefore with no transition (which is dependent on a trade deal), the EU carries the burden of paying about £13 billion a year tariff revenue to HM Treasury, it loses our £39 billion budget contribution for the transition period and the world competition from our FTAs kicks in two years early. The cost of all this when discounted to present value is around £500 billion. On the other hand, it gives us some useful extra gains, in the form of an earlier start to higher growth and higher Treasury revenues, amounting in present value to £650 billion.

Much nonsense has recently been talked about ‘no deal’ halting air traffic, upsetting pensions, derailing Northern Ireland’s electricity deal with Ireland and much else. However these matters have nothing at all with ‘no trade deal’ which is the issue here. They are the basic meat and drink of any competent government to resolve as they deal with the necessary separation from the EU under Article 50, which indeed was created for this very purpose. For these negotiations about practical matters to fail, one would need to assume that the EU and the UK were planning some sort of acrimonious divorce amounting to a level of implicit warfare. Since they are both allies in NATO, cooperating on security and supposedly maintaining friendly diplomatic relations into the future, this would be a serious failure indeed. It would imply that one would kiss goodbye to good cross-Channel relations indefinitely. It would not stop Brexit however; it would merely reinforce in the British mind the picture of basic EU hostility and strengthen the urge to leave at any cost. For this reason, it is reasonable to dismiss failure to agree these basic matters; indeed, it has been said repeatedly by both sides that 80% of them are already agreed.

A World Trade Deal is another matter and, as we have seen, it is an attractive option for the UK, even better than the Canada+ deal that we would naturally cooperate on with the EU in the interest of good neighbourliness. But so bad is the mess into which the poorly thought-out Chequers proposals have plunged the UK-EU negotiations that the default World Trade Deal looks ever more likely. As our new Guide shows, this will bring us the full gains from Brexit and by bringing them faster with no burdensome transition period and tariff revenues from the EU, provide an additional fillip on top.

Friday 7 September 2018


On non-EU immigration, the government is asleep at the controls

Article by Alp Mehmet - Vice Chairman of Migration Watch UK, former British diplomat.

The question is often asked as to why non-EU net migration has risen to 235,000 for the year to March 2018. That represents an increase of more than 50,000 on the previous year and is 36,000 higher than in the spring of 2010, when the Conservatives took office at the head of the coalition government.

All this despite a 2017 Conservative manifesto commitment to ‘bear down on immigration from outside the EU’ and repeated pledges to reduce overall net migration to the tens of thousands (from more than 270,000 currently).

A paper issued by Migration Watch UK, How to deliver a significant reduction in non-EU net migration, argues that the Government has failed to make serious efforts to reduce non-EU immigration despite having powers to do so.

A number of factors have been in play:

·         Despite strenuous efforts by Mrs May when Home Secretary, she faced firm opposition from the Treasury, which has long favoured continued immigration simply to boost the overall size of the economy regardless of the impact on wider society and despite the absence of evidence for the UK of any significant benefit to GDP per head.

·         Other government departments also opposed restrictions, often as a result of special interests. For example, where the NHS had shortages of staff even when, as the government’s own Migration Advisory Committee has pointed out, this was partly due to a failure to invest sufficiently in training.

·         During the coalition years the Liberal Democrats had no desire to restrict immigration control from anywhere in the world.

·         Meanwhile those who were benefiting financially, such as business and universities, pressed for continued high levels of immigration to their own sectors.

·         Since the election in 2017 Amber Rudd, as the Home Secretary, preferred to kick the can down the road, partly because she believed that immigration was good for the economy.

·         The present Home Secretary Sajid Javid has so far not demonstrated any willingness to tighten immigration policy; in fact his decisions since taking office have had the effect of loosening controls.

Some allege that recent polling points to a ‘softening’ of public attitudes on immigration. However, more positive attitudes since the Referendum are mainly the result of a feeling that Brexit has either already led, or will lead, to reductions, according to Ipsos Mori.

Nearly two-thirds of voters still consider the level of immigration to have been too high over the past decade. That YouGov poll also showed that more 18-to-24-year-olds say immigration levels have been too high than the combined share who say the level has been ‘about right’ or ‘too low’. Other research by the London School of Economics has shown that voters are particularly concerned about reducing the level of immigration from outside the EU.

The Migration Watch UK paper indicates steps that could and should be taken to reduce the level of non-EU net migration. They are summarised (by category) as follows:

·         Students – Interviews to obtain a student visa should be extended to all applicants and made more rigorous. Students who wish to transfer into work after their studies should be included in the Tier 2 quota (currently 20,700) and subjected to the Resident Labour Market Test.

·         Family – The English language requirement should be raised and the income threshold to sponsor a partner should be increased. It should also be easier for victims of forced marriage to report on their circumstances in order to block visas. Such straightforward measures would help integration and reduce the burden on the British taxpayer.

·         Work (general) – The English language requirement should be raised and applicants should be qualified in a relevant degree. The salary threshold should be increased and applied to students transferring into work from a student visa.

·         Work (intra-company transfers) – This route needs to be thoroughly reviewed to prevent exploitation. It should be subject to the Resident Labour Market Test. Salary thresholds should be increased to better reflect the going rate in the UK.

·         Illegal immigration – The government should devote a great deal more political will and energy towards toughening up border controls and ensuring the departure of those with no right to be here. Former senior officials in the Home Office have estimated that there may be more than a million illegal immigrants in the UK.

·         Resources – An increase in resources for border control will also be essential, particularly given the need to divert resources to register about three million EU citizens under the Withdrawal Agreement.

It is clear that the government has taken its eye off the ball, indeed it has been asleep at the controls, when it comes to non-EU immigration. Implementing the above measures would help the Home Secretary make progress in delivering on a major Conservative manifesto commitment.


 

Tuesday 21 August 2018

EU Corruption Widespread - See BBC Report

 

Danger! Danger! Medical Supply Chain will disintegrate because of BREXIT!

Danger! Danger! Medical Supply Chain will disintegrate because of BREXIT!

Project Fear is now saying that there will be a medicine shortage following a WTO agreement with the EU, when we leave on 29th March 2019.

So here is the scenario.

a) People are dying in our hospitals because there are insufficient medical supplies, when we leave the EU.
b) A lorry marked urgent medical supplies pulls off a ferry in dover.
c) A British government official stops the lorry and says: "sorry you will have to go back, computer says NO, Brexit I'm afraid"
Two questions:
1. Do you really believe that the medical supply chain will break down when we leave the EU? (scenario a)
2. Do you really think that c) will happen if a) is true?
This is bonkers. Who the hell is going to stop urgent medical supplies coming into our country? If you are that person, please let me know and we can have a quiet word ;-)

Brexit: The (animated) Movie

Remember this one - Worth another view as it as relevant now as it was when it was first published in April 2016..


Brexit the (Animated) Movie

 
 
 
Oh and also view this one published just before the last election (June 2017). Which foretold what Mrs May was going to do..  (6' 30'' into the video)
 
This is a must watch and share video...
 
 


Watch this official EU Video...


This official EU Video points out that the EU always makes an effort to encourage free trade around the world.

So we should be OK when we leave then.

Please view here:
http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I074002

Friday 17 August 2018


Nice to see the Leave Means Leave Campaign is gaining speed..

Here is a recent article:

You may have seen our comment piece in today’s Daily Telegraph. We have had a busy August so far, fundraising and recruiting more stuff, so as to relaunch our Brexit campaign. 
None of us imagined that, more than two years on from the referendum, we would have to refight the battle for Brexit. We never dreamt that we would have to attack some desperate “Chequers” proposal from the Prime Minister, which led to the resignation of two of the most influential Brexit-supporting Cabinet ministers.

Let’s not mince our words. The Chequers plan is a con, a sell-out, carefully planned and cleverly worded. Brexit supporters are under no illusions about what is going on. Brexiteers are looking for action before it is too late.  

This will be a nationwide effort, not an intellectual exercise from air-conditioned offices in London. We are taking our campaign to the people. 

The next six months will determine the future direction of our country. Do we want to remain handcuffed to an outdated, protectionist bullying bureaucracy as a vassal state? Or do we want to be a bold, ambitious trading nation, retaking our rightful place on the global stage as a strong independent country, enjoying the significant economic benefits that flow from a proper Brexit?

See more articles at https://www.leavemeansleave.eu/?post_type=media

Kind regards,

Richard Tice & John Longworth
Co-Chairmen

Leave Means Leave.

Wednesday 15 August 2018

UKIP Watford Street Stall

Saturday, 18th August 2018 - 10am - 1pm

Watford High Street, Near "The Moon Under Water Pub"
 
 
 
We are leaving the EU at 11pm on 29th March 2018 but...
 
We believe we should leave the EU under WTO rules and without paying the EU a penny.
 
We truly believe that LEAVE means LEAVE
 
Please come along and say hello and join the debate

Mike Hookem MEP - We Must Save Our Greenbelt


                      
Last week, I was asked to examine a planning issue in my constituency where Grade II agricultural land had been earmarked for the development of 3000 new homes, despite already being zoned as greenbelt; being of archaeological interest and have no services or infrastructure to support such a development.

However, despite already yielding a crop of rapeseed this year, the local council (Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council - RMBC) have repeatedly ignored the protests of residents and marked the land as 'scrub,' when it quite evidently is not.
The residents have even gone as far as to suggest alternative 'brownfield' sites in the area that could not only be developed for housing, but also improve the appearance and attraction of the Dinnington area.

While I understand the need for extra housing in the UK, this development will not consist of social housing - but 3, 4, or 5 bedroom homes aimed at the private market.
This type of project which ignores local concerns and erodes our countryside is not the social housing revolution the UK needs.

The country is crying out for social housing, yet, councils and officials in Westminster continue to be obsessed with building homes that many people - especially first-time buyers - could not afford.
This is yet another case of the wrong housing in the wrong place, and the Government must get a grip, as this is an issue that is going on up and down the country

That is why I support UKIP's policy of prioritising 'brownfield' sites where ever possible, halting the erosion of the British countryside.

Please watch and share my video.

Friday 10 August 2018

Forwarding an e-mail from the Leave means Leave team

 
This week Boris Johnson has held the headlines. Most of the news coverage has been over his article in Monday’s Telegraph about burkas. This has led to attempts by the Remainer controlled government to discredit Johnson as a potential leadership challenger by tarring him with calls to apologise and a kangaroo court set up to establish guilt. Again, the Government have completely misjudged the mood of the people.

There has been extremely positive economic news for Britain with rocketing European investment into the UK as well as continued financial growth for the City of London. This is an abject humiliation for Sadiq Khan and his continual negative talk over London’s prospects in the post-Brexit future that we will enjoy.

Meanwhile, the silly season of Project Fear 2.0 is continuing at full speed. This has led to Sir Bernard Jenkin accurately calling repeated doom-laden remain propaganda the 'new Millennium bug', which of course turned out to be a farcical non-issue.

Finally, Priti Patel has exposed what Theresa May thinks of the average UK citizen and Leave voter. Priti said that this Remainer government thinks it can corral the population, like sheep, into accepting their fake Brexit plan, otherwise known as the Chequers plan. Of course, this is totally unacceptable and we will continue to fight for the Brexit that we voted for. We will take back control!

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to keep updated with all the latest Brexit news during the week.

Have a good weekend!

Kind regards,

Richard Tice & John Longworth
Co-Chairmen
      

   
Will the Government deliver Brexit?

This week, Jacob Rees-Mogg said that Britain is perfectly capable of leaving on WTO terms and that it will bring significant economic benefits. He also said that the UK should learn from how other successful independent nations compete for world trade. He concluded by saying that “the EU has held us back.”

Iain Duncan Smith spoke to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme. He talked about how there needs to be a better system of migration control post-Brexit and how it could be achieved through an improved work permit system. You can listen to his interview here.

John Longworth wrote about the Remainers in government trying to stitch-up Boris Johnson before a possible leadership challenge comes in the Autumn. He explains that this is another example of the party leadership being out of touch with its grassroots support.

Lawyers for Britain have published a paper by Professor David Collins which says Theresa May’s Chequers Plan could be illegal under WTO rules. He explained that the facilitated customs plan could violate WTO treaty import obligations and WTO rules on export subsidies.  
 
 
Top Brexit stories of the week
This distrust of innovation does the EU no favours (The Times)

Brexit boost: Number of European buyers investing in UK business ROCKETS dwarfing Germany (The Express)

Brexit 'gloom' similar to Millennium bug panic, says leading Brexiteer (The Telegraph)

No-deal Brexit will break the EU's own laws, ministers warn Brussels (The Telegraph)

Theresa May is backing herself into a disastrous blind alley (The Times)