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LABOUR shadow chancellor Ed Balls tied his colours to the EU’s wobbling mast yesterday, branding those arguing for a British exit “Luddites.”
In a speech to the British Chamber of Commerce conference the frontbencher faced down Tory-led attacks branding the party “anti-business.”
He declared his support for Britain’s unprecedented corporation tax cuts on bigger firms.
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
ANDY CROFT rallies poets to the impossible task of speaking truth to a tin-eared politician