UK shipyards, steelyards and specialist defence industry would be better off if the Government were to leave an EU directive which effectively sends UK defence work to the cheapest bidder abroad. Major-General Tim Cross says the Government must therefore scrap its current proposal to […]
A new briefing paper by Veterans for Britain has exposed the extent to which the government’s Chequers plan will sacrifice British control over our own armed forces. The paper, authored by Professor Gwythian Prins, Lt-Gen Jonathon Riley CB DSO and […]
Brexit must mean military independence, or it will be no real Brexit at all. But with the focus on trade issues, the public and even MPs have been blindsided by UK officials’ attempts to shackle us to the EU’s military […]
Shock horror! Can a Brexit supporter honestly utter such a phrase as the above? Sadly, yes, especially when the subjects include cooperation in security and criminal justice matters. These two issues powerfully illustrate the illusory nature of our government’s approach […]
This is a comment from Lt-General Jonathon Riley (ex-ISAF deputy commander) and ex-military colleagues expressing deep concerns over the defence component of the Draft Exit Agreement: “The exit agreement shows that the Cabinet Office does not intend to regain the […]
Before readers start getting too angry about the agreement between David Davis and Michel Barnier over the terms for an interim relationship with the EU, it must be pointed out that the handshake between the two men does not mean […]
