https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Suella-Braverman-MP-Brexit-ERG-Star-Chamber-Final.mp3 So what kind of compromise will she be looking for? In this exclusive B4B podcast Braverman spells out her key tests for what has been termed the “Cox’s codpiece”. She believes Cox still has a chance of securing an amendment of some kind possibly a treaty level clause that overrides the backstop, and which provides a clear route out of the backstop. “We have set out three tests. We want a clearly worded legally binding mechanism. We want language which doesn’t simply re-emphas ..read more

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Dr-Stephen-Davies-B4B-The-Brexit-realignment-Final.mp3 British politics, he explains,  is going through a  transformation and the cross party Brexit groupings in Parliament will eventually lead to a more fundamental realignment of the UK’s party system. Davies says you can already see this happening in the country too where the People’s Vote campaign and Leave Means Leave are organising and bringing people together at a grass roots level. The party leaders both Theresa May and Jeremey Corbyn  are aware of how dange ..read more

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lord-Glasman-Labours-Brexit-position-Final.mp3 As the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell finally reveal their pro-Brexit hand, Lord Maurice Glasman tells BfB why he believes the Labour party has the right leaders at the right time and how history will judge them well. Glasman says Corbyn is a Bennite, a left-wing leader in a pro-EU party, and that he and McDonnell have had “a very, very, difficult balancing act to pull off”. He welcomed the Labour leader’s publication of his five tests, which now ..read more

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Ashoka-Mody-B4B-Final-Final-February-2019.mp3 Ashoka Mody, is Visiting Professor of International Economic Policy, Princeton University and author of Euro Tragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts (Oxford University Press). His book has just been judged the best economics book of the year by the American Association of Book publishers. In this exclusive BfB podcast Mody tells us why he believes the EU has failed to keep up with growth in other parts of the developed and developing world, and why this has led to protest and anti-establis ..read more

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lord-Lilley-Leaving-on-WTO-Terms-Final.mp3   Listen to Labour MP for Vauxhall Kate Hoey discuss the same topic here. BfB speaks to two leading Brexiteers, the Conservative peer the Rt Hon Lord Peter Lilley and the Labour MP for Vauxhall Kate Hoey, soon after Theresa May made her statement to the House on what her plan B for Brexit now is. Hoey is Vice-Chair of Labour Leave and Lilley has recently published a paper called “30 Truths about leaving on WTO terms”. While May’s plan B looks much like her plan A and sees her going ..read more

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Kate-Hoey-MP-B4B-Mays-Plan-B.mp3   Listen to Lord Peter Lilley discuss the same topic here. BfB speaks to two leading Brexiteers, the Conservative peer the Rt Hon Lord Peter Lilley and the Labour MP for Vauxhall Kate Hoey, soon after Theresa May made her statement to the House on what her plan B for Brexit now is. Hoey is Vice-Chair of Labour Leave and Lilley has recently published a paper called “30 Truths about leaving on WTO terms”. While May’s plan B looks much like her plan A and sees her going back to Europe again to l ..read more

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ten-B4B-guests-@StandUp4Brexit.mp3 January 15th 2019 will go down in British politics as one of the most significant dates in Parliament’s history as MPs vote on the Prime Minister, Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement. All bets are on the 585 page Agreement being defeated but no-body knows for sure by how much or even if her premiership or her government will survive it.  It might even be the Labour opposition that splits. Who knows? In this B4B #StandUp4Brexit documentary podcast you will hear from economist Larry Elliott; B ..read more

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Richard-Johnson-B4B-Final.mp3 Richard Johnson, a lecturer in Politics, at Lancaster University tells B4B listeners how he believes Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership are positioning the party to win more Leave voting constituencies in the next General Election to defeat the Tories. While some outspoken Remain critics, including those in his own party, have accused Corbyn of deserting Labour remain voters, Johnson says Corbyn has been “consistent” throughout and that it is more Leave seats that Labour needs to capture, just a ..read more

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Baroness-Ruth-Deech-B4B-Final.mp3 In this special end of term B4B podcast we caught up with Baroness Ruth Deech, a lawyer, who has over the past 25 years often voiced her concerns about the UK’s membership of the European Union. We discuss a speech Baroness Deech made in the House of Lords this month. You can read it here on our website: https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/up-with-this-we-will-not-put/ Deech spells out why like others she objects to the Prime Minister Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement, pointing out the Norther ..read more

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/David-Jones-MP-Final-.mp3 David Jones the Conservative MP for Clwyd West Jones was one of 48 Conservative MPs who wrote to the 1922 backbench Committee, representing 15 per cent of the Party, asking for a vote of no-confidence in Theresa May’s leadership which took place on Wednesday this week and reaffirmed Theresa May as leader. She won that vote by 200 for and 117 against, which has subsequently been interpreted as a narrow win for May, but which has won Brexiteers and others the concession that she repeated again today that s ..read more