by Matt Cooke | Jan 3, 2021 | Media, Opinion
Following our nation’s decision to leave the European Union, I published with Leave Means Leave my proposal for a new direction on immigration after Brexit. It was entitled “A Fair, Flexible and Forward-Thinking Immigration System Post Brexit.” Brexit gives the UK a...
by Matt Cooke | Dec 31, 2020 | Opinion
On Friday the BBC and Sky announced that Jaguar Land Rover is set to cut 5,000 jobs from its 40,000-strong workforce in the UK. There was no doubt in the minds of the presenters (and no doubt the editors that feed the lines) about what was the apparent root cause of...
by Matt Cooke | Aug 3, 2020 | Opinion
‘Never attempt to win by force that which can be won by deception,’ the great political deceiver Niccolo Machiavelli once advised. So having killed off any Conservative Party leaver coup and denied a divisive, bitter nation-splitting third referendum, the only...
by Matt Cooke | Aug 3, 2020 | Opinion
Those of us who have made our lives in Brussels have always known it: EU referendums are a trick for idiots. The people can vote, but their vote will have no effect, not unless the vote is what the EU wants. Of course, I thought that would not apply to the UK; we are...
by Matt Cooke | Aug 3, 2020 | Opinion
The No10 team needs to quit trying to present prime minister Theresa May as ‘resolute’ or ‘determined’ to get a ‘good deal for Britain’ in the Brexit negotiations. What they appear to be doing is trying to present an image of May as a modern Thatcher. She is not. The...
