Posts Tagged “eu referendum”
Why I think Theresa May is pretty much the ideal prime minister for our times
by Stephen Tall on September 6, 2016
Embed from Getty Images Theresa May is pretty much the ideal prime minister for the times we live in. Not because she gives every appearance of being reassuringly tough, shrewd, hard-working and very clearly competent but because she’s no ideologue. (…)
The Brexit rupture: sorry if I take it personally. But it is.
by Stephen Tall on July 8, 2016
Honestly, I’ve not known what to write this past fortnight: so much things to say. But, then, so’s everyone else. I was at a big dinner last night in the Remain stronghold of Oxford (numerous ‘in’ posters, and even a (…)
My Brexit take in 7 tweets
by Stephen Tall on June 10, 2016
[View the story “Views of a Lib Dem Eurosceptic on Leave / Remain” on Storify]
Who will speak for England? Turns out, it’s David Cameron
by Stephen Tall on February 4, 2016
Much deserved mockery greeted the Daily Mail’s portentous front page plea for a plucky patriot to take up cudgels on behalf of Brexit: Today the Mail asks a question of profound significance to our destiny as a sovereign nation and (…)
Europe and the Election (2): In defence of Nicola Sturgeon
by Stephen Tall on April 8, 2015
(You can read Europe and the Election (1): Blair’s back, but wrong here.) Nicola Sturgeon has taken some stick today for hinting the SNP might call for another independence referendum in their 2016 Scottish parliament manifesto, despite Alex Salmond having previously said (…)
Principle and Realpolitik: why the Lib Dems should back an EU in/out referendum
by Stephen Tall on June 18, 2014
My co-editor Caron Lindsay has asked the following question, amid reports senior Lib Dems want the party to commit to an in/out EU referendum in the next parliament: “What do you think? Stay as we are or shift our position?” My own view is the party has nothing to lose by offering a referendum in the 2015 […]
“The EU has provided us with the best Europe we’ve ever had”
by Stephen Tall on January 18, 2014
That was the claim in this very interesting essay by Robert Cooper – a visiting professor at the London School of Economic and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations – in last week’s New Statesman. In it, he mounts a staunch defence of parliamentary democracy as the best way of deciding such […]
“The EU has provided us with the best Europe we’ve ever had”
by Stephen Tall on January 18, 2014
That was the claim in this very interesting essay by Robert Cooper – a visiting professor at the London School of Economic and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations – in last week’s New Statesman. In it, he mounts a staunch defence of parliamentary democracy as the best way of deciding such […]
An in/out EU referendum? Lib Dem members say no, by 55% to 36%
by Stephen Tall on August 13, 2013
Lib Dem Voice has polled our members-only forum to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. More than 600 party members have responded, and we’re publishing the full results. 55% of Lib Dems oppose in/out EU referendum The next Conservative election manifesto will […]
An in/out EU referendum? Lib Dem members say no, by 55% to 36%
by Stephen Tall on August 13, 2013
Lib Dem Voice has polled our members-only forum to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. More than 600 party members have responded, and we’re publishing the full results. 55% of Lib Dems oppose in/out EU referendum The next Conservative election manifesto will […]
