(Barndoor Strategy CEO Havard Hughes with Boris Johnson) The polls have now closed in the Conservative leadership contest and it is all but inevitable that next Tuesday, Boris Johnson will be named as the new party leader and therefore the new Prime Minister. There has been much mainstream media criticism of the fact that […]
If Brexit is frustrating the British public at the moment, just imagine how it feels if you work in and around Westminster. Everything has ground to a juddering halt as MPs and Peers wrestle with trying to find a solution to Brexit that they can agree on. As we have seen in recent weeks they […]
No matter where you sit on the Brexit spectrum, the chances are you don’t think the process of Brexit is going well. One of the few things that the most ardent ‘Brexiteers’ and the staunchest ‘Remainiacs’ can agree on is that we have made a gargantuan hash of Brexit from the moment the referendum result […]
Barndoor Strategy, the public affairs and strategy consultancy fronted by former MRM Director and Financial Conduct Authority Senior Associate Havard Hughes and ex-Deputy Mayor of London Roger Evans have announced that David Spencer, a former aide to David Davis and experienced public affairs consultant, is joining the business as their new Managing Director. Spencer, who […]
The devil in the detail of the Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement is undoubtedly the backstop. The EU’s unpopular insurance policy could have the UK over a barrel. It has also driven a wedge through the confidence and support agreement with the DUP. Much has been written and said about what this means and what might […]
The real power behind the throne at this year’s Conservative Conference, was the presence of the DUP. If Boris Johnson thought that the Birmingham conference would be the beginning of his leadership campaign then his team must be sorely disappointed. Not only was the conference show stolen by Geoffrey Cox the Attorney General, but Theresa […]
The controversial Chequers Agreement put forward by the British Government has its detractors. That, perhaps, is putting it mildly given the number of resignations it triggered, But if Eurosceptics hate it that much, why is the EU talking about rejecting Mrs May’s big compromise? Afterall, much to the chagrin of Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Government has […]
Barnier’s eleventh hour pronouncement that the Chequers deal is unacceptable to the EU should come as no surprise to anyone. Life is a series of lessons. We learn from our own lived experiences and by observing the varied fortunes of those around us. Unfortunately, when it comes to contemporary British politics, people have […]
Barndoor Director Chris Alley sets out how free ports could revolutionise trade and manufacturing in the UK For thirty years Britain staggered on after the war. The “sick man of Europe” weighed down by militant unions, rampant inflation and obsolete business practices, Britain was locked into a spiral of decline. At its zenith the dead […]
With EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier reportedly driving a hard bargain, Brexit will likely consume Westminster’s attention for some time, leave hard feelings on both sides of the Channel and trigger Britain’s geopolitical drift away from the Continent with no clear political and geographic aim in sight to date. That aim should be Asia with its steep […]