MP says City will go from strength to strength The former Chief Executive of HSBC Holdings, Michael Geoghegan, has argued that leaving the EU would ‘deliver benefits to the City, the rest of the country – and our partners abroad’. The EU will continue to need access to the world’s largest financial centre, and...
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MP says only leaving EU will free SMEs from red tape Recently released Treasury research shows that EU regulations cost the economy £125.2 billion each year. This is the equivalent of £4,600 per household, or £23,236 per company. The cost of business regulation, especially to SMEs, has long been a concern, but even pro-EU...
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MP says British economy would thrive post-Brexit Earlier this week, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, suggested households could be worse off in the event of Brexit. However, this is based upon very long-term forecasts of the size of the economy in 2030, and upon the difference between 29% and...
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MP says UK law should be set by MPs at Westminster As required by the EU Referendum Act 2015, yesterday the Government quietly published a report on the ‘Rights and Obligations of European Union membership’. The report states that Britain has ‘an obligation to comply with EU law’, and that ‘EU fundamental rights are...
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MP says Government must conduct a fair referendum During Foreign and Commonwealth Office questions in the Commons this afternoon, John Baron MP responded to the Minister for Europe, Rt Hon David Lidington MP, when he stated that those advocating ‘Brexit’ could not come up with an idea of how it would affect our trading...
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MP says ‘unfair’ referendum may not settle the issue The Government is spending £9.3 million on a leaflet advocating a ‘remain’ vote in the forthcoming referendum, which will be sent to 27 million households across the United Kingdom. Though outside the formal ‘purdah’ period ahead of the referendum, many feel this nevertheless breaks the...
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MP says public deserve explanation before the EU Referendum The UK Statistics Authority has written to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), stating the public must be informed if published migration data ‘falls short of providing a full picture’. The letter was sparked by the revelation that the DWP issues 1.3 million more national...
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MP says EU rules hinder support for strategic steel industry As a member of the EU, control of our trade policy is vested in the European Commission. This means that the British Government is unable to apply measures to prevent other countries, such as China, from ‘dumping’ cheap steel imports. This dumping has badly...
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MP highlights EU taxes on tampons and energy-saving measures Thanks to the EU, the Government must, against its will, maintain VAT on tampons and raise VAT on energy-saving products such as insulation. This is because the EU judges tampons and other sanitary products to be ‘luxury items’, and because the European Court ruled last...
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MP says leaving EU would make Britain better off Our Brussels bill continues to increase – over the next five years Britain is set to pay another £96.5 billion, or £371 million each week. Despite cuts in the overall EU Budget – in the sense that increases are smaller than they otherwise would have...
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