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Sir David Davis writes on the Northern Ireland Protocol
As published in The Daily Telegraph: In the early days of December 2017, Theresa May agreed, against my strong advice, to concede what she termed “full alignment” between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. That concession gave the EU continuing power over a part of the United Kingdom, destabilised the fine balance in Ulster […]
Sir David Davis writes on the direction of Government economic policy
As published in The Daily Telegraph: The French politician Jean-Baptiste Colbert described the tax riddle best: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.” Well, there has been a lot of hissing on the Tory benches of […]
Sir David Davis writes on withdrawal of US and UK troops from Afghanistan
As published by Conservative Home: Like many others, I have watched with horror and shame as Taliban forces have seized Afghan regional capital after capital. Horror, because although I have spent the last few months pressing the British government to help those Afghans who had worked as translators for our Armed Forces, I am only […]
Sir David Davis and Robert Halfon MP write in The Times on AI teaching and social mobility
As published in The Times: The prime minister has rightly put levelling up at the heart of his government’s agenda. Yet if this is to succeed, then we must also focus on restoring social mobility. We have one of the poorest rates of social mobility in the developed world, ranking 21st on the Global Social […]
Sir David Davis writes on extradition to the United States
As published by the Mail on Sunday: Most distressingly, any Briton can be seized from their home and taken to a prison in a foreign country purely on the say-so of that nation’s lawyers if they claim the person is guilty of some – as yet unproved – crime. For the UK is one of […]