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Sir David Davis writes for The Telegraph on the need for no deal preparations
As published in The Telegraph: By preparing for no deal properly, we will get the good Brexit democracy demands of us We are told that another decisive moment looms, in the form of the forthcoming Commons vote on the proposed Withdrawal Agreement. Of course, we have been here before. We have seen many supposedly decisive […]
Sir David Davis writes in The Telegraph on the need to reform the broken student loans system
Britain’s university system is broken and in need of radical reform The Office for National Statistics has put the Treasury in a difficult position. Earlier this week, it recommended that a large portion of unpaid student debt should be recorded on the Government’s books as current spending. Over the past couple of decades, we have persuaded whole […]
Sir David Davis writes in The Telegraph on how we can reset Brexit
As published in The Daily Telegraph. The Prime Minister’s latest ploy of looking for more fudge with which to buy off the House of Commons will not work. Believe me, the standard Brussels playbook means that they will now play tough for at least the next month. So, this plan is ill-conceived and doomed to […]
Sir David Davis is interviewed by The House Magazine
As published in The House Magazine: David Davis is smarting about missing his 6.30am “row”. Problems with the underground forced him to walk the three-mile journey to his home after the Spectator’s parliamentarian of the year awards. He arrived at gone two in the morning. His daily workout routine paid the price. The former Brexit […]
Sir David Davis urges Cabinet to think carefully before deciding whether to support the proposed Brexit deal
As published on The Spectator: Let’s be clear. If the Cabinet supports the Prime Minister’s proposed deal today, and they somehow manage to whip Parliament into allowing it to proceed, then a whole raft of irreversible consequences will flow from it. This will begin the breakup of the United Kingdom, not just isolating Northern Ireland, […]