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Sir David Davis writes in The Express on why the Conservatives must unite on Brexit to oppose the threat from Labour
As published on Express.co.uk: LABOUR’S conference this week has brought home the stark reality. Under Jeremy Corbyn, we see the advent of the most extreme Labour policy platform and leader in history and the real threat of a Marxist government which would wreck our country – nationalising water, energy and the railways, raising taxes, undermining […]
Sir David Davis writes to The Times on the alternatives to Chequers
As published in The Times: Sir, There has been a constant drum beat from this government that there is no alternative to Chequers. This is flatly untrue. You rightly publicised the Institute for Economic Affair’s excellent proposals earlier this week. In addition, my erstwhile department had been working on a 180-page white paper based on […]
Sir David Davis interviewed by The Huffington Post
For David Davis, life is no longer as sweet as it once was. The former Brexit Secretary, an erstwhile Tate & Lyle executive who famously took four sugars in his tea, now taps artificial sweetener into his daily mug of ‘builders’. But while Davis may have cut back on sugar and alcohol (“I haven’t had […]
Sir David Davis writes in The Sun about the Treasury’s Brexit Forecasts
As published in The Sun: WHEN the world suffered enormous financial crisis in 2008, the Queen asked simply: “Why did no one see it coming?” Of course, she was right to ask. Not a single public authority predicted the biggest crash in modern history — not the Bank of England, not the Treasury, and certainly […]
David Davis writes for the Financial Times about the importance of being able to diverge from the EU’s rules after Brexit
As published in the Financial Times: Britain must be able to control all regulations after Brexit Last week, the government’s Brexit white paper told the country it could look forward to a “common rule book” with the EU. We now face continued harmonisation with the bloc’s rules on goods. Unfortunately, this jeopardises the opportunities offered […]