The Bruges Group spearheaded the intellectual battle to win a vote to leave the European Union and, above all, against the emergence of a centralised EU state.
By David Campbell Bannerman with contribution by Derek Bennett Simon Richards was a person you'd welcome seeing at events and make a beeline over to talk to. Always cheery, polite, humorous, principled, freedom loving, gregarious and well-informed, his untimely loss is a great one for us all to bear. Simon was a determined but gentlemanly Brexiteer...
To summarise the whole Raab "bullying" scandal is best described from Conservative MP for Peterborough, Paul Bristow, deploring the saga as cynically making the UK as "not a serious country". Certainly Mr Bristow is pristine clear about this, the mockery that the accusation of "bullying" affecting the civil service makes our nation a joke.From...