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    Why Britain, like Iceland, will thrive outside the EU

    Our remarkable transformation would not have been possible had we joined the EU and adopted the euro and become bound by EU regulations. Had we done so, our fate would very likely instead have resembled that of Greece... Why Britain, like Iceland, will thrive outside the EU Temporary EEA...
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    EU looks set to cave in to Britain's Irish backstop demands

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested an alternative to the Irish border backstop - a key Brexit sticking point - could be found within 30 days. Speaking at a news conference alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Berlin, she stressed it would be up to the UK to offer a workable...
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    Johnson's opponents are playing into his hands

    Tory Remainers have their work cut out to defeat the former Leave leader... Boris Johnson’s Brexit opponents are playing into his hands Robert Peston 21 August 2019 The Spectator There is arguably the most important conflict raging in the Tory Party since Churchill replaced Chamberlain as...
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    The Americans want to buy Greenland. Why don't they buy Britain instead?

    With the pound plummeting towards parity with the dollar, Britain has never been better value. RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Forget Greenland. Why doesn't Donald Trump buy Great Britain...
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    Brexit is not a threat to British science

    The importance of the EU to science is overstated... Brexit is not a threat to British science...
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    Earliest tapeworms found at "Britain's Pompeii"

    The earliest evidence of fish tapeworm in Britain has been discovered preserved in human faeces, according to experts at Cambridge University...
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    Johnson to repeal EU law in days

    BORIS Johnson is set to sign an act to repeal EU law in days and FINALLY free us from Brussels control. Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has been ordered by the PM to sign a...
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    Opportunistic MPs are wrong to think they’ll become PM by thwarting Brexit

    ALL MPs have one thing in common. They all think that one day the nation will call and, by some freakish chain of events, they might end up living in No10...
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    Posturing revolutionary Corbyn is unfit to lead

    EVEN by Jeremy Corbyn’s standards, yesterday’s letter to other party leaders must rank as one of his most transparently cynical ploys yet... STEPHEN POLLARD Posturing revolutionary Jeremy Corbyn is unfit to lead Britain after his plan to rule unravels...
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    Romano-Celtic temple to be rebuilt in Kent

    Historians in Kent have vowed to painstakingly rebuild a 2,000-year-old temple in a bid to save it from destruction by developers...
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    Cow and bull having sex block road

    This is the hilarious moment a woman was forced to wait behind a bull and cow as they caused a raunchy roadblock. The picture, taken in Harris in the Western Isles, was posted by...
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    Peterloo Massacre: Tracing the relatives

    Descendants of Peterloo survivors have spoken of their pride after research by an academic revealed their ancestors took part in the protest...
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    From Peterloo to Brexit

    Saturday is the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, when working people in Manchester were attacked and murdered by cavalry forces for daring to demand the right to vote. And what is our political class doing on this anniversary of such an important event in British political history...
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    Boris Johnson is the EU’s nemesis. But could he be Europe’s saviour?

    Boris’s populism (for that is how it is going to be spun by some) has taken on two arguments, on which he may very well be proved right... Boris Johnson is the EU’s nemesis. But could he be Europe’s saviour? Matthew Leeming 16 August 2019 The Spectator It is a curious and rather moving...
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    Britain's "First Lady" makes her first speech

    Carrie Symonds, 31, was in England's smallest county Rutland today to make her first speech as Britain's "First Lady"... PM's partner Carrie Symonds makes first speech since No 10 move...
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    Remainers got it wrong about the employment rates

    33 million Britons are in employment, the second-highest number of any EU member state after Germany (in contrast, France, with a similar population to Britain, has just 25 million people in employment). One million more Britons are in work since the EU referendum, despite the warnings from...
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    The Green Party's coup against Brexit is sexist

    Three years into Britain's political civil war over Brexit and the losing Remainers are coming up with all sorts of devious and weird and undemocratic tricks to win. The latest idea, from the Green Party, is...
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    5 British castles with romantic histories

    Five British castles with thoroughly romantic histories... 5 British castles with romantic histories...
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    National disunity is Jeremy Corbyn’s only future — he can’t thwart Brexit

    There are two huge flaws in the Remainers' latest plan to thwart Brexit... JAMES FORSYTH National disunity is Jeremy Corbyn’s only future — he can’t thwart Boris Johnson’s Brexit COMMENT James Forsyth The Sun 10 Aug 2019 THE latest plan to thwart Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy is...
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    Richard Braine is elected Ukip leader with landslide victory

    Richard Braine has been elected the new leader of Ukip, replacing Gerard Batten after taking more than half the vote in a leadership contest. The chairman of the party's West London...