Author - Briefings For Britain

This week people across the country will be reunited with friends and family for the first time...

The last few months have been so full of unexpected turns that we have almost grown used to them...

Our (very slightly loosened) lockdown continues and Covid-19 is still the biggest story in town...

It’s not the VE Day we would have wanted, but it will have to do. Bunting still abounded, Vera Lynn...

We continue to live life governed by the pause button. The government is due to announce the next...

This week Britain was treated to all its favourite comedians reprising their greatest hits –...

We’re all going to be locked down for another three weeks, but the good news is that the government...

A dark week for Britain. The coronavirus death toll reached over 900 a day and the Prime Minister...

It’s sunny outside, but Britain watches from its windows as the boredom of the lockdown starts to...

The last few days have seen the biggest changes to everyday British life ever seen in peacetime. It...

For most people Brexit is the least of their worries this week. As the death toll associated with...

Brexit dominated the news cycles for so long, it became hard to imagine anything else causing the...

The stark differences between British and European negotiating aims grow ever clearer. This week on...

This was the week that both sides locked horns. Negotiating mandates were published by both the UK...

This week Britain’s chief negotiator David Frost gave an admirably clear – and personal – account...

It was (ex)cheque-mate for Sajid Javid this week, in the first major shake-up of Boris Johnson’s...

Boris Johnson spent this week channelling Churchill. But not that one. No, this week it was John...

Dear Subscribers, It took three and a half years of Parliamentary infighting, two general...

The Withdrawal Declaration has been signed by both sides, and people across Britain are preparing...

This was a week we were treated to more mentions of the word bong than at any time in British...

The Pope remains Catholic, bears continue to do their business in the woods, and the EU is making...

And we’re back! The champagne corks have popped, it’s 2020, and – as if everyone’s livers have not...

Less than a week to go until the election. And good job too, given the increasingly lacklustre...

Dear Subscribers, The election has been overshadowed this weekend by the tragic events at London...

The election campaign trundles along, with no major excitement during this week’s debates.

Dear Subscribers, Nominations have been finalised and the election is a mere 25 days away. Although...

Dear Subscribers, This week we celebrated Parliament not being blown up in 1605. Though perhaps...

Dear Subscribers, This year’s Christmas TV schedules will be even more dominated by repeats than...

Dear Subscribers, Finally, a majority for some form of Brexit in the House of Commons. This should...

Dear Subscribers, A more Stodgy than Super Saturday, as MPs passed Oliver Letwin’s amendment...

Dear Subscribers, Hey Presto. Three years ago, just after the referendum, the former Australian...

Dear Subscribers, The big news this week is British government’s new proposal for a deal. The plan...

Dear Subscribers, The courtroom drama section of the Brexit saga is over, with Boris Johnson judged...

Dear Subscribers, Conference season kicked off with an unsurprisingly pro-Remain offering from the...

Dear Subscribers, The news this week was dominated by the on-going Court battle over the...