The new layer of bureaucracy wastes time and money, and risks lives as negotiations drag on. As Katz states, England is one of the most centralised nations in the OECD, but rather than devolving power ...

In his article highlighting the threadbare state of Britain’s defences (“Britain’s national security demands more than a defence review”, Opinion, November 23) Philip Stephens concludes that for Sir ...

Companies then moved from holding equities to bonds in their defined benefit pension schemes not because of any “bleats”, but to match their liabilities to pay pensions. Reducing risk in their pension ...

At the same time, it is obvious Britain could not “shuffle closer” to the EU at that point because the British people were opposed to any such move, as shown by the 2016 Brexit referendum result.