Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
Barry Legg, Chairman of the Bruges Group, describes the changes needed to steer Britain through its biggest crisis of the twenty-first century.
This week has been another shocking reminder how far adrift today’s Conservative Party are from the principles enunciated and implemented by its greatest peacetime leader Margaret Thatcher. The political and economic storm clouds are darkening not lightening and we will see whether he has the capacity to make the necessary changes in terms of personnel and policies to bring Britain through its biggest crisis of the twenty-first century. The Northern Ireland Protocol is not just undermining the economic integrity of the United Kingdom but signposting that Northern Ireland’s political future lies with the Republic. Boris must now lance this boil without further delay.
Barry Legg, Chairman of the Bruges Group, describes the changes needed to steer Britain through its biggest crisis of the twenty-first century.
This week has been another shocking reminder how far adrift today’s Conservative Party are from the principles enunciated and implemented by its greatest peacetime leader Margaret Thatcher. The political and economic storm clouds are darkening not lightening and we will see whether he has the capacity to make the necessary changes in terms of personnel and policies to bring Britain through its biggest crisis of the twenty-first century. The Northern Ireland Protocol is not just undermining the economic integrity of the United Kingdom but signposting that Northern Ireland’s political future lies with the Republic. Boris must now lance this boil without further delay.
