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Beyond Brexit
his week Brexit reached its Somme.
The government has been bogged
down in votes on amendments insert-
ed into its Brexit bill by the House of Lords.
Theresa May saw off the threat of cabinet
resignations only to have a more junior
minister resign, as he put it, in order to voice
the concerns of his constituents (although,
as has been pointed out, a majority of them
actually voted to leave the EU).
It all looks a mess. The Brexit process
would have been unpleasant enough with
the small majority which the Prime Minister
inherited from David Cameron. After losing
even that, it has become a game of internal
pork-barrel politics — Downing Street has
had to offer potential rebels just enough to
satisfy their eager snouts without undermin-
ing the whole purpose: to leave the EU, the
single market and the customs union.
Conservative rebels like to point out that
only the first of those things was included on
the referendum paper faced by voters two
years ago, and that there is room for interpre-
tation on the latter two. But they overlook
the Conservative manifesto on which they
were (just) elected in 2017, which promised
all three.
The government could not, in any case,
possibly agree to an outcome in which Brit-
ain left the EU but remained in the single
market and customs union. Far from a com-
promise, it would be a worst of all worlds in
which Britain found itself having to obey
regulations and apply tariffs imposed by
Brussels but without any say in what those
regulations or tariffs were. The freedoms
promised by Brexit (foremost among them
the ability to follow our own trade policy)
would be lost.
Thanks to last year’s manifesto promise,
Theresa May was always likely to see off her
rebels and somehow drag herself through
this week’s quagmire. Now that she is on
slightly firmer ground, she should be seeking
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unity by formulating post-Brexit policies
which almost all Conservatives can support.
So much has been said of the negative
aspects of Brexit — the undoubted disrup-
tion and uncertainty it is bringing — that it is
easy to lose sight of the new freedoms which
come with it. The Prime Minister should seize
the initiative by first addressing the issue of
immigration policy — one of the concerns,
though far from the only one, that motivat-
ed Leave voters two years ago. She should
emphasise, as the official Leave campaign
did, that quitting the EU does not mean clos-
ing the door on migrants. Rather it means
the ability to devise our own migration pol-
It is easy to lose sight of the
new freedoms which come with
leaving the European Union
icy to favour skilled workers and disfavour
those without skills or earning potential.
It is absurd, as was revealed this week,
that overly restrictive rules on allowing in
skilled workers from outside the EU meant
that 2,300 doctors were prevented from tak-
ing up positions in the NHS between Novem-
ber and April. Sajid Javid says he is looking
into the cap on Tier-2 visas, which has been
blamed for turning away skilled staff, but this
on its own will not go far enough. The gov-
ernment needs to ditch its unrealistic target
of limiting net migration to no more than
100,000 a year and adopt a new policy which
is more liberal towards migrants with skills
and less liberal towards those without. Once
outside the EU’s strictures on free move-
ment we can have a policy that will not dis-
criminate against workers from outside the
EU. The main criteria for entering Britain
should be what you will contribute to the
economy, not where you come from.
At the same time the government needs
to stop treating students as if they were
undesirable, low-income migrants. While
students might physically be entering the
country, their education is a UK export. It is
madness that the Home Office should seek
to thwart the growth of higher education as
an export industry.
There will be plenty of battles to come
over Brexit. Still, the EU refuses to talk trade
— even though the UK has made the conces-
sions which Michel Barnier said were nec-
essary for trade talks to commence. If and
when they do begin, they will bring more
bruising battles and threats of rebellion.
But at the same time, the intransigence and
unreasonableness of Brussels’s Brexit nego-
tiating team has served to undermine further
the EU’s reputation in Britain. Meanwhile,
the resurgence of the euro crisis in Italy has
reminded everyone of the deep flaws in the
EU’s pet project, the single currency. There
is little sign of significant change of opinion
in Britain and nothing to suggest that if the
referendum were re-run, the result would
be any different — in spite of the apparent
chaos in government.
There is no going back on Brexit, but
there can and should be every attempt to
build consensus for what follows. Liberal
policies on trade and migration ought to go a
long way to satisfy those who interpreted the
referendum result as a regrettable attempt by
the British public to turn their country in on
itself. It cannot be emphasised enough that
this was not the intention of many of those
who campaigned for Brexit. On the contrary,
the EU’s half-hearted commitment to free
trade, compromised by its native protection-
ism on agriculture in particular, convinced
Brexit supporters that Britain could grow
a stronger economy outside the EU than
inside it. Many Remainers, whether on the
Conservative backbenches or in the wider
population, will remain sceptical — but it
is now in Theresa May’s hands to formulate
policy which will bring a little more unity to
what has become a fractious country.
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Brothers in arms, p6
Help! p36
Napoleon’s vision, p48
THE WEEK
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Leading article
Portrait of the Week
Diary
The
Daily Mail,
Brexit and me
BOOKS & ARTS
10
Next up, Nato
Trump’s trade war is becoming
a full-blown security crisis
Fraser Nelson
11
Alistair Elliot
‘Another Deposition’: a poem
12
The rise of the pop-up brothel
Tenants made my flat into a vice den
James Innes-Smith
14
All hail Æthelflæd
The queen who sent the Danes packing
Harry Mount
18
What happened to communism?
Marxism is still alive and well
Peter Hitchens
21
Becoming German
My new passport has helped me
understand Brexiteers
William Cook
22
The best place to be poor
By using soup kitchens and drop-ins,
I can live in London for nothing
C.A.R. Hills
BOOKS
28
Robert Tombs
A Certain Idea of France,
by Julian Jackson
Paul Dacre
Politics
The pressure on May is rising
James Forsyth
The Spectator’s Notes
30
Ian Thomson
Barracoon,
by Zora Neale Hurston
Horatio Clare
Trudeau’s more pointless than Trump
Charles Moore
14
Barometer
The World Cup, a
Tongan feast and poor healthcare
15
Rod Liddle
The stupidity of good intentions
16
Mary Wakefield
The secret segregation of state schools
22
From the archive
The future of Scandinavia
25
James Delingpole
Girl is teaching
me the art of walking on eggshells
26
Letters
The point of kindness, what
Trump should do, and hurrah for fairs
27
Any other business
For Paul
Pester of TSB, the only way is exit
Martin Vander Weyer
Into the Raging Sea,
by Rachel Slade
32
Houman Barekat
Rock and Roll is Life,
by D.J. Taylor
33
John Hare
The History of Central Asia, Vol. 4,
by Christoph Baumer
34
Niall Griffiths
American Histories,
by John Edgar Wideman
35
Boyd Tonkin
The Shape of the Ruins,
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Mika Ross-Southall
Happy Little Bluebirds,
by Louise Levene
36
Mark Mason
Yeti, by Graham Hoyland
Susie Boyt
The Recovering,
by Leslie Jamison
Cover
by Morten Morland.
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Black lives matter, p30
Our Aethel, p14
Get some perspective, p40
LIFE
38
Frances Wilson
The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters
or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life,
by Henry Hitchings
39
James Bradley
Their Brilliant Careers,
by Ryan O’Neill
Philip Hancock
47
Radio
Why Rod’s wrong
Kate Chisholm
48
Exhibitions
Napoleon: Strategist
Andrew Roberts
The heckler
LIFE
55
High life
Taki
Low life
Jeremy Clarke
56
Alistair Elliot
‘The Queen of Assyria’: a poem
57
Real life
Melissa Kite
Bridge
Susanna Gross
AND FINALLY . . .
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Notes on…
The Landmark Trust
Will Heaven
‘The Summer Temp’: a poem
ARTS
40
Adam Begley
How looking at the Earth from
above changed everything
Johann Sebastian Bach
Richard Bratby
42
Theatre
Translations; Tartuffe
Lloyd Evans
Musicals
58
Chess
Raymond Keene
Competition
Lucy Vickery
59
Crossword
Mr Magoo
60
No sacred cows
Toby Young
Battle for Britain
Michael Heath
61
Sport
Roger Alton
Your problems solved
Oklahoma!;
Bernstein at Aldeburgh
Richard Bratby
44
Opera
Der fliegende Holländer; Lohengrin
Michael Tanner
45
Television
Can Science Make Me Perfect?;
Flowers
James Walton
46
Cinema
Ocean’s 8
Deborah Ross
Mary Killen
62
Food
Tanya Gold
Mind your language
Dot Wordsworth
CONTRIBUTORS
Paul Dacre’s
diary is on p7.
He has been the editor of the
Daily Mail
since 1992 and is to
step down later this year.
Robert Tombs
is a
Professor of French History at
Cambridge and the author of
The English and their History.
On p28, he writes about
Charles de Gaulle.
Boyd Tonkin
is author of
the forthcoming
The 100 Best
Novels in Translation.
He
reviews Juan Gabriel Vásquez
on p35.
Susie Boyt,
whose most
recent novel is
Love & Fame,
writes about alcoholism and
literature on p36. She writes
a shopping column for the
FT Weekend.
Frances Wilson
is author
of, among other books, a
biography of J. Bruce Ismay,
the chairman of the White
Star Line who fled the sinking
Titanic.
She writes about the
wisdom of Dr Johnson on p38.
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