Daily Telegraph 17th October 2018 Another round of Brexit negotiation and there’s deadlock. As Mr Corbyn and others have said: “It’s groundhog day”. Over the weekend, there had been whispers that a deal had finally been agreed between the UK and EU. Despite campaigning for Brexit from the very beginning, I can see the […]
The Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT In an interview intended to focus on his successor as Chairman of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, Mervyn King chose to attack the Government on the pace of EU negotiations. I think Lord King’s criticism is unfair. Just like my exam revision of so many years’ ago, the EU always leaves decisions […]
The Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT Perhaps one of the most bizarre aspects of the post-Brexit political debate is how Leavers and Remainers have been divided into two neat, homogeneous groups of crude stereotypes. Leavers: working-class and salt-of-the-Earth but backward looking reactionaries who live in deprived seaside towns. Naturally, they read the tabloids and don’t like […]
The Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT Hard as it is to believe, Parliament has sailed through even rougher waters than these My colleague Sir Nicholas Soames tweeted this week: “I don’t think in my 35 years as an MP that I have ever known such a truly unpleasant and deeply uncertain time in the House”. Although not as […]
The Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT “Cooler air will be flowing across Britain marking some respite from the current heatwave,” said the weather forecaster this morning. “But it will be getting hot again at the end of the week.” If ever the weather were an analogy for the Conservative Party, this was it. Last night as we […]
The Guardian Michael Fabricant So have we Brexiteers got everything we wanted in the Chequers deal? The short answer is ‘No’. Not if Brexiteers expected the cleanest of breaks from Europe. But it probably was never going to be that way if we wanted to continue to trade seamlessly with the EU. ‘The biggest problem […]
Daily Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT So let’s get this clear! I campaigned for Brexit in the Referendum and I want out! This was borne from when I was in exporting and found that the French and other – mainly southern – European countries wanted bribes like some developing nation to buy from us. And I was […]
Toronto Star MICHAEL FABRICANT Sun., July 1, 2018 Although I am a British Member of Parliament, I will be celebrating Canada Day. Once a British dominion, Canada has matured into a vibrant, prosperous country. In the U.K., we are proud to call Canadians our friends. British MP Michael Fabricant, right, on a hike […]
Britain should pull out of the biased body, which has routinely failed to promote human rights Daily Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT In questions to the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons Chamber yesterday (Tuesday 26th June 2018), I told Boris Johnson: “The President of the United States has called out the UN Human Rights Council for what […]
Daily Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT Remain in the Customs Union? I don’t think so! Back in 2012 when I was Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party, I had a major falling out with David Cameron over UKIP when he was PM. For some years, I had coordinated the Parliamentary Party’s campaigning effort and I had […]