Bremainers Ask
Bremainers Ask – Siobhan Benita
Siobhan Benita was a former senior civil servant who left Whitehall to campaign for better politics. Passionately opposed to Brexit, she joined the Lib Dems on the morning of the EU Referendum result and became a leading voice in their anti-Brexit movement. Now...
Bremainers Ask….Revisited
To start the year, we asked three former Bremainers Ask contributors to tell us about their highs and lows for 2022 and their hopes for the coming year. This is what they had to say.Alexandra Hall Hall is a former British diplomat who resigned from the Foreign Office...
Bremainers Ask ….. Marina Purkiss
Political Commentator, broadcaster and co-host of The Trawl podcast, Marina is very active on social media, with 289,500 Twitter followers. She has her own show, The Table, on BylineTV and regularly appears on the Jeremy Vine Show.Valerie Chaplin: Thank you for your...
Bremainers Ask ……. Peter Corr
Peter Corr is an ex-army HGV driver who lost his job thanks to Brexit and decided to do something rather special to protest about that. He set up the campaign group ‘UK Rejoin the EU’ to fight against Brexit and recently organised the National Rejoin March - the...
Bremainers Ask….. Baroness Sarah Ludford
Since 1997, Baroness Sarah Ludford has been a member of the House of Lords and is currently the Liberal Democrat’s Europe and Brexit spokesman. She was a Member of the European Parliament for London from 1999 to 2014, working mainly on EU security, justice and human...
Bremainers Ask……. Otto English
Otto English is the pen name of author and journalist Andrew Scott. Having worked in theatre and TV in his twenties, as a playwright and researcher, Scott went on to have a ‘portfolio career’ combining teaching and scriptwriting before his online twitter rants and...
Bremainers Ask – Jane Morrice
Born in Belfast, and a teenager during the “troubles”, Jane Morrice built a career on peace building, journalism, Europe and equality. A founder member of the NI Women’s Coalition, she authored the line on integrated education in the Good Friday Agreement. She was...
Bremainers Ask Revisited
This month we asked three former contributors to Bremainers Ask to comment on the current state of play of British politics and Brexit. This is what they had to say: Anna Bird, CEO European Movement Summer 2022 will be seen as the time the tide began to turn against...
Bremainers Ask ….. Alexandra Hall Hall
Alexandra Hall Hall is a former British diplomat with over 30 years’ service, including postings to Bangkok, Washington, New Delhi, Bogota and Tbilisi, where she was the British Ambassador from 2013 – 2016. Her most recent assignment was as Brexit Counsellor and...
Bremainers Ask ……… Terry Christian
Terry Christian is a journalist, actor, author and award-winning radio and TV broadcaster. He has presented several national television series, including Channel 4's The Word and 6 series of ITV’s moral issues talk show, It's My Life. He has also been a strong critic...
Bremainers ask……. Gavin Esler
Gavin Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist. He is the holder of a Royal Television Society award, a Sony Gold (radio) award, and two Lovie awards for his podcast series about Vladimir Putin, The Big Steal. He is the...
Bremainers Ask – Will Hutton – February 2022
Will Hutton is a political economist, author and columnist. He is currently President of the Academy of Social Sciences, writes a fortnightly column for the Observer and co-chairs the Purposeful Company. An associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at the...