In The Media
This is not the Brexit you were looking for
Apparently this Brexit is not the one Leave voters wanted, and is certainly not what Remainers wanted, but it’s the one we’re all having to live with, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. Chief executive of Next, Lord Simon Wolfson, has been...
Home Office still perpetuating dangerous anti-immigration rhetoric
The Home Office does not speak for desperate migrants. It does not speak for businesses crying out for staff. And it certainly does not speak for me, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.Ever since the Brexit referendum in 2016, the UK has become...
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...
UK economy is “frankly doomed”
Billionaire investor and Tory supporter Guy Hands says the UK economy is "frankly doomed" and has been this way since the failed Brexit deal writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.The UK economy is “frankly doomed”. So says billionaire investor and...
Triple lock pensions at risk
The triple lock on pensions has been a long-held Conservative Party commitment and manifesto promise. But not any more it seems.Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE writes for Yorkshire Bylines.Whilst financial markets may have felt some relief at the arrival of Jeremy Hunt,...
Open letter to Truss #3 – October 2022
by Sue Wilson MBE Dear Liz, Since our earlier correspondence, (December 2021 and January 2022) it’s good to see that you have finally ditched the multiple hats and roles in favour of focussing on just one job. The big one. I guess I should start by offering my...
We get it, and we have listened: government U-turn on uncosted tax cuts
The country gets it. We have listened. Can we now bring on the general election and rid the country of Trussonomics and KamiKwasi thinking? Bremain Chair,Sue Wilson MBE, writes for Yorkshire Bylines.One of the most unpopular decisions made by the Liz Truss government...
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...
Truss lost for words in the face of proper journalism
The prime minister finally emerged from hiding today to give a series of quick-fire interviews on local radio – and it didn’t go well by Sue Wilson MBEUntil her appearance on BBC local radio on Thursday morning, newly minted (if not shiny) PM Liz Truss had been...
Just Biden our time
Waking up to the reality of Brexit - our biggest trading relationship is destroyed and we can't conclude one with the world's biggest economy writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.Before Liz Truss had even got her feet under her desk at Number 10,...
Liz Truss – Brexit Britain’s anti-monarchist, Remainer PM
‘These are my principles, if you don’t like them, I have others’ seems to be PM Liz Truss’s modus operandi. Lisa Burton, Bremain vice Chair takes a closer look for Yorkshire Bylines“ I’m against the idea that people can be born to rule – that people, because of the...
The King’s first speech
On Friday, King Charles III gave his first speech to a nation in mourning – what did this tell us about the king he plans to be? Sue Wilson MBE, Bremain Chair writes for Yorkshire bylines.The day after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth, on Thursday 8 September,...