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Football may be coming home, but we’re not
Here's Bremain Chair Sue Wilson´s latest article for Yorkshire Bylines: When Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, announced that quarantine measures would soon be lifted for fully vaccinated Brits, the news was largely welcomed. Until Brits abroad looked at the...
Learning to live with Covid
Bremain Chair Sue Wilson writes for Yorkshire Bylines about her personal experience during the pandemic: It’s been nine months since I last saw my mum. Having been used to monthly visits, covid measures have prevented me – like so many others – from spending precious...
Why my vote is important to me
The long-promised return of our democratic voting rights will be welcomed by British citizens across the world. Those who have lived abroad for more than 15 years have fallen foul of the arbitrary rule denying them voting rights in UK elections and referendums. As we...
“Black Lives Matter is a Marxist Organisation”
Bremain Vice Chair, Lisa Burton, recently wrote this piece about the alleged Black Lives Matter links to Marxism for Yorkshire Bylines: We hear it from politicians, celebrities, political commentators, and those who have launched a so-called ‘war on wokeness’ –...
Bremainers Ask – Terry Reintke MEP
Terry Reintke is Vice-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament and the group's coordinator for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She is Co-president of the LGBTI Intergroup and founder of the EU-UK Friendship Group. She...
Open Letter to Boris Johnson from Sue Wilson, MBE
Sue Wilson, Chair of Bremain in Spain and now a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, writes a further open letter to Boris Johnson in Yorkshire Bylines asking for his advice– you can read her earlier letters here. Dear Boris, It’s been a while...
Bremain in Spain Comment on Chair Sue Wilson´s Recognition In The Queen’s Birthday Honours List
On 12 June 2021, the British Embassy announced the names of UK nationals in Spain recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. This year, the List published in the London Gazette includes the name of Bremain in Spain’s Chair, Sue Wilson. “For services to...
Latest round of Brexit negotiations
Bremain Chair Sue Wilson writes for Yorkshire Bylines: Even before the latest round of Brexit talks began on Wednesday, both sides were laying out their stalls. By the time the chief Brexit negotiators Maroš Šefčovič and Lord Frost met, sabres were being rattled and...
Covid and Brexit: a pair of thieves
Bremain Chair Sue Wilson writes for Yorkshire Bylines: Thanks to the pandemic, the last year has seen all our lives turned upside down and inside out. Dealing with a global crisis on this scale would have been damaging enough. For the UK, and to a lesser extent, the...
Bremainers Ask – Lord Andrew Adonis
Lord Andrew Adonis is a Labour peer, historian and journalist who served in government under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Prior to entering frontline politics, he was a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, Public Policy Editor at the Financial Times and a...
Votes for Life Update from the British Embassy
The government has announced today that British citizens who have moved abroad will be given ‘votes for life’ as the UK Government scraps the arbitrary 15-year limit on the voting rights. All British citizens who are living overseas who have been previously registered...
Citizen’s Rights On The Agenda – House Of Lords – European Affairs Committee
A month ago, the new House of Lords European Affairs Committee was formed, to replace the now defunct EU Select Committee. As expected, many of the members of the former committee, including the Chair, Lord Kinnoull, transferred across to the new committee. This was...
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