Best for Britain is relaunching

Best for Britain will welcome special speaking guest The Rt Hon Gordon Brown. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown will join Naomi Smith, CEO of Best for Britain and Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, president the Open Society Foundations at 6pm on Monday 19th April at another Best for Britain LIVE event.

Best for Britain understands the Prime Minister has promised to "sort out" visa issues which have prevented actors and musicians touring Europe, after thousands of Best for Britain supporters contacted their MP. If true, these comments signal a significant campaign success and a boost to one of Britain's most vibrant industries.

Best for Britain understands that the Government has delayed the next stages of the Policing Bill, despite a majority of MPs voting for it this week. This change of plan comes after more than 20,000 Best for Britain supporters contacted their MPs to express their outrage and raised over £25,000 in a crowdfund to stop the erosion of our rights to peaceful protest.

Crowdfunder launched tonight to fight @PritiPatel's Policing Bill

At some point, we have to say enough is enough. Our groups are now coming together because Britain’s global reputation is on the line. We can’t credibly criticise other regimes for shutting down pro-democracy demonstrations while removing those very same rights at home.

On the one hand, government says it supports trade liberalisation to support high-quality export jobs, and yet on the other hand it has just de-liberalised trade with our largest and nearest trading partner.

British businesses are being strangled by red tape, and the Government seems intent on pulling it tighter. The British Chambers of Commerce doesn’t mince its words – it says this fiasco is an “existential threat” to some businesses.

We know Covid and Brexit are battering the car industry – we’ve known for a year – what we need to know now is what the Government plans to do to replace those lost jobs and that lost tax revenue in the months and years ahead.

If this Government doesn’t want to be stung by the law of unintended consequences, it should provide safe passage for those seeking sanctuary, especially children, and cut Whitehall red tape to remove trade friction and get lorries moving.

When a company the size of Amazon is struggling to deal with something as fundamental as excise payments, it’s clear the present UK trading environment is in utter chaos and ministers really must get a grip now and cut Whitehall red tape for British businesses.

El Dorado is either a mythical city, the search for which has driven explorers to madness and death, or a failed soap opera that got canned early on, as Brexit red tape should be.

If Keir Starmer wants a shot at No 10 in three years, the party must be open to working with the Greens and Lib Dems, particularly given the impending constituency boundary changes and SNP strength north of the border.

Given the huge contribution of British music to the UK economy and the way in which musicians and other performers carry British values worldwide, it is bewildering to hear that the Government rejected the offer of short-term visas.

With the UK at its highest level of terror alert, the Government's failure to secure security cooperation with the EU has put Brits in genuine danger. Police chiefs and intelligence officials have spent the last three years begging for the Government to retain UK access to crucial systems like the European Arrest Warrant and the Schengen Information System.

While a disastrous no-deal outcome was avoided on Christmas eve, it's clear that the limited nature of the Government's Brexit deal is leaving British business in the lurch.

While the next election could still be some years off, this latest seat level model shows that the public is losing confidence in the government. The figures are perhaps unsurprising given the UK's comparatively woeful covid and economic statistics, combined with poor and inconsistent government comms around Christmas restrictions.

A major new analysis of the EU-UK trade deal highlights ten areas that must be addressed urgently to deal with non-tariff trade barriers looming come January 1st.

A free trade deal is a good starting point for modern trading partners but, without cooperation over industry standards and involvement in research programmes, UK businesses will be hurt and the British people will be left worse off.

Every part of the country, from Scotland and the Blue Wall to London and Wales, clearly wants the Prime Minister to keep the promise he made to strike a deal. These figures show why Johnson and his team must now make a final Herculean effort to get an agreement over the line.