A ‘Second Referendum’ on EU Membership?
The European Union Referendum Act 2015 is an Act of Parliament that made provision for a non-binding referendum to be held in the UK on whether Britain should remain a member of the European Union or leave. The bill was introduced to the House of Commons by Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 28 May 2015 and the Act was subsequently passed by 544 votes to 53 on 9 June…
Invasion!
By Max Musson: In the news today is the story that a forty-year old Sudanese illegal immigrant, named Abdul Rahman Haroun, managed to evade all of the security precautions on the French side of the Channel Tunnel and walk the thirty-one miles from Calais to Folkestone before being picked up by British police. According to the Daily Mail’s editorial, this development highlights a greater danger than many of us might have hitherto realised: “… what…