EU Referendum

THE TABLET DEBATE - SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO?

 

 

Seasoned writers and commentators for The Tablet share their opinions ahead of the EU Referendum on Thursday 23 June:

Melanie McDonagh (The Spectator, Evening Standard)

Frank Field MP (Lab; Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee)

Nicholas Boyle (Emeritus Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge)

Chris Patten (Chancellor of Oxford University and former European Commissioner for External Relations)

Jacob Rees-Mogg (Con; MP for North East Somerset)

 

THE DEBATE

BREXIT: DON’T TRUST THE EUROPHILES
Former Labour Minister Frank Field (pictured left) argues the case to leave the EU - a position more usually associated with the Tories.  It's a position he took up reluctantly but has since become more convinced of...

REMAIN: STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
Professsor Nicholas Boyle discusses the one issue rarely being discussed is that of the EU as an alternative to the concept of the nation state

 

 

NEWS

DIVISIONS OVER BREXIT AHEAD OF 23 JUNE REFERENDUM
Catholics were among the faith leaders to sign a letter calling for Britain to stay in the European Union on the grounds that Brexit will undermine European efforts to keep peace and combat poverty... 

CAMPAIGNERS WELCOME DECISION TO SACK LIVINGSTONE FROM RADIO SHOW
Media conglomerate decides not to renew contract of former London Mayor more than month after anti-semitic comments... 

 

HEAD TO HEAD 

BREXIT: ON BALANCE, I’M OUT
The Tablet columnist Melanie McDonagh has weighed all the arguments, but the question of immigration and border control has finally swayed her

 

REMAIN: FANTASIES OF FREEDOM
Nicholas Boyle writes that those campaigning to leave the EU highlight the loss of sovereignty. But the fear of being part of a larger entity is a very English complaint

 

 

NEWS

PRIMATES WARN BREXIT COULD HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR IRELAND
The Church of Ireland’s two most senior bishops have said they are concerned about the possible consequences of a Brexit for Ireland, writes Sarah Mac Donald.... 

BROMPTON PROVOST BACKS BREXIT AS A VOTE FOR ‘GREATNESS AND FREEDOM
The Provost of the Brompton Oratory, Fr Julian Large, has called for Britain to leave the European Union, writes Liz Dodd.

 

THE AFTERMATH

Francis Campbell

THE IRISH QUESTION: WHAT WOULD CARSON HAVE SAID?
The vice chancellor of St Mary's University, Twickenham, Francis Campbell, weighs up what an exit might mean for Northern Ireland

 

PM NEEDS GIFT OF HEALING NO MATTER THE RESULT
Peter Hennessey says that the rifts after the 1975 referendum are nothing in comparison to the aftermath of the latest vote