The EU is leading to parochialism and laziness when it comes to science
Claire made a short speech to the European Parliament arguing that the EU’s approach to science was inward-looking and could fail to develop homegrown postgraduate skills.
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Forget that I’m British and Brexit and maybe listen to the question!
In comments to the EP’s Culture committee, Claire points out the way the options for responding are put in such loaded terms that there is only one reasonable answer.
Claire Fox: leaked government papers are scaremongering
Claire Fox appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain with Labour peer and prominent Remain campaigner Andrew Adonis to respond to the leak of papers from ‘Operation Yellowhammer’, an internal government process to plan for a ‘no deal’ Brexit. Claire argued that claims of medicine shortages, paralysis of trade and problems getting in and out of … Read more
Electoral pact for any election is ‘complicated’
Claire talked to Sophy Ridge on Sunday about why the Brexit Party will not be apologising for standing against the Conservatives in Brecon and Radnorshire and why the jury is still out on whether Boris Johnson really can deliver Brexit.
It would be foolish to take Boris’s Brexit promises at face value
“As the by-election result came through from Wales last week, one Tory Leaver tweeted this: “Brecon and Radnor is a timely warning to Brexiteers. Vote for the @brexitparty_uk and you will hand another seat to Remain. How could you be so stupid?”. So stupid? The nerve, when after all, it was the Brexit party that resuscitated … Read more
Has this parliament a secret Verboten Word List?
In the European Parliament Thursday 18 July, Claire calls for a point of order to Mairead McGuinness asking if there is an approved list of ‘offensive’ banned words that are forbidden to be used. This comes after her fellow colleague, Louis Stedman-Bryce, was told that the word “rubbish” cannot be used. She claims that this … Read more
Will Philip Pullman forgive my ‘gross insult to Beethoven’?
“In my first week as an MEP, I was delighted to find that my Twitter feed included lots of interest in classical music and literature: Beethoven and Schiller. It soon became apparent that it wasn’t a cultured debate, but vicious condemnation of us turning our backs during “Ode to Joy”. The EU officials had demanded … Read more
The Week in Westminster
Claire gave her first impressions of life as an MEP for the BBC’s The Week in Westminster on Saturday 6 July. Listen to the item here (from 22:27).
‘Gravy train?’ A first taste of life as an MEP
In an article for UK in a Changing Europe, Claire describes her first experiences of being an MEP as she travels to Brussels to sign up with the administration and being briefed on and by the bureaucracy. She writes: ‘If critics think business class travel is the extent of the gravy train, they haven’t been … Read more
What Channel 4’s Jon Snow can learn from the Brexit Party
“Since being elected a Brexit Party MEP, I have gone from gamekeeper to poacher as far as the broadcast media is concerned. Until six weeks ago, I had the privilege of being a commentator who could sit on couches endlessly pontificating. Now as a politician, I’m the target of my fellow commentators. They either discuss me … Read more