by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
I was very surprised by the 2016 election in the United States, but I didn’t have a rooting interest, so I watched the results mostly for reasons of morbid curiosity. Because of my support for Brexit, by contrast, I was intensely interested in the results of...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 12, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
Today’s election in the United Kingdom presumably will decide Brexit, more than three years after the British people voted to leave. If Boris Johnson wins, the government will honor the results of the 2016 referendum and extricate the United Kingdom from the European...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
For two simple reasons, I want Boris Johnson to win a clear majority tomorrow in the elections for the British Parliament. He’s not a lunatic socialist, like Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party and the British version of Bernie Sanders. He’s promised a real...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 10, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
I realize the prospect of a hard-core socialist government for the United Kingdom isn’t funny. Nor is it amusing to think that the political class could undo Brexit and leave the country trapped inside a slowly dying European Union. So many people are in no mood to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
I’m currently in London for discussions about public policy, particularly the potential for the right kind of free-trade pact between the United States and United Kingdom. I deliberately picked this week for my visit so I also could be here for the British...
