UK citizens want co-operation and free commerce with our partners in the European Union, but a majority believes that too much power has been transferred to Brussels; in areas ranging from policing to employment law, from Health and Safety to financial regulation, our citizens want more control over their own lives.
The Fresh Start Project will work with MPs across party lines, along with leading 'think tanks', interest groups, Lords, MEPs and constitutional experts to:
1. Examine the options for a new UK-EU relationship;
2. Set out what this new relationship could look like;
3. Establish a process for achieving change; and
4. Build political support to make it happen.
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We have read your Executive Summary - Options for Change - and generally agree with all therein. It is interestying that with all said and done, there is no reference to any reason why GB should stay in the EU. You illustrate many disadvantages but not one advantage, thus giving a biassed overall impression of Fresh Start's phiposophy. It might be fairer if your summary included some of the advantages of staying iin the EU, otherwise just recommend a fast exit.
- Andrew
On this morning's today programme Ken Clarke challenged John Humphrys to name the directives from which the UK should derogate (apart from the working time directive). So which ones are they ?
- Hedgelayer