Letter to Bim Afolami and Sir Oliver Heald – 18 October 2019

It is just over one month since the government’s deadline for applying to the EU Settled Status Scheme passed – and EU citizens are already paying the price. Deporting EU citizens In just the last week: It emerged tens of thousands of elderly and vulnerable people are at risk because they didn’t manage to apply…

UK Researchers have been awarded about £500m in grants since re-entering the Horizon Programme one year ago. The UK has had the highest number of beneficiaries of any of the 19 non-EU members and, in terms of value, the third highest. In total, nearly 3000 British science projects were awarded grants in 2024, according to…

They We are all sick and tired of Brexit and would like to hear no more of it.   Does Boris really think it can all be put behind us and we can then get on with everything else that needs to be done – the NHS, schools, jobs, housing, social care, and so much more?…

On July 1st 2025, Sam Johnson, a student at UCL and member of the North Herts for Europe standing committee spoke at a North Herts for Europe event about how Brexit has impacted students. This talk was informed by his preparations to study abroad in Warsaw, Poland. He discussed the added hurdles of post-Brexit legal…

In some ways, Brexiters, who despise EU bureaucrats and rail against extra-national decision making, seem to treat it as an act of nature that there are Europe-wide regulatory systems whereas, when transition ends, British citizens will be excluded from their provisions. The related underlying issue is that for many Brexiters the vote to ‘take back…