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Brexit rethink should be ‘front and centre’ of election campaign – poll

Exclusive: A new poll has revealed that voters back Michael Heseltine in demanding Britain’s relationship with the EU should be ‘front and centre’ of the general election campaign

The Independent UK · May 31, 2024

Businesses battered by Brexit urge Labour and Tories to slash EU tariffs

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) cites improved relations with the trading bloc as part of its five-point plan to boost economic growth

The Independent UK · May 30, 2024

Ignoring Brexit will make election most dishonest in modern times – Heseltine

Former deputy prime minister says discussion of Europe ‘no-go area’ for Labour and Conservatives

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2024

Michael Heseltine’s air raid shows why levelling up from the top down is doomed to fail

The Tory grandee has revealed how he reshaped local authority boundaries by pointing at them from an aircraft

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023

From the Guardian archive: some of John Vidal’s greatest pieces

Former environment editor, who has died aged 74, wrote for the Guardian for more than 30 years

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2023

Robert Priddle obituary

Other lives: Senior civil servant who finished his career as managing director of the International Energy Agency

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2023

Cabinet split over Sunak’s HS2 ‘gross act of vandalism’

Exclusive: Levelling up secretary Michael Gove and transport secretary Mark Harper ‘very unhappy’ over plan to axe northern leg – first revealed by this newspaper – as George Osborne attacks ‘economic self-harm’

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023

Tory titans out to derail Sunak over HS2

PM in crisis as top Conservative revolt over plan to scrap northern leg grows

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023

HS2 may end up as ‘total waste of money’, warns IFS thinktank – as it happened

Comments from Paul Johnson of Institute of Fiscal Studies come as Downing Street hints at delay to work on second phase of rail link

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2023

Scrapping HS2 would be ‘gross act of vandalism’, Osborne and Heseltine warn

The former deputy PM Lord Heseltine and ex-chancellor George Osborne warned the PM not to go ahead with plans to scrap the northern leg of HS2, first revealed by The Independent

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023