Lord Howell of Guildford, Author at BrexitCentral

Lord Howell of Guildford

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Lord Howell of Guildford was Conservative MP for Guildford between 1966 and 1997, holding various ministerial posts in the Heath Government and serving in Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet successively as Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport. He chaired the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee between 1987 and 1997. He was ennobled in 1997 and between 2010 and 2012 served as Minister of State at the Foreign Office. He now chairs the House of Lords International Relations Committee and is President of the Royal Commonwealth Society.

The gaping contradictions between Labour's promises and its refusal to get Britain out of the EU

The Conservatives are harnessing the Leave vote far better than Labour are doing with Remainers

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Brexit is rightly making us focus on the network and markets of the Commonwealth

The philosophy of the old EU model is redundant: Europe’s needs in the last century have now become its chains

The growing prospects for trade across the Commonwealth are becoming especially attractive and important