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A coalition government is not the answer

in Domestic General Latest NHS on April 6, 2020 April 6, 2020

“Cross-party government worked in wartime—but this is not a war. Those clamouring for coalition should remember that.”

LORD OWEN, WRITING IN ‘PROSPECT’, 4 APRIL 2020

A coalition government is not the answer

“I am opposed to a coalition government.

“Labour …

Statement issued on the eve of the UK’s exit from the EU

in EU & Brexit Latest on January 30, 2020 January 30, 2020

Download Lord Owen’s statement here: Statement on eve of EU departure

I will celebrate with the all-Party Vote Leave referendum campaigners on Friday evening and in particular with those who spent the last three and a half years, at personal

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Lord Owen speaks on the Middle East crisis

in International Latest on January 8, 2020 January 9, 2020

Lord Owen, speaking in the House of Lords Queen’s Speech Debate, Tuesday 7 January 2020.

My Lords, as we talk in this Chamber, the Middle East is once again a powder keg of extreme danger…. We have to ask ourselves

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How must the 5 million Labour voters who backed Brexit feel now?

in EU & Brexit Latest on October 20, 2019 October 20, 2019

Lord Owen writing in the Mail on Sunday, 20 October 2019.

Read the article here: 5 million Labour voters

Extract:

The result of the 2016 referendum cannot be reversed – it must be honoured, The genie cannot be simply put …

Let’s get (Brexit) wrapped up and negotiate intelligently and strongly. If any extension is required to finalise a Withdrawal Agreement, then let it be one the British Government asks for, not one imposed on it by the chicanery of the House of Commons.

in EU & Brexit Latest on October 14, 2019 October 14, 2019

Lord Owen speaking with Julia Hartley-Brewer on TalkRadio, Monday 14 October 2019. Listen to the full segment (approx 14’20”) here: TalkBackRadio show

“Let’s get this wrapped up and negotiate intelligently and strongly. If any extension is required to finalise a …

There is a legal way of exiting the EU by 31st October

in EU & Brexit Latest on October 8, 2019 October 11, 2019

SPEECH BY THE RT HON LORD OWEN TO THE CAMBRIDGE UNION ON “THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITICS IN THE UK”, TUESDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2019

There is a legal way of exiting the EU by 31st October

A PDF of …

Following a Freedom of Information request from Ireland, Lord Owen is happy to make public a letter he sent in April to all 27 EU Heads of Government, President Donald Tusk and President Jean-Claude Junker. Lord Owen’s idea for helping to resolve the ‘Irish Backstop’ is as relevant now as then.

in EU & Brexit General Latest on August 9, 2019 August 19, 2019

Following a Freedom of Information request from Ireland, Lord Owen is happy to make public a letter he sent in April to all 27 EU Heads of Government, President Donald Tusk and President Jean-Claude Junker. Lord Owen’s idea for helping …

Brexit is not the policy of any one political party and as a Brexiteer I welcome this long overdue shift towards delivering on the referendum decision and wish the Prime Minister and his team well on this.

in EU & Brexit Latest on July 26, 2019 July 30, 2019

Continued…As a social democrat I recognise this is a fundamentally Tory government and will continue to oppose a marketised NHS and argue for different social priorities.

Nevertheless I will seek to hold this government to pursuing as its first priority …