Lord Owen was interviewed by John Humphrys on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on 11 October 2017, reflecting on the last 60 years. Listen to the full length unedited interview here: BBC Radio 4 Today interview…
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Lord Owen argues the need for a Brexit Default Position.
Speaking at The Times Forum Meeting at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, Sunday 8 October 2017.
It is now clear that the German and French governments have vetoed moving into discussions on the Prime Minister’s speech in Florence. We will lose at least two months of negotiating time. We are witnessing the classic Brussels rolling out of delaying tactics compounded by the UK Government’s dithering. It is all creating …
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Lord Owen reacts to the Prime Minister’s speech In Florence, 22 September 2017.
“I believe the whole country can and should now rally to support this negotiating position.
“We are in the midst of the most difficult international negotiation we have ever faced. Disunity weakens our negotiating hand.
“Brexit is the people’s choice. If politicians play games with this issue they imperil the country.
“Brexit does not belong to the Conservative Party. We need cross-party input into refining and buttressing the all important
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“Brexit: we cannot buck the will of the people… but the Government must take more account of its own MPs and… those favourable to Brexit who want some accommodation on democratic choices.”
Lord Owen interviewed by CNN on “the Road to Brexit”
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The world faces a very grave situation over what to do to contain the North Korea dictator.
Lord Owen in the Daily Mirror 5 September 2017
View the article here: DropMOABifDiplomacyFails
The world faces a very grave situation over what to do to contain the Korean dictatorship of Kim Jong-un after the sixth and most powerful nuclear test in defiance of international law and progressively tougher UN resolutions passed unanimously with the support of China and Russia.
This comes after a series of Korean missiles capable of …
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“…the existing machinery that we could most easily adopt is to remain a contracting party to the European Economic Area agreement, as a non-EU contributing member.”
Lord Owen, addressing the House of Lords Debate on the Queen’s Speech, Wednesday 28 June 2017.
Read Lord Owen’s full speech here: QueensSpeech28Jun17
Excerpts: “…Everybody accepts now – the term is ‘implementation period’ – that when we leave the EU, there will have to be a vehicle by which we continue the negotiations. It cannot be Article 50. I believe, and have made clear my view to the Government …
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Courage, Mrs May: minority rule can work.
Opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph, 22 June 2017.
“Jim Callaghan guided his restless party through choppy political waters and this PM can do so too.”
“Minority government is a grind, with the Whips’ Office becoming more important that the great offices of state. From February 1974 to May 1979, I saw the inner workings of the last minority administration to survive more than a few months. Few of us …
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Germany’s ‘soft Brexit’ suggestion is not as favourable to the UK as being a non-EU contracting partner to the European Economic Area Agreement (EEAA).
Letter to The Times, June 20 2017.
‘Soft’ Brexit plan
Sir, Further to your report “Germany offers soft Brexit amid worries about coup at No 10” (June 19), the German suggestion is well meant but is not as favourable to the UK as being a non-EU contracting partner to the European Economic Area Agreement (EEAA) as we negotiate an EU-UK trade agreement. The proposed court would be joint EU-UK, ie. …
