Brexit

There’s something disarming about the way Francesco Lari, chairman of UKIP’s Nottingham City Branch, half-seriously apologises for only having time to have a quick 10-minute chat before he needs to get back to work. “As you can see, I’m not a professional politician”. For any UKIP member, the student crowd...

Andrew Lewer, pro-Leave Conservative Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands, held a talk at the University of Nottingham titled “Brexit means Brexit” which focused on reassuring the audience about Britain’s future after the Leave result. Impact spoke to Lewer about the future of Higher Education,...

Donald Trump is President of the United States. Donald Trump is President of the United States. Get over your denial. Donald J. Trump is President. At times of political disbelief, the easiest response is to stick your head in the sand, to pretend that it isn’t happening. To pretend...

After winning the constituency of Croydon Central by a mere 165 votes in the 2015 General Election, Housing Minister Gavin Barwell has every right to be happy. But a loss for his side in the EU Referendum and the departure of David Cameron, whose brand of Conservatism Gavin heartily...

Local MP Lilian Greenwood: “Brexit is having a chilling effect on our universities”. Having resigned from being Shadow Secretary of State for Transport after the EU referendum result, Lilian Greenwood is under no illusions of the problems facing not only Labour, but the UK as a whole. For her...

Local Labour MP Lilian Greenwood visited the University of Nottingham on Friday 14th October to give a talk titled “Labour after Brexit: can it ever win back power?”. The Labour Member of Parliament for Nottingham South, first elected in 2010, expressed little confidence in Jeremy Corbyn,“after a disastrous summer,...

The impact of Brexit on Britain’s Higher Education institutions is to be examined by a group of MP’s. The Education Select Committee is set to examine how British universities will still remain competitive. It will not examine how Brexit will affect University research and funding. “The inquiry now gives...