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Jon Danzig

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Jon Danzig is an award winning medical journalist and formerly an investigative journalist at the BBC. He specialises in health, human rights and the European Union.

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Labour can’t make Brexit work

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My poster in October 2024 said the black hole in Britain’s finances was Brexit. Now the Chancellor agrees: Brexit is the cause of many of Britain’s economic problems.

Migrants are not to blame for Britain’s problems

Jon Danzig |

Britain depends on migrants – yet our leaders and some newspapers still scapegoat them for the nation’s ills. The truth is the very opposite: without migrants, Britain would struggle to survive, let alone thrive. Ten years ago, in October 2015, I gave a speech about how UK newspapers were publishing shocking lies about migrants and […]

Churchill’s dream has almost come true

Jon Danzig |

In May 1948 Winston Churchill declared at the launch of the Congress of Europe: “We cannot aim at anything less than the union of Europe as a whole.” Churchill’s dream has nearly come true. Today, almost every European country is either in the EU or has applied to join. The outsiders? Russia, Belarus, and Britain.

Brexit: How Britain was out-negotiated

Jon Danzig |

Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, kept a secret diary of the talks. Published in 2021, it revealed in painful detail why Britain lost so badly at the negotiating table. Jonathan Powell, former Downing Street chief of staff, summed it up. Britain was left with: “a flawed withdrawal agreement and a deeply disadvantageous future […]

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