David Hannay

Post-Brexit, UK will be even more reliant on NATO, international rules and global free trade. A Trump presidency would threaten all these.

Government hints and leaks have been a litany of negativism. It’s a serious mistake that limits our chances of preserving close cooperation in vital fields.

The British pride themselves on their pragmatism. But government’s handling of EU referendum fallout stands that attitude on its head.

Overseas students contribute to our global soft-power influence and should not be discouraged from coming here.

What on earth was the foreign secretary doing offering to help Turkey become an EU member when we’ve just voted to quit the club?

There’s a big risk that both Britain’s and the EU’s foreign policy will decline. We’ll both need to work doubly hard to stop that.

Time to come clean about the difference between the single market and free trade.

Sovereignty ayatollahs want to pull out of schemes like Europol and negotiate bilateral deals from scratch. That won’t make us safer.

It’s not just trade and investment. We must resolve a host of difficult issues about relations with the EU.

The government needs time to make its own hard choices on Brexit negotiations but must avoid misleading the public on what’s possible.

First, we’ll need to agree what needs to be agreed. Then there’ll be wrangling over budget, international obligations and so forth.

Brexit is so daunting that people are searching for a transitional agreement. First we must fix broad framework of a long-term deal with EU.