Nick Hopkinson

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: London Needs EU and YOU! (Part 1) - online registration only. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. London4Europe Rally - the first of two events to be held this year in London, aimed at placing London at the forefront of the campaign to Re-align with - and eventually Rejoin - our friends and collea...

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This is the video to share and show anyone who thinks brexit hasn’t been done ‘properly’ yet and going further would be good for this country.

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Paul Nowak calls on Labour to forge closer relationship with Europe In an exclusive interview, the head of the TUC says a customs union with the EU could boost the UK’s economy Keir Starmer should seek out a far closer relationship with Europe, including a possible customs union, the head of the TUC has said. Paul Nowak, TUC general secretary, said the British public recognised the need for a vastly improved trading arrangement and said it had become more urgent than ever because of the fickle nature of the relationship with Donald Trump’s United States. Continue reading...

Paul Nowak calls on Labour to forge closer relationship with Europe

Chris Murphy 🟧 on X: "I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich. https://t.co/yqj2cAQZdx" / X I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich. https://t.co/yqj2cAQZdx

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👏 Keir Starmer PM: "How Brexit was sold and delivered was wrong. Wild promises were made to the British people and not fulfilled."

"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."

Revealed: Brexit costing the UK £250m a day in lost tax revenue The UK is losing £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis commissioned by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.

www.libdems.org.uk/press/releas... @eddavey.libdems.org.uk is spot on here. We need closer relations with Europe to ameliorate our #costoflivingcrisis

Let’s be honest about the damage that Brexit has done. There is a £90bn hit to treasury income every year as a result of the Brexit deal. In the OBR papers, they say disposable income for families is going to go down and that the effects of Brexit outweigh and wipe out any of the benefits of all of the government’s new trade deals combined. Brexit has been a disaster for our country, it has been a disaster for our economy.- Daisy Cooper, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats.

It’s time to admit what a disaster Brexit has been.

Liberal Democrats have a plan to fix our trade with Europe to turbocharge the economy, fix the cost of living crisis and properly fund our public services.

Excellent. Only @eddavey.libdems.org.uk has a policy to solve our #costoflivingcrisis

www.facebook.com/share/v/17fd... Alistair Campbell nails it in his brief defence of the #BBC

At least someone is standing up for #BBC and press freedom in the UK

The Prime Minister must pick up the phone now to Donald Trump. We have 24 hours to stop Trump’s billion-dollar raid on British licence fee payers.

We’ve written to the PM, calling on him to demand that Trump drop his ludicrous $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC.

ingdeexhibition.org/artwork/87460/ #ArtforSale at prestigious #DiscerningEye exhibition at the #MallGalleries near Trafalgar Square, London and online

ingdeexhibition.org/artwork/87461/ #ArtforSale at the #DiscerningEye exhibition at the #MallGalleries near Trafalgar Square, London

Proud of my Susanne who had two pictures selected for the prestigious #IngDiscerningEye exhibition at the #MallGalleries off Trafalgar Square, London. #ArtinLondon #ArtforSale #ContemporaryArt

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The evolution of UK-EU relations since 1958 as seen from Wilton Park. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. From the viewpoint of Wilton Park, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s policy forum in West Sussex, this webinar will focus on: How the UK gradually opted for EC membership; and How as ...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The evolution of UK-EU relations since 1958 as seen from Wilton Park. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. From the viewpoint of Wilton Park, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s policy forum in West Sussex, this webinar will focus on: How the UK gradually opted for EC membership; and How as ...

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Book talk - The Policies and Power of Public Diplomacy - Wilton Park's Road | King's College London Former Director at Wilton Park, Nick Hopkinson, presents a new volume exploring Wilton Park’s higher-level discussion since 1946. during China Week 2025.

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-... Another chance on Friday 24 October at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
to hear more about this fascinating story of post-war policy making at @wiltonpark.bsky.social , this time focusing on relations with China

The emerging/developing world builds relationships while #Trump antagonises allies.

🗳️🌍 New op-ed by Nick Hopkinson @nickhopkinson.bsky.social, former director of @wiltonpark.bsky.social:

The urgent need to revive democracy and the power of diplomacy

📖Read the article: fpc.org.uk/op-ed-the-ur...

Anyone who has ever been to a @wiltonpark.bsky.social event knows that it’s a place of quiet diplomacy and soft power. Nick has pulled together a wonderful history of an institution that deserves to have its praises sung more often!

Truth in Politics

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The Policies and Power of Public Diplomacy: Wilton Park's Road This volume examines the higher-level discussions convened at Wilton Park, the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s policy forum, since its inception in 1946. Originally a ‘re-education’...

www.routledge.com/The-Policies... One of the joys of completing a multi-year project is reconnecting with long term friends such as @christinecheng.bsky.social I hope this survey of higher level discussions on security and global challenges since 1946 published by Routledge proves useful.

We must be brave on immigration – now! The Liberal Democrats have always been at their best when they’re brave – when we shout about things we believe in, even if they go against the current trend. Things that can tap into a seam of public...

www.libdemvoice.org/we-must-be-b... The debate on #immmigration needs to be grounded in reality, not fantasy.

'The reset with the EU must be ambitious if we are to meet our economic, security and other objectives' - LabourList If the opinion polls show that public opinion continues its gradual but relentless shift in favour of rejoining the EU, then surely smaller steps, at least, should be easier.

labourlist.org/2025/05/eu-b... where we need to go in UK-EU relations in a nutshell.

Spot on

Top Tory caught admitting Brexit drawback in leaked clip In response tonight, the Tories insisted that Chris Philp was not saying the Tories did not have a plan for how to handle asylum seekers post Brexit.

news.sky.com/story/leaked... This leak rather proves the point that #Brexit has made the UK’s immigration challenge worse, not better.