Peter Oborne: ‘I Can’t Forgive Myself’ for Voting for Brexit, but Britain Will Rejoin EU

Jan 13, 2024 | Peter Oborne joins Hugo Rifkind to talk about everything from Brexit, the upcoming general election, and the war in Gaza.

Peter Oborne Absolutely DEMOLISHES Keir Starmer

Sep 25, 2023 | “You’d be very unwise to believe a word Keir Starmer ever says"

I have said it so many times before, but I think I need to repeat myself: The only man to vote for in the next general election is Ed Davay, the leader of the Liberal Democrats. The Tories, once Britain's best hope in each and every election, is now a corrupt party bereft of any good policy or any ideas for a prosperous future. It is also backward-looking – it forever harks back to Britain's glorious past. Furthermore, it has trashed the economy, even though it has been in power for more than 13 years. Any decent party in power for more than thirteen years would have got the economy in fairly decent order by now. Not so the Tories.

It's not worth voting for Starmer, because he is the leader of the socialist party: Labour. Socialists rarely have the economic answer to any economic problem. Moreover, you can bet your bottom dollar that if Keir Starmer comes to power, he will lead a bunch of champagne socialists. And one last very important thing: He is deluded! Why? Because he is determined to make Brexit work. Now that is delusion! Brexit will never work. It cannot work. There are many reasons for this, but the most obvious one is that Brexit has meant that this country has turned its back on the biggest single market in the world — The Single Market — and that single market just happens to be on our doorstep. Anyone who thinks that his country can prosper by walking away from such a trading bloc needs to go back to university and ask when the next 'Economics 101' class commences! He is in dire need of it!

In my opinion, there is only one leader of any party in British politics today that deserves to be given a chance, and that's Sir Ed Davey. He is pro-EU, pro NHS, and pro giving pensioners a better deal. He is also gay-friendly.

By the way, I am not a member of his party and nor am I affiliated with it in any way. I have also never met the man. I am merely telling you what I think. You can accept it or reject it as you wish. – © Mark Alexander

Peter Oborne EXPOSES Nigel Farage Banking Bigotry

Jul 10, 2023 | It's all very sinister... Peter Oborne is a columnist for Middle East Eye.

Peter Oborne’s new book, Fate of Abraham, here.

Peter Oborne Demolishes Boris Johnson's Legacy

Jul 11, 2022 | "Boris Johnson was able to rise because of powerful anti-democratic forces"

'Why I Changed My Mind on Leaving the EU’ - Peter Oborne Debates Melissa Kite on Brexit | 2019

Apr 8, 2022 | The urge to leave and the desire to remain, to paraphrase one of our guests, they are both elements of the same country... sometimes even at war within ourselves.

Peter Oborne and Melissa Kite join the programme. Peter Oborne today published an article that reads like a roadmap to Damascus:

"Brexit has paralysed the system. It has turned Britain into a laughing stock. And it is certain to make us poorer and to lead to lower incomes and lost jobs. We Brexiteers would be wise to acknowledge all this."

We asked him why he'd changed his mind about Brexit?


Brexit was a STUPID idea thought up by STUPID people who understood nothing about economics, commerce or international trade. The initial mistake was David Cameron’s in offering a referendum to the electorate on a very complex issue which even many MPs didn’t truly understand. Then, the poor electorate were fed lie after lie after lie about the sunny uplands yonder and the sovereignty we’d get back. Yeh! Sovereignty! Maggie sold off all the “family silver” to foreigners years ago. So what sovereignty was there to get back? By the way, our American friends would thank us for rejoing the EU. Most sensible Americans realize that our membership in the Union was, and will be, only helpful to them.

What this country needs to do—and if Rishi is as smart as they try and say he is, he will do it—is eat humble pie. They tell me it’s very tasty! We need to do all we can to rejoin the EU, the Single Market, and all that comes with the territory. Forget the opt-outs, oh and dump the pound and join the euro.

As I stated in an earlier post this week, the pound is going down and down and down anyway. Since the Great War, it has halved in value every ten years. Its loss of value has been unabated. Are we to wait until a pound is worth 50¢ before joining the euro? Would that be prudent? Come on, fellow compatriots! Let’s get real! We are Europeans anyway. Stop dorking around! Oh, and apologize to our European brethren for being so truculent. Long live the European Union! Es lebe die Europäische Union! Vive l'Union européenne ! – © Mark Alexander

Peter Oborne Absolutely DEMOLISHES Liz Truss

"Liz Truss is FINISHED & may have DESTROYED the Conservative Party altogether"

Who Really Has the Chemical Weapons - the Syrian Government or UK/US de facto Backed Militants?

We speak to the Associate Editor of the Spectator magazine, Middle East Eye columnist, Peter Oborne on the similar hallmarks this time round in Syria to WMD in Iraq and genocide in Libya.