Daniel Hannan



Profile:
Full name: Daniel Hannan

Area of interest: Politics

Journals: The Daily Telegraph

Email: office@hannan.co.uk

Website/blog: Hannan.co / Telegraph.co blog

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Biography:
Education: Marlborough College; Oriel College, Oxford: Modern History (First)

Career: Director, European Research Group, 1994/1999; The Daily Telegraph: Leader writer 1996– ; Special adviser to Michael Howard 1997/1998; has written for The Wall Street Journal, Die Welt, Weltwoche, The Sunday Telegraph, The Catholic Herald, Freedom Today, Brussels Journal, The Spectator

Current positions: Daily Telegraph leader writer (since 1996); Quarterly column at First Magazine ("the forum for global decision makers")

Politics: Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region for the Conservative Party - elected 1999 and re-elected in 2004 - serves on the Internal Market & Consumer Affairs Committee and is a substitute member on the Employment & Social Affairs Committee

Viewpoints/Insight: Calls for a referendum on the European Constitution

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Controversy/Criticism: has Daniel Hannan become an internet sensation?'' - MEP's tirade against Gordon Brown is top of YouTube's most viewed, Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 26th March 2009

Books: Time for a Fresh Start in Europe (Bow Group, 1993); A Guide to the Amsterdam Treaty (1997); The Euro: Bad for Business (1998); The Challenge of the East (1999); What if Britain Votes No? (2002); The Case for EFTA (Bruges Group, 2004)

Latest work: Contributed a chapter to The Future of the NHS (2006) edited by Dr Michelle Tempest

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The Daily Telegraph:
Blog name: Brussels blog

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Website: Telegraph.co blog

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Articles:

 * than Gary McKinnon'' - Andrew Symeou, on trial for murder, would be a cause celebre – if only EU politics wasn't in the way - 13th September 2010
 * Referendum: Now for the most important vote of all'' - Daniel Hannan launches a cross-party campaign for a ballot on whether Britain should stay in the EU - 8th September 2010
 * bullfighting ban: Let the Spanish keep their bullrings'' - We have no right to lecture Spain, especially given the way we treat our own animals - 30th July 2010
 * are not xenophobes'' - By labelling those who question the EU, Europhiles are trying to take dissent and debate off the agenda - 6th July 2010 (writing in The Guardian)
 * Cameron doesn't want a row - but the EU won't give him any option'' - If a levy on financial transactions is imposed, the one bit of our economy with the locomotive power to pull us back to growth will be disabled - 13th June 2010
 * Tories and Lib Dems can make natural reformers'' - Liberal Democrats and supposedly 'rightwing' Tories are both keen to bring about a revolution in decentralised democracy - 1st June 2010 (writing in The Guardian with Douglas Carswell)
 * the euro fails, Brussels turns on us to save itself'' - The eurozone crisis and the ambitions of the European Commission will cost us dear - 23rd May 2010
 * begins with referendums'' - It would be absurd to hold a referendum on electoral reform and not on the bigger question of European Union membership - 9th May (writing on The Observer)
 * Hannan: EU is 'in a democratic mess''' - The European Union is an economic, demographic and democratic mess - 22nd November 2009
 * President of Europe? When did we ask for that?'' - One thing is clear about the new EU president, who will be named at a private dinner in Brussels: whoever it is, you won't have had any say - 20th November 2009
 * great EU stitch-up that demeans democracy'' - The appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton lay bare the rot at the core of the Lisbon project - 20th November 2009 (writing in The Guardian)
 * Cameron is wired up for the new digital age'' - The internet has changed politics for ever - the people have become more powerful, and David Cameron knows it - 11th September 2009
 * skeleton speaks of a new Spain'' - The horror of the Spanish civil war had roots in every town, every village. But until recently, the past was left undisturbed, like the communal graves - 30th August 2009
 * is no harm in agreeing to disagree'' - Let's return to the good old days when MPs didn't always toe the party line - 28th August 2009
 * primary objective: make MPs answer to the people'' - Open primaries would make it harder for politicians to forget their voters - 9th August 2009
 * can't have an election until it's too late'' - European Commissioners are obsessed with the need to keep David Cameron at bay until the Lisbon Treaty is ratified - 21st June 2009
 * politics is turning Continental'' - After four weeks knocking on doors and talking to voters, I believe that the need for political reform is stronger than ever - 3rd June 2009
 * old calls for PR are not the answer'' – but the radical proposals endorsed by David Cameron are - 27th May 2009
 * once, Gordon Brown had to sit and listen'' - Daniel Hannan is staggered by the huge global reaction to his home truths about the PM - 27th March 2009
 * wife's real crime? Being middle class'' - The authorities are tackling soft cases because they won't put themselves out - 8th March 2009
 * search of a more hated species'' - MEPs are not the most detested politicians after all - 26th February 2009
 * knock Labour's VAT cut'' - We're in for the worst recession of our lives but the VAT cut is not to be sniffed at - 27th December 2008
 * Eurocrats believe that No is Irish for Yes'' - For Euro-hirelings, Lisbon isn't about democracy, it's about their mortgages - 14th December 2008
 * won't take 'no' for an answer'' - You obviously didn't understand it the first time, Paddy, so go away and try harder. Such is the EU's message to the people of Ireland - 9th December 2008
 * the euro is the worst response'' - I know that the decline of sterling is bad news. But there is a reason why the pound is taking a pounding - 17th November 2008
 * Conservatives, it has to be Obama'' - The election of a mixed-race president who opposed Iraq from the beginning would substantially restore America's reputation - 19th October 2008
 * is exacerbating the financial crisis'' - Brussels is exploiting the crisis to enfore integrationist measures - 6th October 2008
 * steps to making Britain work again'' - 26th September 2008
 * better than worst Poet Laureate'' - Motion is not the first man in the office to struggle for inspiration - 17th September 2008

