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The government is strongly considering delaying checks on imports from the European Union again amid warnings of severe disruption to supplies in the run-up to Christmas.
Prof Louise Richardson’s jibe linked to minister’s dismissal of experts during Brexit campaign.
Brexit Briefing #130 – a final look at the UK still trying to have its cake and eat it - BEERG Brexit Blog
04/05/2021
This is my last Brexit Briefing. / Because it is the last it is longer than usual. A long goodbye if you will. Over the past 5 years I have written 130 of them, following the twists and turns of the Brexit saga, as various UK actors came and went upon the stage, generally full of sound and fury, but often signifying little.
It's been five years since the UK voted to leave the EU. The vote appalled those who saw it as economic self-sabotage. But those in favor of leaving were not swayed by economic arguments — and likely still aren't today.
Australia has wanted the new agreement but, unlike Britain, has been in no screaming hurry for it. And, unlike Boris Johnson, the Australian Prime Minister faces no domestic political imperative to seal the deal.
As part of our special edition looking at five years since the EU referendum, Alastair Campbell looks at the silence of the Leavers.
Brexit: has ambiguity run its course?
04/06/2021
“Australian Brexit” used to be an upbeat euphemism for a “no deal” Brexit outcome. Now, Australia promises a far more profound insight into the true nature of Brexit.
A major feature of the 2016 Leave campaign was a refusal to define what, precisely, Brexit would mean.
Fears for future of UK beef farming as Australians eye up tenfold increase in exports after trade deal
20/05/2021
Boris Johnson has been warned that his prospective trade deal with Australia could spell “a slow painful death” for Britain’s beef farming industry, after one of Australia’s biggest producers said a zero-tariff agreement could increase exports to the UK tenfold.
Michael Gove says he is working to ensure that every Government department understands the workings of the protocol.
Boris Johnson has been warned his prospective free trade deal with Australia could “decimate” the British farming industry, as opposition parties unite against a zero-tariff agreement.
UK has handed Australia whip hand in trade deal talks by being ‘desperate’, Boris Johnson warned
20/05/2021
‘It gives the Australians the ability to say, ‘we’ll dig in – here are our terms, but we’re not going to budge’.
British farming will struggle to compete if zero-tariff trade on lamb and beef goes ahead with a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia, the president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has said.
SNP warn Brexit trade deal will sacrifice Scottish farming for zero tariff deal on Australian meat imports
18/05/2021
A UK cabinet row on allowing tariff free imports from Australia has exposed fears that a trade deal will destroy Scottish farming and open up another front in the independence debate.
George Eustice and Liz Truss have reportedly rowed over a proposed trade deal between the UK and Australia.
Brexit: is it sustainable?
08/07/2021
In January 2020, as Britain was about to exit the EU, a post appeared on the London School of Economics (LSE) blog musing about the mechanism and conditions that might apply if Britain ever wanted to re-join.
Brexit: the arrogance, stupidity and lies
09/04/2021
In a 1940 essay, George Orwell made a number of what I think were some astute observations about the qualities of the English ruling class. He saw them as patriotic but “impenetrably stupid”. / “What is to be expected of them is not treachery or physical cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.”
No 10 is in denial about the cost of Brexit – and the Welsh Government about what they can do to fix it
25/03/2021
Meanwhile, in the real world, we have seen a catastrophic slump, by 41%, of all our exports to the Continent. / Trade between Welsh ports and Ireland (which remains in the single market) has seen a decline of 50% in Holyhead, and 40% in Pembrokeshire.
arning that UK in danger of sliding back to 1970s reputation as ‘dirty man of Europe’.
Greener UK claims analysis shows rhetoric on environment not being matched by action.
The so-called “green Brexit” promised by the government has not been delivered, a coalition of environment groups says.
In 2020, the appointment of David Frost as UK Brexit Chief Negotiator – not as a minister, not as a civil servant, but as a special adviser – raised a set of accountability issues once the Department for Exiting the EU was abolished.