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Britain will spend 705 million pounds on border infrastructure to help keep trade flowing after its transition deal with the European Union expires at the end of the year, Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove said on Sunday.
Britain uses Brexit freedoms to continue use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticide banned in the EU
24/01/2023
Ministers have approved the emergency use of neonicotinoids against the advice of their own experts in a move branded ‘unacceptable’ by environmental groups.
Britain won’t strike free trade deal with US for years, Liz Truss admits, despite Brexit pledge
20/09/2022
Securing a trade deal with the US was sold at the time as being one of the most significant benefits of leaving the EU.
Ministers are portraying themselves as victims of a deal they created for Northern Ireland. A classic blame-shifting strategy.
With its economy in tatters, England is not having its finest hour. It is a time of transition for the United Kingdom... /
Tokyo is the biggest winner of the UK’s accession to the CPTPP.
British companies trading with Europe will have to absorb a post-Brexit bureaucracy burden and fill in an extra 215m customs declarations at a cost of about £7bn a year, according to government officials.
Britain’s economy is forecast to shrink by 0.4% in 2023, more than any other in the Group of Seven richest nations, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Britain is the only G-7 member whose economy has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.
British Ports Association denies Liz Truss' claim Brexit isn't causing Dover chaos [1 min]
24/07/2022
Mark Simmonds, director of policy at the British Ports Association has said Brexit is responsible for delays at Dover, just hours after Liz Truss blamed the French authorities.
“When your own government screws you over, forgets about you, and essentially makes you out to be a traitor to your own country, British in Europe were there for us," one Brit in the EU has said.
Campaigners hail dramatic government climbdown in battle to protect post-Brexit food standards
01/11/2020
Watchdog to finally get teeth to block chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef imports
Canadian PM suggests London lacks ‘bandwidth’ to get agreement finalised by end of year.
Chances of a ‘green Brexit’ wash away
21/09/2022
Promises that exiting the EU would leave the UK better placed to protect the environment lie in tatters.
The Taoiseach Micheal Martin has called for a fresh round of UK-EU talks on the Protocol rather than the UK taking unilateral action to change the post-Brexit deal.
First came Brexit. Now comes Britain’s bonfire of European laws. / Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is pushing ahead with a contentious plan to remove all remaining European Union laws from Britain’s statute book by the end of 2023, despite opponents’ claims that the move is rash and unworkable.
Death Throes Of Brexit Disaster: Liz Truss And Kwasi Kwarteng Declare Class War On British People
27/09/2022
Six years into the Brexit disaster, the malevolent anti-democratic forces who did so much to facilitate the success of the vote to leave the EU in June 2016 are finally where they always wanted to be: running the government...
RURAL affairs ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland have written to the UK Government raising concerns about the impact of the Australia trade deal on domestic farmers and producers.
Disbelief and outrage across EU as UK says it won’t do anything to stop end to Brexit food checks in Northern Ireland
03/02/2022
European media responded with shock and disbelief this morning after a minister in Northern Ireland ordered to end checks on food in his country and the UK declared it won’t do anything about it.
Dominic Raab's resignation means four out of the five Brexit fanatics behind 'Britannia Unchained' are gone. Next year, voters can finish the job
21/04/2023
Dominic Raab’s departure takes us closer to a wipe-out of five right-wing “brains” who authored a tract published in 2012 under the title “Britannia Unchained”.
Economist who got it spectacularly wrong on Brexit says ‘Liz Truss is nearest thing we’ve got to Margaret Thatcher’
27/08/2022
"Patrick Minford is such a marginal view even within academia. His views are Economics equivalent of ‘flat earth.’"
The government has promised to push for an end to tariffs on UK-made ice cream vans during trade negotiations with the US, Australia and Japan.
Senior Tory Simon Hoare tells i that ripping up Brexit deal in a cost of living crisis would not be ‘grown-up statecraft’.
Several large-scale smuggling incidents show that EU concerns over the operation of the Northern Ireland Protocol are not theoretical, it added.
The EU has accused the U.K. of failing to comply with its post-Brexit obligations toward EU nationals in Britain.
The EU has launched fresh legal action against the UK over its enforcement of post-Brexit trading rules in Northern Ireland.