UK food shortages: Rural areas and summer holiday favourites at ‘back of queue’ for deliveries
22/07/2021
As supermarket giants pile pressure on suppliers to serve cities and bigger towns, shops in rural areas and tourist hotspots such as Cornwall, Norfolk and the Highlands stand to be overlooked.
THE UK fishing industry will lose a massive £300 million by 2026 as a result of the UK Government's Brexit deal, industry experts have predicted.
A TORY Minister has been unable to name a single benefit Brexit has offered Scottish farmers.
The UK is facing a “winter of discontent” after the Tories pushed ahead with Brexit taking Britain out of the European Union, Scotland’s Deputy First Minister has warned.
“Boris Johnson once spoke of Brexit and the ‘sunlit meadows beyond’, but the reality he has delivered is food rotting in the fields because there is no one there to pick it."
The breakup of the UK has been described as the “most likely” form of “constitutional watershed” from Brexit according to a politics professor.
The government is to apply much less rigorous EU border checks on imports than it initially had planned, after the Brexit transition period finishes at the end of this year.
Former PM says Westminster government is out of touch and fundamental changes are needed
Critical report by Council of Europe calls for more support for Cornish, Irish and Ulster Scots.
UK 'will reject Sturgeon's Indyref2 calls'
28/02/2019
The UK government is preparing to reject any call from Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for the power to hold another independence referendum, sources have told the BBC.
TWO-THIRDS of Scots want Brexit to be delayed, according to a new poll. With coronavirus engulfing the political machinery of the UK and the EU, Boris Johnson is coming under increasing pressure to extend the transition period beyond December this year.
A Midlothian MSP has been told to move on from constitutional debate after a survey revealed that most Brits do not believe Brexit has benefited the United Kingdom.
Former European council president’s remarks will boost SNP’s campaign for second independence referendum.
The company which owns former US president Donald Trump’s Ayrshire golf course posted a more than £15 million loss in 2021, its accounts show. / The former president’s son Eric Trump signed off the accounts for the Turnberry course as a director of the company, saying in a report that Brexit had impacted on supply chains and staffing.
Trade body Salmon Scotland has reiterated its fears that the UK Government’s decision to unilaterally alter part of the post-Brexit deal it agreed with the European Union could hit trade to the Continent, Scottish salmon’s most important export market.
Aberdeen-headquartered TRAC International has said Brexit and inflation have led to heavy group losses led by its radio division.
Tory members happy to trash UK economy, break up union, and destroy their own party to get Brexit, poll finds
18/06/2019
Conservative party members would happily the support break-up of the United Kingdom, “significant damage” to the British economy, and even the destruction of their own party in order to secure Brexit, a poll has found.
Tory Brexit an 'unmitigated disaster' claim SNP as survey shows UK firms at a disadvantage
17/02/2022
A poll of UK firms found paperwork and increased costs after the Brexit trade deal came into force.
BORIS Johnson's proposals for a bridge or tunnel connecting Northern Ireland and Scotland have faced criticism from the Fraser of Allander Institute think tank.
Health Secretary Humza Yousaf was speaking at the SNP conference.
Scottish government buildings will be allowed to continue flying the EU flag alongside the saltire every day of the year, the SNP has said.
Former prime ministers stress impact of leave vote on Irish and Scottish relations with UK after referendum
THE COUNTRY’s pre-eminent historian has mocked the Lead Non-Executive Director of the UK Government in Scotland for comparing Brexit to the Easter Rising.
One year after Brexit, Scotland’s fishing industry is still mired in chaos, leaving many businesses fearing for their future as deliveries to Europe continue to be snarled in costly red tape and delays.
Three years after Brexit, Scotland’s fishing and seafood industries are still snarled in costly red tape, worker shortages and disappointing catch quotas, leaders warn.