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The 4% hit to economic output envisaged by the UK’s fiscal watchdog could cost £84.5bn, Labour and Commons library research suggests.
Boris Johnson refuses to retract claim that Ukraine’s fight against Russia is like Brexit vote
22/03/2022
Any prospect of prime minister being invited to this week’s EU summit appears to have vanished – but Joe Biden will be there.
The economic fallout from leaving the EU is becoming all too apparent.
Cabinet Office used ‘unverifiable data’ to rebut a Road Haulage Association survey showing export volumes dropped by 68%
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves spoke to Channel 4 News ahead of her conference speech. She said she has “no plans whatsoever” to increase income tax adding that Brexit has “played a part” in the shortage of HGV drivers causing fuel shortages and queues at petrol stations across the country.
Despite not seeming keen to cut VAT as per the Leave campaign promise, he took the opportunity to say this week that leaving the EU means the UK can now set its own VAT rates.
The UK's chief Brexit negotiator has said the government is not "scared" of walking away from talks without a trade deal ready to come into force in 2021.
Former attorney general lashes out as Tory rebellion gathers pace.
Having been grossly misled in the referendum, Britons’ anger is mounting as the reality of our plight becomes clear.
International trade secretary tells PM and chancellor plans risk smuggling and damage to UK reputation.
Up to 12 post-Brexit customs centres like Kent lorry park to be built to deal with EU exit
13/07/2020
Businesses face 400 million extra customs declarations a year at a cost up as much as £20 billion under government plans.
Ministers accused of building 'pointless lorry park in Kent' after announcing £700m for trade checks [1 min]
12/07/2020
'This is all so pointless. We are creating a vast customs bureaucracy, with costs passed on to the consumer'
Fishing rows notwithstanding, much of Europe looks on at the UK’s plight with astonishment – and even, still, sympathy.
Cabinet Minister Michael Gove has defended his plans for new post-Brexit border infrastructure after Labour said the government was unprepared.
New border checks in Kent and elsewhere reverse 47 years of removal of trade barriers.
Michael Gold makes the case for membership of the European Economic Area, Simon Price outlines our slow economic decline after leaving the EU, and Dr David Mathieson urges Labour to rethink its policy.
Michael Gove has insisted that there will be no ‘new customs infrastructure in Northern Ireland after Brexit before claiming there would be ‘some expansion of existing infrastructure’, sparking accusations of “double speak” from one Lib Dem MP.
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.
Ports Firm Advised By Chris Grayling 'Wins £35m' Brexit Cash As Others Get 'Next To Nothing'
17/12/2020
Rachel Reeves MP asks why money was given to Hutchison Ports Europe, which is advised by the former transport secretary.
Labour’s Brexit radio silence ends
10/03/2021
It seems that Labour is finally getting its act together on holding the government’s feet to the fire over Brexit, after what has appeared like a few months of sidestepping the issue.
Work on an "emergency lorry park" in Kent to accommodate up to 10,000 vehicles bound for Europe began without the knowledge of residents.