Mark Drakeford has warned the Brexit deal agreed by the UK Government with the EU on Northern Ireland earlier this week could have a negative impact on Welsh Ports.
Rishi Sunak quizzed over NI's 'unbelievably special' EU access comments at Prime Ministers Questions [1 min]
01/03/2023
Rishi Sunak claimed the UK offers a “very special status” to Scotland when challenged to replicate Northern Ireland’s “special” EU single market access for other home nations.
The Tap It Out cycling club will now have to close after paying the fee.
Labour’s Andy Dunbobbin said a “perfect storm” of the Ukraine war, Brexit and the Covid pandemic had caused him to propose a rise in the local policing levy.
About 1,000 university research jobs are at risk unless the UK government urgently replaces European Union funding, bosses have warned.
Public opinion on Brexit in North Wales appears to have shifted significantly according to a recent poll. The number of people regretting the decision to leave the European Union (EU) now outnumbers those in favour of Brexit in every North Wales constituency.
The 730 redundancies at a chicken processing plant could be the “first of many” such blows to the Welsh economy the Leader of Anglesey County Council has warned.
Brexit and inflation blamed over ‘devastating’ plans to close Llangefni 2 Sisters factory
25/01/2023
Brexit and inflation have been blamed as two of the key factors behind plans to close a poultry factory on Anglesey. / He said the company’s chief executive had cited Brexit and the impact on trading conditions as one of the main causes behind the factory’s potential closure.
Conservative MS raises concerns over delays with post-Brexit replacement grant for EU funding
18/01/2023
A Welsh Conservative has told the Senedd that the new UK subsidy control regime is taking so long to navigate that it’s having a detrimental impact on a business in his constituency.
Ministers are facing a clash with opposition and Conservative MPs over their plans to scrap EU-era laws copied over to UK law after Brexit.
UK government plans to scrap thousands of EU laws at the end of 2023 should be reconsidered, according to a cross-party group of Senedd members.
Plaid Cymru has accused the UK Government of securing “tiny trade deals” as a result of a ‘frenzied dash for glossy headlines’ and is calling for an economic assessment on the impact of post-Brexit trade deals on the Welsh economy.
FUW President Glyn Roberts has described Brexit as a “mess” and says the exit from the EU is one of the factors responsible for the hardships now being faced by farmers across Wales.
Ellie Newis reviews two of the flagship free trade agreements that were supposed to reignite the UK economy.
A Brexit border control post in Holyhead is set to shrink under plans for a lighter touch system using more data and technology. In May, the UK Government delayed introducing more checks on EU goods entering the UK for the fourth time over fears it will impact supply chains and add to rising inflation.
"It's not us putting the prices up, it's Brexit." / Rosa shared some staggering statistics. Between the referendum result in 2016 and May 2018, 1900 florists shut up shop. Between May to October 2018 more floristry businesses closed.
“Only a total rejection of Brexit lies can fix broken Westminster politics,” Plaid Cymru Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts MP will today say in a keynote speech at the party’s annual conference.
The current turmoil in Westminster is the climax of a "six-year long Brexit psychodrama", Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster says.
‘Brexit has devoured its own children’ says Welsh politics professor after Liz Truss resignation
20/10/2022
A Welsh politics professor has said that “Brexit has devoured its own children” after the Conservative party lost four Prime Ministers since the vote in 2016.
Mark Drakeford says during Dublin visit that his country has not found itself to be better off after leaving the EU.
Vaughan Gething claims Wales will be £1bn worse over the next three years, after the UK Government announced a package to replace funding previously allocated by the European Union, before Brexit.
Cemaes Community Interest Company (CIC) secured permission in 2018 to convert Capel Bethlehem into a holiday let, cinema and restaurant. / But now the site has gone on the market with estate agent Dafydd Hardy for £400,000. The CIC said grant funding of the scale required has been very difficult to source post Brexit and the pandemic.
A number of local food businesses in the city have closed their doors at a time of spiralling costs and tightening budgets for households.
Got No Beef announced that they have closed their doors for the final time.
An ex-UK Government Tory minister has admitted the Welsh were deliberately misled about how replacement money for former EU funds would be spent in Wales. Wales used to receive a huge amount of money from the EU before Brexit.