24 hours of Brexit failures
26/01/2024
Collapsed trade deals, rising food prices, more border checks and not enough flowers for Valentine’s Day – thanks a bunch.
EU negotiator signals future relationship negotiations are on course for acrimonious start.
Those sunlit uplands, eh? Another Brexit blow has been delivered to UK exports, and the cheese industry now faces upheaval.
Real pay set to be £470 lower per worker each year, say top economists. / “We can’t blame Brexit for all of the 5.2 per cent GDP shortfall … but it’s apparent that Brexit is largely to blame,” said John Springford, author of the CEF study.
Tokyo is the biggest winner of the UK’s accession to the CPTPP.
Canada 'hedging their bets' on trade agreement with UK while they wait to see how Brexit turns out
03/07/2019
Labour has warned that UK exporters risk being frozen out of key markets after a no-deal Brexit, after international trade secretary Liam Fox admitted that talks on rolling over an EU trade deal with Canada have stalled.
Canada said no trade talks are in progress - despite Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch "explicitly" telling MPs discussions "have not broken down".
Ex-cabinet minister says there's no point in striking a bilateral trade deal at this point.
Canada Gains European Students
08/04/2022
Analysis of data suggests that Brexit is responsible for the transatlantic shift.
Canada has pledged to fill British supermarket shelves with hormone-pumped beef as the two countries opened post-Brexit trade talks.
Canada Is Refusing To Roll Over Its EU Trade Agreement For The UK If There's A No-Deal Brexit
02/07/2019
The decision not to “roll over” the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) if the UK abandons its withdrawal agreement with Brussels is a huge blow to Britain's hopes of maintaining continuity in a no-deal Brexit and could severely impact businesses that sell goods to the Canadian market.
Canada has vowed to put hormone-pumped beef on UK supermarket shelves, as the two countries opened post-Brexit trade negotiations.
Data on Canadian study permits suggests ‘spike’ in student numbers from some continental nations.
Canadian PM suggests London lacks ‘bandwidth’ to get agreement finalised by end of year.
The investigation found that the firm violated both the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the provincial Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA).
Research into similar exercises in other countries has shown they lead to an exodus of talent and a loss of influence with key partners.
Competition commissioner sees agreement with Canada as model but says deal with Brexit UK would be different
The European Union has agreed to allow the United States, Canada and Norway to join one of its military initiatives aimed at speeding up the deployment of troops and equipment around Europe.
EU's Guy Verhofstadt attacks Boris Johnson for 'false promises, pseudo-patriotism, and foreigner bashing' over Brexit
27/06/2019
European Parliament Brexit chief says likely next prime minister is 'a man who continues to dissemble, exaggerate, and disinform the public about Brexit'.
Many UK cheese makers could face 245% duty from 1 January, making exporting unaffordable. / A priceless opportunity to sell “more affordable high-quality cheese to Canada” was one of those many Brexit boons that Boris Johnson championed with his customary blather as prime minister.
The Irish political party pushing to unify the island wants Ottawa to halt post-Brexit trade talks with Britain, arguing that London is undermining the agreement that brokered peace between Catholics and Protestants.
Cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill says emergency contingency plans are needed.
Open letter from group representing 4m western firms outlines ‘grave concerns’.
Senior Tories insist Brexit deal would not scupper US trade agreement after shock Trump intervention
01/11/2019
'We can’t make a trade deal with the UK,' says US president.