In the UK it costs nearly twice as much as in France to secure a skilled worker visa for an overseas scientist. It costs roughly ten times as much as in Australia, and fifty times as much as in South Korea. The numbers are from the Royal Society, the UK’s leading scientists’ association, which is worried that what it calls a “punitive tax on talent”...
Johnson's much-trumpeted FTAs “barely scratch the surface of the UK’s challenge to make up the GDP lost by leaving the EU”.
All trade deals combined worth less than 50p per person a year, analysis of government figures shows.
Iter is a collaboration between China, the EU, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US - all of whom are sharing in the costs of construction.
Voters promised a Brexit boon will consider bid to keep Nissan and Toyota as ‘ridiculous’, prime minister warned.
Open letter from group representing 4m western firms outlines ‘grave concerns’.
UK signs £15bn trade deal with South Korea in bid to soften blow of losing £634bn in free trade with EU after Brexit
22/08/2019
The agreement is equivalent to roughly 2 per cent of business with the bloc.
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'.
Ambassador to South Korea says most officials there show ‘deep incredulity’ on the matter. / British ambassadors have been sending messages to the foreign office describing Brexit as a political shambles that is destroying the UK’s reputation, the serving UK ambassador to South Korea has said.
UK-South Korea trade deal: Two experts reveal how Britain’s post-Brexit arrangements are actually going
10/06/2019
Trade experts have welcomed the announcement that the UK and South Korea have signed an in principle post-Brexit trade deal. / However they have warned there is still work to be done to ensure international business continues seamlessly after Brexit, with only 12 of the 40 EU free trade agreements (FTAs) secured for the UK so far.
Business Secretary Greg Clark said the U.K. isn’t likely to reach agreements with Japan and South Korea to roll over existing trade deals before Britain’s scheduled departure from the European Union on March 29.
Goods dispatched in coming days may not arrive until after 29 March deadline.
Fresh inward investment in the sector plummeted in 2018, down 46.5 per cent on 2017 to just £588.6m.