The prime minister will not U-turn on the international law-breaking Internal Market Bill in the wake of Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election, Downing Street insists. Biden has long warned the US will not deal with the UK if the Good Friday Agreement for peace in Northern Ireland is put at risk by […]
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his fourth winter economic plan in six weeks by announcing the extension of the furlough scheme until March. It means the government will pay 80% of workers’ wages with companies paying national insurance and pension contributions. Support for self-employed had also been extended and the amount increased from previous Treasury statements. […]
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As the UK government continues to urge businesses to prepare for a no-deal outcome, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, told reporters that a Brexit trade deal is ‘likely’ after all. After missing Boris Johnson’s mid-October deadline and the ensuing stand-off, Britain and the EU put their differences aside once more and recommenced negotiations. […]
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The prime minister and the French president have held talks to try and break an impasse over fishing that is threatening a UK-EU trade deal with time rapidly running out for agreement. Boris Johnson warned Emmanuel Macron that negotiators need to bridge “significant gaps” within days given the need to reach a deal this month […]
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The transition period end is drawing ever closer as the UK is less than four months away from charting its own destiny away from all the EU rules and regulations. With Brexit talks going from bad to worse, a leaked letter from Michael Gove, The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has urged logistics companies […]
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The British army has been put on notice to deploy on British streets by the prime minister who today announced a tightening of restrictions to try and curb the spread of Covid-19. Boris Johnson said the country is at a “perilous turning point” in the fight against the coronavirus and in this evening’s television address […]
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Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill “climbdown” with MPs over his contentious internal markets bill is not enough for Europe or senior members of his party. EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said the UK government must “correct” its position before talks on economic and political relations can continue, while the European Commission (EC) said their ultimatum for […]
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MPs have backed the prime minister’s highly controversial Internal Market Bill despite a growing rebellion against the government within Tory ranks. The bill that empowers the government to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement saw 340 MPs back Boris Johnson, with 263 voting against on Monday night. Johnson has an 80 majority but the […]
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Coronavirus rules and restrictions are proving even more divisive than Brexit in Britain, according to a poll of 10,000 people carried out across the UK. Demos has found that animosity between people who stick to the coronavirus rules and those who do not runs even deeper than the animosity felt between Brexit ‘Leavers’ and EU […]
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The UK government is preparing to override parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement that is designed to avoid a hard border in Ireland, putting at risk the “peace and stability built up over decades”. Downing Street claims the move – which will remove a hard border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and the […]
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