Tag: Brexit

• Wednesday, May 17th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  Brexit aftermath, UK Parliament takes initiative as to how and when scrapping EU legislation

  

  The British government has suffered defeats in the House of Lords over plans to scrap certain EU laws by the end of the year, reports BBC. Peers backed an amendment which would give Parliament greater scrutiny over which rules should be ditched and also voted to give devolved governments, rather than Westminster ministers, the final say on whether EU rights should be kept.

• Wednesday, April 26th 2023 - 03:45 UTC

  Debate in UK Parliament on impacts of Brexit; request for a public inquest

  

  Brexit and its consequences is not a closed issue and remains very much alive. Not only did Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar reject Brexit, but other Overseas Territories such as the Falkland Islands have suffered from the 2016 initiative.

• Tuesday, February 14th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  UK economy, Brexit and the productivity slowdown controversy

  

  Jonathan Haskel, an external member of the Bank of England monetary policy committee, said a wave of investment “stopped in its tracks” in 2016 following the Brexit vote.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  “Bregret”, the new word to express regret for voting Britain lo leave the EU

  

  Like Brexit a few years ago, popular vocabulary in UK has incorporated “Bregret”, basically meaning “regretting the decision to vote for Britain leaving the European Union”. And one of the latest opinion polls indicates a dramatic shift in the UK as to such a momentous vote. The poll, by Focaldata and taking in 10,000 people across the country, asked respondents whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement, “Britain was wrong to leave the EU”.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2022 - 07:00 UTC

  Increase in food costs for the average UK household because of Brexit, LSE paper Brexit a

  

  Brexit added £210 to the average British household food bill in the two years to the end of 2021, according to a new academic paper from the London School of Economics (LSE), with price rises hitting the poorest families.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Brazil encouraged with UK larger quota for chicken meat and sugar

  

  Brazil is forecasted to gain a 19.3% larger quota of chicken meat exports to the UK in accordance with the bilateral agreement signed last November 17 at the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to information from the financial press agency Valor.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 08:31 UTC

  PM Sunak committed to “no turning back on Brexit”, and rejects CBI appeal for closer trade links with EU

  

  UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rejected calls from the strongest business lobby, the Confederation of British Industry, CBI, for closer ties with the European Union to address damaging trade barriers born out of Brexit, and also ruled out softer immigration rules to help with labor shortages.

• Saturday, November 5th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Ex BoE governor blames much of UK's economic challenges on Brexit

  

  Former Bank of England governor, Mark Carney said that the fall in the pound and shrinking economy after the UK left the European Union, Brexit, had added to “inflationary pressure”.

• Monday, October 24th 2022 - 14:22 UTC

  Rishi Sunak to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

  

  Rishi Sunak, the grandson of Indian immigrants, was nominated Monday by the British Conservative Party to replace Liz Truss as its leader and next prime minister, as his rival, Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt, failed to win enough support to run.

• Friday, October 21st 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Five candidates to replace PM Liz Truss, “fighter turned a quitter”; chaos among Conservatives

  

  Liz Truss announced on Thursday she will resign, which means there will now be another leadership election to decide who becomes the next Conservative leader and prime minister. The contest to replace “the lettuce” as some London media identifies Ms Truss sis expected to be completed by the end of next week.