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Tag: Brexit

  • Tuesday, January 9th 2018 - 08:14 UTC

    PM May's mini reshuffle of the cabinet: much expectation but little action

    The most powerful ministers remained in place, and Education Secretary Justine Greening quit the government after refusing to move to a new post.

    Prime Minister Theresa May attempted to re-energize her government with a Cabinet shake-up Monday as Britain prepares for a crucial phase in the negotiations over its departure from the European Union. But May, who heads a minority government divided over Brexit, had limited room to make changes, and the overhaul could reinforce perceptions that her authority is fragile.

  • Friday, January 5th 2018 - 10:50 UTC

    Blair blasts Labour's “timidity” on a Brexit designed by the “Tory right”

    Blair urged the party he once led to “nail” the “myths” of the Brexit campaign, and fight for the rights of voters to “think again” about leaving

    Ex Labour prime minister Tony Blair has attacked Labor's “timidity” on Brexit, saying it would deliver a departure from the EU designed by the “Tory right”. He urged the party he once led to “nail” the “myths” of the Brexit campaign - and fight for the rights of voters to “think again” about leaving. He said 2018 would be the year the fate of Britain would be decided.

  • Friday, January 5th 2018 - 09:39 UTC

    Scottish seafood processing industry threatened by Brexit: most workers from EEA

    Rural Economy Secretary, Fergus Ewing, said that the study shows the Scottish seafood processing sector dependency on EEA workers

    A study into employment patterns of non-UK workers showed that 58% of Scottish seafood processing business employees come from other countries of the European Economic Area (EEA).

  • Thursday, January 4th 2018 - 10:03 UTC

    Liberal leader pledges Lords should check an abuse of power by government with Brexit

    The Lib Dem leader said the party’s 100-strong Lords bloc would work with Labour and pro-EU Tory peers, when Brexit legislative battle reaches the upper chamber.

    Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has defended plans to use his party’s strength in the House of Lords to fight Brexit, even though he views the unelected chamber as a “bad system” that he did not want to be a member of. Sir Vince said the Lords had limited political impact, but the upper house should be used to check an “abuse of powers” by the Government.

  • Thursday, January 4th 2018 - 08:05 UTC

    UK farmers growing concern about a post Brexit scenario

    Concerns have been raised that a deal with the US could include chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-fed beef.

    Post-Brexit trade deals could pose the biggest peacetime threat to the UK's food security if welfare standards and farmers are not protected, MPs say. Imports of food produced with lower welfare standards should not be allowed, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agro-ecology warns.

  • Tuesday, January 2nd 2018 - 10:58 UTC

    Brexit: First quarter of 2018, “point of no return” for financial services industry

    HSBC has said it is on course to move up to 1,000 jobs to France where it already has a full service universal bank after buying up Credit Commercial de France

    The clock is ticking for the financial services industry, with banks said to be months away from being forced to act on Brexit contingency plans that could see thousands of jobs leave the UK. The first quarter of 2018 has been dubbed the “point of no return” for banks, insurers and asset managers as the industry calls on the UK to clinch a transition period that would extend market access to the EU beyond March 2019.

  • Sunday, December 31st 2017 - 06:09 UTC

    PM May New Year message: more Brexit, and promises of focus on schools, police and the NHS

    Whilst 2017 was a turbulent year for Mrs. May, she described it as one of progress, with the first stage of Brexit talks completed in December.

    Britons will feel “renewed confidence and pride” in 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May has said in her New Year message. The prime minister said that while Brexit will be “crucial” in the coming year, it is “not the limit” of the government's ambitions, and it will focus on schools, the police and NHS to change people's daily lives.

  • Thursday, December 28th 2017 - 09:59 UTC

    Parliament demands release of studies on potential impact of Brexit on the economy

    Twenty-five Labour MPs have written to Chancellor Philip Hammond calling on him to release the material after he disclosed the work was being carried out

    The United Kingdom government is facing new calls to release confidential studies drawn up by officials looking at the potential impact of Brexit on the economy. Twenty-five Labour MPs have written to Chancellor Philip Hammond calling on him to release the material after he disclosed the work was being carried out during a recent session of the Commons Treasury Committee.

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 12:38 UTC

    Dublin does not accept direct rule from London in North Ireland

    The Stormont executive collapsed at the start of 2017 after a bitter row between the DUP and Sinn Féin over a failed energy scheme.

    The Irish government would expect to have a “real and meaningful involvement” in Northern Ireland if efforts to restore Stormont fail, the Irish prime minister has said. Leo Varadkar said he would not support a return to direct rule from London if time is called on talks to restore a power-sharing government in Belfast, and anticipated he would make a fresh bid for a deal in January.

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 10:30 UTC

    Theresa May says she is more than “Madame Brexit”, and is “in for the long term”

    “You might have noticed I smiled when I heard the translation of Mrs. Brexit or Madame Brexit,” she told reporters.

    British Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted she is more than “Madame Brexit,” having been given the title by Poland's prime minister. She said there were “other things” she wanted to achieve apart from delivering a successful exit from the EU - such as improvements to education and training, and insisted she was “in it for the long-term”, shrugging off suggestions she had had a bad year.