Tag: United Kingdom

• Tuesday, August 15th 2017 - 09:24 UTC

  Theresa May back from holidays; Brexit papers on the table in anticipation of new round of negotiations

  

  Theresa May is expected to be back in Downing Street this week as ministers prepare to flesh out their negotiating position on Brexit. The return of the Prime Minister, who has spent three weeks on holiday in Italy with her husband Philip, coincides with the publication this week of a series of new position papers on Brexit – including one on the fraught issue of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

• Monday, August 14th 2017 - 18:57 UTC

  PM May supports Falklands' self determination; calls on Argentina to meet September joint communiqué

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May reiterated the UK Government’s strong and wholehearted support for the Falkland Islands right to self-determination and underlined UK is seeking a more productive relation with Argentina but cautioned that the full potential of the relationship depends on Buenos Aires meeting the public commitments of the September 2016 joint communiqué.

• Monday, August 14th 2017 - 08:03 UTC

  UK government show of unity: Hammond and Fox share a column in the Sunday Telegraph

  

  The UK will need a transition period to help businesses adjust after Brexit, the chancellor and the international trade secretary have said. In a joint Sunday Telegraph article, Philip Hammond and Liam Fox stressed any deal would not be indefinite or a “back door” to staying in the EU.

• Monday, August 14th 2017 - 07:13 UTC

  Opportunities to strengthen the UK-Argentina relationship

  

  By British Ambassador Mark Kent (*) A few days ago I completed my first year as British Ambassador to Argentina. During this time, I have had the fortune to meet the people of the country, visit some of its cities, try its food, attend events and learn about its way of life.

• Saturday, August 12th 2017 - 10:57 UTC

  British government and Scotland exchange threats over Brexit legislation

  

  The legislation to formally remove the UK from the European Union will not be changed by Westminster, a senior member of Theresa May’s Cabinet has said despite threats from Scotland's SNP ministers to refuse consent for the Bill as it stands.

• Friday, August 11th 2017 - 12:19 UTC

  Ex top officer calls Brexit a “catastrophe”; proposes a new party “The Democrats” with the Remainers

  

  UK government ministers have been put under pressure by David Davis’s former chief of staff at the Brexit department after he asked a serious of pointed question about how leaving the EU will affect their patches. James Chapman, who also worked for George Osborne and as political editor of the Daily Mail, has revealed his belief that Brexit would be a “catastrophe”.

• Friday, August 11th 2017 - 08:16 UTC

  Falklands' Argentine cemetery clandestine photos: Red Cross has all the facts and identity of the alleged individual

  

  ”Everything was caught on camera and there is an ongoing investigation,” the International Red Cross has confirmed, referring to the controversy in July when images of the Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands were reproduced in the Argentine press.

• Wednesday, August 9th 2017 - 15:15 UTC

  Australia recalls 73 Commonwealth experience and offers UK advice on Brexit: don't be gloomy

  

  Britain is “a bit gloomy” about Brexit and can achieve success outside the European Union, Australia’s high commissioner to the UK has said. Alexander Downer said the UK could be “cautiously optimistic” about achieving a new free trade deal with the EU, and could forge a new and successful economic policy if it pursued the right path domestically.

• Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 20:08 UTC

  UK big business lobby calls for a Brexit “transitional, interim or bridging” deal

  

  Britain should consider pushing back the 2019 Brexit deadline as the simplest way to managing all the trade deals and other arrangements for leaving the European Union, business leaders urged on Friday.

• Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 18:37 UTC

  Eggs with finopril scare in Europe: minimum risk in UK say authorities

  

  A very small number of eggs contaminated with a toxic insecticide reached the UK earlier this year. Some of the eggs, which originated from the Netherlands, were also found in France, the country's agricultural ministry said.