‘Stand up to Brexit purity cult’, Keir Starmer to urge Rishi Sunak in Northern Ireland protocol speech in Belfast January 13, 2023 Rishi Sunak must stand up to the “Brexit purity cult” of Eurosceptics on the Tory benches to find a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol issues, Sir Keir Starmer will say. The Labour leader will use a speech in Belfast to urge the Prime Minister to take on the European Research Group (ERG) in order [...]
Can Starmer solve Ireland’s Brexit woes? Labour leader visits Belfast today for meeting with Irish premier Varadkar January 12, 2023 Irish premier Leo Varadkar and UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer are to travel to Belfast on Thursday as efforts to resolve the dispute over the protocol ramp up. The Taoiseach and Sir Keir are to meet with the main Stormont parties to discuss the deadlock over the post-Brexit protocol, which the DUP party has [...]
Sadiq Khan: Time to end ‘vow of silence’ on Brexit business hit – and his plan to fix it January 12, 2023 Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will lay into what he describes as the “selective amnesia” of government ministers who ignore the impacts of Brexit on the British business community. Speaking at a black tie dinner in the City tonight, Khan will say that the “unnecessarily hard-line version of Brexit (ministers have chosen) is having a [...]
Staff shortages could cause summer travel chaos again – and 40 per cent of industry bosses blame Brexit January 11, 2023 Summer 2023 could spell additional trouble for the UK travel industry, with over half of rail and airline operators worrying about future staffing shortages – and almost 40 per cent blaming Brexit. Data published today by software company SAP show that 55 per cent of industry decision makers believe staffing challenges will impact customers’ travel [...]
Brexit, Covid and Ukraine drag on Games Workshop’s profits despite record sales January 10, 2023 Warhammer-maker Games Workshop recorded sales of over £200m for the first time, but Covid, Brexit and the war in Ukraine continue to dent its commercial plans. The FTSE 250 firm announced it made £212m from May until the the end of 2022, up more than £20m on the previous year. But it also reported a [...]
Scrapping bankers’ bonus cap is a return to global norms, says City minister January 10, 2023 City minister Andrew Griffith said today that scrapping the bankers’ bonus cap would realign Britain with global financial norms, as he faced questions from MPs in parliament about the government’s so-called Edinburgh Reforms. Discussing bankers’ bonuses, Griffith said “we have departed from global norms… the global competitive set do not have this (bonus cap).” London, [...]
Brexit: UK and N Ireland data-sharing progress a ‘positive step’ in protocol wrangling January 10, 2023 Progress between the EU and the UK on post-Brexit data-sharing has been hailed as a “positive step” in ongoing talks to find a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol row. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris met European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic in London on Monday, as London and Brussels try [...]
Hotel Chocolat looks beyond Europe and signs deal with Japanese corporation January 3, 2023 Leading British chocolate brand Hotel Chocolat is looking beyond Europe after Brexit and has signed a new partnership with a major Japanese corporation. The tabletop favourite has teamed up with the Tokyo-based Eat Creator Corporation, after trading in Japan for the last four years. The chocolate maker reported a £9.4m loss for 2022 loss in [...]
Brexit: Protocol ‘too strict’ and mistakes made on all sides, Ireland’s Varadkar says January 3, 2023 Brexit mistakes were made on all sides according to Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, but vowed to be “flexible and reasonable” when attempting to solve issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol. He conceded that the post-Brexit protocol is “too strict” and said he understands unionist concerns that the treaty has made them feel less British. Mr [...]
Not ‘appropriate’ for UK to publish details of post-Brexit Israel trade deal impact December 28, 2022 The government has said it is not “appropriate” to publish full details of a post-Brexit trade deal with Israel. Details of the agreement which boosts £5bn trade between the countries won’t be made public, the department for international trade (DIT) confirmed today. The deal has a strong focus on boosting UK services exports to the [...]