Ireland warns failure to get Brexit trade deal will be ‘ruinous’ for the UK and anger US president-elect Joe Biden as negotiations stall with just a WEEK to the ‘final’ deadline Ireland has warned failure to get a Brexit trade deal would be ‘ruinous’ for the UK Irish PM demanded Boris Johnson ‘knuckles down’ with … Read more
Former Brexit Party MEP Baroness of Buckley blasts opponents of Boris Johnson’s internal market bill in Lords… only to vote AGAINST after getting into a ‘palaver’ with voting app Claire Fox defended the Internal Market Bill during speech in the House of Lords She later admitted she had accidentally voted against it with the voting app … Read more
Is Boris Johnson heading for a Brexit collision course with Joe Biden? Fears of transatlantic tensions as Government insists it will stick with its withdrawal bill despite concerns over effects on Good Friday Agreement PM vowed to push ahead with legislation to override Withdrawal Agreement Peers were set to vote in favour of a motion to … Read more
George Eustice today hinted at a UK move on post-Brexit fishing rights amid signs Joe Biden’s US election win has sparked a fresh push for a Brexit trade deal. The Environment Secretary suggested that agreements setting the ‘ground rules’ on access for EU fleets could cover several years – an apparent shift from the demand … Read more
Brexit deal ‘is there to be done’: Boris Johnson is confident he can ink an agreement with the EU as clocks tick down on trade talks Prime Minister said the two sides were in sight of a deal during talks in London EU chief Bexit negotiator Michel Barnier arrived in London last night He said … Read more
The fear in the Minister’s voice was palpable. ‘It’s not just going to be Covid. He’s going to focus on that. But then it will spiral off into all sorts of other issues. It’s really scary.’ Nigel Farage is back. Last week it was announced the Brexit Party would be rebranding as Reform UK. Its mission: … Read more
Health chiefs are ramping up preparations to roll out a coronavirus vaccine to the nation’s most vulnerable people within three weeks, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Jon Findlay, head of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, is understood to have told a meeting last week of his executives and senior managers from other … Read more
Deal or no deal, truckers ‘face chaos at the UK border from January 1’ as the Brexit transition period ends, bombshell report warns Passenger traffic for Dover ferries and the Channel Tunnel could suffer delays The National Audit Office said it expects ‘widespread disruption’ at UK borders It made clear the delays would not be … Read more
Of all the low points in Theresa May’s three tortured years in Downing Street, few were more humiliating than the moment Boris Johnson walked out of her Cabinet. She had summoned senior ministers to the Prime Minister’s official country residence, Chequers, in July 2018 to get them to support her Brexit deal with the EU. … Read more
Boris Johnson apologised to business leaders for the introduction of new Government ‘diktats’ during the second coronavirus lockdown today and vowed not to extend the enforced closure of UK plc. The Prime Minister delivered a short -pre-recorded video message to the CBI conference this morning after being forced to cancel a scheduled Monday slot after … Read more