Women problem looms as PM’s reshuffle set for next week February 3, 2020 Boris Johnson has earmarked 13th February for his reshuffle, City A.M. has learned. The Prime Minister is hoping to make his move just before MPs go into recess, to allow sacked ministers time to lick their wounds, according to one senior parliamentary source who has been put on standby for next Thursday. What had initially [...]
Pound sinks as Boris Johnson warns of hard Brexit February 3, 2020 The pound has sunk in early trading today ahead of a Boris Johnson speech in which the Prime Minister is expected to demand a looser trade deal with the EU that could spell a hard Brexit. Sterling fell over one per cent against the dollar to $1.3069 ahead of the Prime Minister’s speech. Johnson is [...]
Government tells EU deal must be struck this year as it reveals negotiating position February 3, 2020 Downing Street has stressed a trade deal must be struck this year if it is going to happen at all, as part of its opening gambit in trade talks with the EU, following Boris Johnson’s landmark speech this morning. The government is seeking a deal with the EU that is “at least as good” as [...]
Boris Johnson: UK doesn’t need EU rules for Brexit trade deal February 3, 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK will not accept EU rules as part of a post-Brexit trade deal, but said Britain is not going to engage in a “cut-throat race to the bottom” standards. In a heavily trailed speech in London, the PM said: “There is no need for a free trade agreement [...]
Dominic Cummings sets up ‘spy network’ in bid to stop leaks February 3, 2020 Boris Johnson’s top adviser has set up a network of informants in plush Westminster restaurants in an audacious bid to stop ministerial aides from leaking to journalists. Dominic Cummings told special advisers on Friday that they must cough up half the bill if they go out for lunch, dinner or drinks with members of the [...]
Boris Johnson’s disastrous Huawei decision is an act of national self-harm February 3, 2020 Powerful US Republican senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas put it best. Letting the state-sponsored Chinese technology firm Huawei build even a portion of Britain’s 5G network — as the Prime Minister nonsensically decided to do last week — is quite a bit like letting the KGB construct the British phone systems in the 1980s. At [...]
Johnson says Australian model on the cards for UK–EU trade deal February 2, 2020 Boris Johnson will today fire the starting gun on trade negotiations with the European Union, with the government floating the idea of a looser Australian-style deal if a more comprehensive arrangement cannot be agreed. In a speech today the prime minister will say the UK is aiming to negotiate a Canada-style free trade deal, “but [...]
Brexit: UK diplomats ordered to make immediate break with EU counterparts February 2, 2020 British diplomats have reportedly been ordered to make a clean break with their EU counterparts following the UK’s exit from the bloc. Foreign secretary Dominic Raad ordered diplomats to sit apart from their former EU allies at international events and adopt a stance as a “confident independent country”, the Sunday Times reported. According to a [...]
Brexit: Boris Johnson set to reject regulatory alignment in EU trade negotiations February 2, 2020 Boris Johnson’s government has set out a tough opening stance ahead of trade talks with the European Union, indicating it will reject any trade deal that includes “high alignment” with the bloc. “We are taking back control of our laws, so we are not going to have high alignment with the EU, legislative alignment with [...]
David Cameron made £836,000 last year while Theresa May banked £400,000 February 1, 2020 David Cameron made £836,168 last year in media and speaking fees. The former Prime Minister had more than £538,000 in the bank of his company, The Office of David Cameron, for the year ending April 30, according to new accounts filed with Companies House, which was first reported by The Telegraph. It excludes any profits [...]