Brexit: We must use EU divorce to slash tariffs for developing nations and boost UK trade, says PM adviser April 13, 2021 Brexit: We must use EU divorce to slash tariffs for developing nations and boost UK trade, says PM adviser
Labour turns up pressure on Rishi Sunak over his role in Greensill Capital scandal April 13, 2021 Labour is calling for Boris Johnson to conduct a more thorough inquiry into the David Cameron lobbying scandal, with Anneliese Dodds today also calling for Rishi Sunak to answer questions over his contact with Greensill Capital. The shadow chancellor criticised Sunak for not answering questions in parliament today about how Greensill Capital was allowed to [...]
Boris Johnson wants to ‘understand intention’ behind David Cameron lobbying April 13, 2021 Boris Johnson has today said a review into the David Cameron lobbying scandal will seek to “understand what the intention was” behind efforts to implement supply chain financing into government departments. Johnson yesterday launched an independent review into Cameron’s efforts to lobby ministers on behalf of failed finance supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital. The [...]
Boris Johnson warns more people will die of Covid as England eases lockdown April 13, 2021 Boris Johnson has today warned that more people will die of Covid-19 as England unlocks, while adding that it has been the lockdown and not the UK’s vaccine rollout that has driven down rates of infection. The Prime Minister urged people in England to be cautious and to still follow social distancing rules, after pubs, [...]
Enforcement of judgments: Brussels opposes UK entry to the Lugano Convention legal pact April 13, 2021 Brussels is pushing for the UK to not be able to join the Lugano Convention, an international legal pact, after officials held a crunch meeting yesterday. The EU is reportedly against allowing the UK to join the convention on the grounds that it is not a member of the European Economic Area or the European [...]
Sir Nick Clegg says EU has ‘let millions of Europeans down’ in vaccine rollout April 13, 2021 Sir Nick Clegg has hit out at the EU for letting “millions of Europeans down” in its slow rollout of the Covid vaccines. The Facebook Vice President, and staunch remainer, said “something has gone badly wrong” in the bloc’s handling of the rollout and that “across the EU people are waiting for their vaccines impatiently”. [...]
Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed as media tycoon Jimmy Lai writes from prison April 13, 2021 Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been jailed for four months today for ‘unauthorised assembly’ and breaching an anti-mask law during a demonstration in October 2019. Among 47 others charged under a national security law, Wong is currently serving a separate 13.5-month jail term for organising an unauthorised assembly outside police headquarters in June [...]
Former Labour minister Baroness Shirley Williams dead at 90 April 12, 2021 Former Labour cabinet secretary and Liberal Democrat life peer Baroness Shirley Williams has died today at the age of 90. Williams was one of the original “gang of four” that broke with the Labour Party in 1981 to create the Social Democrat Party (SDP), after unhappiness with Labour’s left-wing turn under Michael Foot. The SDP [...]
Boris Johnson calls for Prince Philip monument in parliament tribute April 12, 2021 Boris Johnson has called for a monument to Prince Philip, who he said would be remembered for generations to come in a tribute in the House of Commons today. The Prime Minister said that he knew “the House [of Commons] and the country will want to consider a suitable memorial for Prince Philip”. Johnson’s statement [...]
Support for Brexit soars after UK-EU vaccines war, says new poll April 12, 2021 A new poll has revealed that two-in-three Britons think Brexit helped the UK’s vaccine rollout and that support for leaving the EU has risen in the wake of a row over vaccines. A poll by JL Partners/Bloomberg today showed 67 per cent of Britons thought the EU had acted in a “hostile” way during the [...]