France targets City of London firms in post-Brexit ‘Choose France’ push June 20, 2021 French President Emmanuel Macron has began a new push to bring City of London firms to Paris post-Brexit. JP Morgan chief Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon have been invited to Macron’s “Choose France” event at the Palace of Versailles on 28 June, where the President will try to make the case for investment in [...]
UK-EU food and drink exports halve in first quarter June 18, 2021 The UK exported more food and drink to countries outside the EU than to the bloc in the first three months after Brexit, a first for the sector. However, that is because exports to the EU dropped by nearly half – 47 per cent – compared to the first quarter of 2020. Exports to non-EU [...]
Tesco grapples with Brexit-driven lorry driver shortage June 18, 2021 Tesco is “working hard” to address a shortage of HGV drivers, the supermarket’s boss revealed in a call today following its quarterly results. “In terms of labour availability, we’ve seen some shortage specifically in HGV drivers, but we’re working really hard to address that,” Ken Murphy said in the post-results phone call this morning. “We’ve [...]
Meat industry cuts production amid Brexit-driven staff shortages June 17, 2021 Labour shortages caused by post-Brexit immigration rules mean the UK meat industry has had to cut production, warning that without change it could soon be unable to fulfil orders. Production in the meat industry had fallen by around 10 per cent since Easter because of worker shortages across farming and processing, the British Poultry Council [...]
Indeed: Global interest in UK jobs post-Brexit lifts to pre-pandemic levels June 17, 2021 Searches from across the world for UK-based jobs have returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to jobs site Indeed, as international workers eye easing travel restrictions. The UK’s new points-based immigration system has seemingly drawn in interest for its higher-paid jobs post-Brexit after Indeed’s new job rates slumped in the height of pandemic uncertainty. As the government [...]
Big in Japan: More British chicken will head to the ‘land of the rising sun’ June 16, 2021 The UK has bagged a £65m market access deal with Japan which will see more British chicken served on Japanese tables over the next five years. The agreement, which is estimated to be worth up to £13m per year, will see UK farmers ship poultry to the world’s third-largest economy. International trade minister Ranil Jayawardena [...]
Government tells UK farmers to ‘stop being defensive’ and embrace Australia trade deal June 16, 2021 The UK-Australia trade agreement, announced yesterday, will serve as a “stepping stone” to a wider trans-Pacific pact, the International Trade Secretary said as she rejected farmers’ concerns about the deal. Liz Truss insisted there will be opportunities for British farmers to sell produce into Australia and “we’ve got to stop being defensive”. She said the [...]
Brexit: ‘Undocumented’ EU citizens may face deportation as settlement deadline nears June 16, 2021 EU citizens may face removal from UK as Settlement Scheme deadline approaches
€229m drop in April: Imports from Britain to Ireland continue downward slope June 15, 2021 Irish imports from Great Britain in April decreased 20 per cent from a year ago. Imports have continually fallen since Brexit, according to a Bloomberg report. Ireland’s statistics office today reported imports from Britain fell by €229m compared with April 2020. The greatest decreases were in the imports of “Food and live animals” and “Chemicals and related products”. Goods [...]
First summer post-Brexit: Panic among desperate UK farmers as hundreds of thousands of fruit pickers stay away June 15, 2021 Farmers across the UK are in panic mode as the busiest season of the year is about to start but they are faced with a shortage of hundreds of thousands of European workers. In fact, there is such a “massive whole” in the number of available fruit and vegetable pickers that it is putting farmers [...]