Lords committee: UK and EU both to blame for Northern Ireland Protocol mess July 29, 2021 A House of Lords committee has laid the blame for the mess around the Northern Ireland Protocol at the feet of both the UK and the EU, urging the two to come to a compromise solution. The Lords’ European Affairs Committee report into the protocol said Brussels needed to implement the protocol in a more [...]
Tough hill to swallow: New £2m Marble Arch Mound widely panned July 28, 2021 Refunds are being offered to visitors of the new £2m Marble Arch Mound tourist attraction in central London, after a slew of poor reviews and online criticism. The new attraction, which is supposed to give panorama views of central London, has been widely panned on social media and has been compared by some to a [...]
Boris Johnson says being double-jabbed will ‘help you’ go to mass events July 28, 2021 Boris Johnson has said today that getting two vaccines will “help, not hinder” people wanting to travel or go to mass events in a clear suggestion the government wants to roll out vaccine passports. The Prime Minister said “it’s a very positive thing” to get a Covid jab and that take up among young people [...]
Refusing to take Covid vaccine is selfish, says Michael Gove July 27, 2021 People who refuse to take the Covid vaccine are selfish and putting peoples’ lives at risks, according to Michael Gove. The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster also said “some form of certification” was “the right way to go” for things like nightclubs and mass events. More than 70 per cent of adults have received both [...]
Tory China hawks urge PM to dismiss concerns over cutting out China from nuclear plant July 27, 2021 A trio of Tory MPs have called on Boris Johnson to ban a China-owned company from owning a Suffolk nuclear plant amid concerns the move could jeopardise the status of a future site. Reports circulating yesterday suggested the Prime Minister was preparing to ban China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) from retaining majority ownership of the [...]
Tony Abbott predicts UK will block Chinese purchase of Welsh chip factory July 27, 2021 Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has predicted that the UK will block the takeover of the country’s largest chip manufacturer by a Chinese-owned firm. Abbott, who is also on the UK’s Board of Trade, told a virtual event today that the sale would be blocked if it happened in Australia and that Boris Johnson [...]
Labour’s Rachel Reeves vows to restore trading ties with EU if elected July 27, 2021 Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has vowed to renew and enhance the UK-EU trading partnership if Labour is elected at the next General Election. Reeves said Boris Johnson had a “blind spot” while dealing with Brussels post-Brexit and that “gaps have not been filled” in the UK-EU trade deal in the past seven months. British exports [...]
Fears over Spain and Greece grow as holidaymakers await travel review July 27, 2021 There are growing concerns that Spain and Greece could be added to the government’s “amber plus” travel list in the coming days after a surge in Covid cases. Yesterday Number 10 has confirmed it will release a review this week into its traffic light system for international travel, with the status of vaccinated tourists to [...]
Rishi Sunak: ‘Britcoin’ will not replace cash July 26, 2021 Rishi Sunak has hosed down any suggestion that the government could replace cash with a digital currency dubbed “Britcoin”. Sunak said in a LinkedIn post that the government has “not yet made a decision on whether to introduce a [Central Bank Digital Currency] in the UK”, after reports over the weekend suggested the chancellor wants [...]
US maintains travel ban on UK residents over Delta variant fears July 26, 2021 The White House has maintained a travel ban on the UK and the EU’s schengen zone due to fears over the highly transmissible Delta variant. The ban has now been in place since last March when it was implemented by former President Donald Trump. A White House official told Reuters today: “Given where we are [...]
