Priti Patel blames Facebook and TikTok for increase in migrant Channel crossings June 6, 2021 Priti Patel has demanded that social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok remove posts that “glamourise” illegal migrant Channel crossings. The home secretary has written to a swathe of online giants to demand they “put an end to the exploitation of your platforms by criminals involved in organised immigration crime”. Her letters came after it emerged [...]
Boris Johnson calls on G7 leaders to vaccinate the globe by end of 2022 June 6, 2021 Boris Johnson will urge world leaders at next week’s G7 summit in Cornwall to help vaccinate the entire globe against Covid-19 by the end of 2022. He said today that the world’s richest countries had to come together to end the coronavirus pandemic, adding that “vaccinating the world by the end of next year would [...]
Indian variant is ’40 per cent more transmissible’, Hancock says June 6, 2021 Matt Hancock has said he believes the Indian variant of Covid is 40 per cent more transmissible, but that the link between Covid cases and hospitalisations has been “severed”. The health secretary said it was “too early to make a final decision” on whether the 21 June shedding of Covid restrictions will go ahead. Hancock [...]
Exclusive: Government set to take ‘gentle’ approach to get people back to the office June 4, 2021 The government is set to take a “gentle” approach in getting people back to the office this summer, with working from home advice also expected to be scrapped on 21 June if the roadmap goes ahead as planned. Government sources told City A.M. that ministers will not take a hardline approach to get people back [...]
UK-Norway trade deal set to be done by Saturday with tariffs slashed on British agriculture June 3, 2021 The UK and Norway are set to strike a £20bn trade deal within the next two days, with both sides very close to an agreement. A source close to international trade secretary Liz Truss told City A.M. the deal will likely slash Norwegian tariffs on British agricultural exports, like beef and cheese, and provide more [...]
Joe Biden to visit the Queen at Windsor Castle in his first overseas trip June 3, 2021 Joe Biden will meet with the Queen next week at Windsor Castle after he finishes at the G7 meeting in Cornwall. Biden’s first overseas trip will be to the UK for the three-day G7 summit, before he visits Belgium and Switzerland. The US President and his wife Dr Jill Biden will meet Queen Elizabeth at [...]
Rishi Sunak prepares to chair G7 finance ministers summit in London June 3, 2021 Rishi Sunak will tomorrow chair the first day of this year’s G7 finance ministers summit in London, with a global taxation deal set to be on top of the agenda. The chancellor has said his major priorities for the two-day summit will be an agreement on a global tech tax and to urge other G7 [...]
Theresa May joins Tory rebellion against Boris Johnson’s foreign aid cuts June 3, 2021 Theresa May has joined a group of 30 Tory rebels that are preparing to defy Boris Johnson and vote against his foreign aid cuts next week. The growing group of backbenchers could hand the Prime Minister his first House of Commons defeat since his 2019 election victory by amending a bill to restore the UK’s [...]
Internationally agreed vaccine passport ‘some way off’, says Hancock June 3, 2021 An internationally agreed vaccine passport for travel is still “some way off”, according to health secretary Matt Hancock. Hancock told reporters ahead of the G7 meeting in Cornwall next week that the UK was discussing the issue with its global partners. It comes after Boris Johnson said he was working on an international agreement for [...]
UK looks to wrap up Australia trade deal in coming weeks June 3, 2021 The UK is aiming to close a free trade deal with Australia in the days after next week’s G7 summit in Cornwall. Both sides said last month that they would aim to sign up to an in principle agreement by June. It comes as the 11 nations of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific [...]
