Reeves says Labour still committed to post-Brexit equivalence for the City November 16, 2021 Labour is still committed to getting a post-Brexit equivalence deal for the UK’s financial services sector if elected, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said. Reeves told TheCityUK’s national conference today that, if elected, Labour will “fix some of the holes in the patchwork Brexit deal with the EU”. The UK’s financial services sector has not [...]
Jacob Rees-Mogg admits blame in Owen Paterson saga in wake of sleaze scandal November 16, 2021 Jacob Rees-Mogg has admitted he, and not Boris Johnson, was behind the government’s attempt to protect ex-MP Owen Paterson from facing punishment for his breach of Westminster lobbying rules. The leader of the House of Commons today said “I encouraged the Prime Minister to go down this route and I was wrong, I made a [...]
Johnson says ‘internationalism failed us’ during Covid as he takes shots at EU November 15, 2021 Boris Johnson has tonight claimed “internationalism failed us” during Covid-19 as he takes shots at the EU for its reliance on Russian gas and its threats to ban vaccine exports earlier this year. The Prime Minister said at the Lord Mayor of London’s banquet in Guildhall that the UK was a “victim” of “the crazy [...]
UK government expands post-Brexit loan programme for exporters to overseas firms November 15, 2021 Overseas firms looking to set up shop and export from the UK will now be eligible to take out government-backed loans potentially worth billions of pounds, after an expansion of a post-Brexit lending programme. International trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said the new policy, done through the UK government’s credit agency UK Export Finance, will help [...]
Johnson: Get a booster jab or face Covid restrictions over winter November 15, 2021 Boris Johnson has warned that eligible people need to get their booster jabs if England is going to avoid fresh Covid restrictions over winter. Johnson today said a “new wave of Covid has steadily swept” through Europe and that “if we want to control the pandemic in the UK and avoid restrictions on our daily lives, [...]
Booster jabs to be requirement for NHS travel vaccine passports, says Johnson November 15, 2021 Booster jabs will be added to NHS vaccine passports and will be required if people want to be considered as “fully vaccinated” for international travel, according to Boris Johnson. Johnson said at a Covid press conference today that booster jabs “will make life easier for you in all sorts of ways” and that “we will [...]
Half of UK businesses have decreased or stopped trade with EU post-Brexit November 15, 2021 Almost half of British businesses that traded with the EU pre-Brexit are doing less trade with the bloc, or have stopped entirely, since the UK left the single market and customs union in January, according to a new survey. An Institute of Directors survey, commissioned by Channel 4, out today also showed 16 per cent of [...]
Boris Johnson admits fault in government response to Tory sleaze saga November 14, 2021 Boris Johnson has admitted the Owen Paterson sleaze scandal “could have been handled better … by me” as the Tories prepare to perform a humiliating parliamentary U-turn tomorrow. The Prime Minister faced a barrage of questions about why he hadn’t apologised for the saga in today’s press conference, before finally admitting some fault for the [...]
Cop26: Boris Johnson seeks to downplay failure to get deal to end coal power November 14, 2021 Boris Johnson has sought to play down the failure at Cop26 to get an agreement to end the use of coal power, saying a push from India and China to water down the final deal won’t “make much difference”. Johnson today claimed the deal agreed by 197 nations at the United Nations summit in Glasgow [...]
Boris Johnson says Modi coal stance at Cop26 will not affect UK-India trade talks November 14, 2021 Boris Johnson has said India’s push to water down the wording on coal in the final Cop26 summit deal will not affect UK trade negotiations with the Commonwealth country. Johnson said at a press conference today that “I don’t think there’s any need in particular to introduce this into our bilateral relations”, after Cop26 president [...]
