Shapps echoes Sunak saying Christmas gifts will be available October 16, 2021 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has echoed Chancellor Rishi Sunak and said that Christmas gifts will be available despite the backlogs witnessed at UK ports. “People will be able to get things for Christmas,” he told Sky News. “When I talk to the ports they said it is a busy picture, but if you compared us [...]
Shapps echoes Sunak saying Christmas gifts will be available – CityAM : CityAM October 16, 2021 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has echoed Chancellor Rishi Sunak and said that Christmas gifts will be available despite the backlogs witnessed at UK ports. “People will be able to get things for Christmas,” he told Sky News. “When I talk to the ports they said it is a busy picture, but if you compared us [...]
UK supply chain crisis worse because of Brexit says French politician October 15, 2021 French finance minister Bruno Le Maire has said the UK’s supply chain issues are worse because Brexit cut off its access to the single market. “We are facing the same situation,” said Le Maire, confirming that France is also being hit by supply chain woes in comments to the BBC at a meeting of the G7. [...]
Exclusive: Most investors believe Brexit will make UK more attractive place to do business October 15, 2021 More than half of all investors from the UK, US and Germany believe Brexit, and the need therefore for the UK to secure new trade deals and support businesses, will make the overall business environment in the country more attractive over the next three years. Only one in five (22 per cent) expect it to [...]
Irritated Queen about COP26 in Glasgow: ‘I still don’t know who is coming’ October 15, 2021 The Queen has appeared to suggest she is irritated by a lack of action in tackling the climate crisis, and the monarch still has no clue who will attend the upcoming COP26 conference in Glasgow. Her remarks emerged in clips of a conversation filmed on a phone camera during a trip to Cardiff for the [...]
Brexit: Frost to discuss Northern Ireland Protocol proposals on Friday with EU October 14, 2021 Defacto Brexit minister Lord David Frost will meet with his EU counterpart tomorrow in a bid to bridge the “substantial gap” between the UK and EU on the Northern Ireland Protocol, the British government has said tonight. A UK government spokesperson said the EU’s new proposals on how to implement the protocol were proof of [...]
Post-Brexit accounting body to face first major test over insurance sector October 14, 2021 The UK Endorsement Board, which oversees accounting rules, is preparing to come to heads with insurers in the first major test of the new body, according to reports. The UK Endorsement Board (UKEB) was formed in direct response to Britain’s exit from the European Union, which forced the country to manage and endorse international accounting [...]
Exclusive: UK set to keep EU cap on bankers’ bonuses post-Brexit October 14, 2021 The UK is set to keep the EU’s cap on bankers’ bonuses, with the Treasury instead focussed on a range of other measures to shake up financial services regulation post-Brexit. Treasury sources say the measure is not even being discussed by chancellor Rishi Sunak and that it will not be scrapped any time soon. The [...]
Government ‘considering change of heart on temporary visas for butchers’ October 14, 2021 Ministers are reportedly considering backtracking and extending temporary visas to overseas butchers, as abattoirs were forced to cull livestock after shortages. Pig farmers have been forced to kill healthy livestock because of a lack of butchers in abattoirs, seemingly forcing ministers to change their stance on intervention. The National Pig Association told The Guardian that [...]
Galactic Britain: UK space companies win big at Deloitte competition October 14, 2021 British tech companies took home four out of nine awards at Deloitte’s GRAVITY challenge competition in a sign the space sector is thriving post-Brexit. UK companies including Helyx, Little Place Labs, Seanasol Consortium and Treeconomy, three of which are London-based firms, proposed winning solutions to challenges posed by global brands addressing key industrial, social and environmental [...]