Tonight Britain will leave the European Union for good, as the demands of the 2016 referendum are finally met. Ever since that historic result, there have been four and a half years of relentlessly bitter rancour between opposing sides, and in the process reputations were made and lost. So, more than 1,600 days after the … Read more
MPs voted by 521 to 73 – majority 448 – to approve legislation to ratify Boris Johnson’s trade deal with the EU. But how did MPs vote at third reading? – Ayes 359 Conservative MPs: Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty), Bim Afolami (Hitchin and Harpenden), Adam Afriyie (Windsor), Imran Ahmad Khan (Wakefield), Nickie Aiken (Cities … Read more
The London stock market soared by more than 2 per cent today as investors gave a thumbs-up to Britain’s post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union. The FTSE 100 was up by 2.23 per cent or 145 points to 6,647 this morning, in its first day of trading since the dramatic agreement was reached on … Read more
Tesco’s chairman has predicted that any changes to food prices after Brexit will be ‘very modest indeed’ due to the future EU trade terms sealed by Boris Johnson this week. John Allan said that any increase caused by the UK’s departure from the European Union would be ‘hardly felt in terms of the prices that … Read more
Brexit deal and Covid vaccines ‘to deliver £145billion boost to London stock markets’ Businesses have greeted Boris Johnson’s agreement with the EU with relief The deal was a ‘double dose of good news’ for the country along with vaccines Analysts had been predicting a crash in shares if a No Deal had happened By Mail … Read more
Erasmus scheme’s £100million replacement: Government pledges to ‘expand opportunities to study abroad’ after program was scrapped as part of Brexit deal Turing scheme will provide funding for around 35,000 students to go abroad Decision to end involvement in the Erasmus scheme has proved controversial Nicola Sturgeon described the decision to leave Erasmus as ‘cultural vandalism’ … Read more
A Tory MP has demanded more details on what the Brexit trade deal means for Northern Ireland with the country still in the single market and subject to EU rules. John Redwood urged Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove to flesh out further details on the agreement relating to the province this morning. Britain today published the … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Resilient City can bounce back yet again despite being left to sink or swim in Brexit deal By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 23:24 GMT, 25 December 2020 | Updated: 23:30 GMT, 25 December 2020 Britain’s status as the world’s fifth-largest economy will remain intact next year in spite of the … Read more
UK economy set to storm ahead of France after Brexit transition and ‘will be 23% bigger than theirs by 2035’ UK will retain its status as world’s fifth biggest economy in 2021, experts predict Britain will also remain close to the top of global growth tables up until 2035 British economy on course to be … Read more
‘To make an end is to make a beginning’: How Ursula von der Leyen quoted Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot to strike a sombre tone at EU press conference announcing Brexit deal European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen sounded despondent She quoted William Shakespeare, The Beatles and poet TS Eliot in her speech Her sombre … Read more