EU ramps up tensions on Northern Ireland as it formally launches legal action over UK’s decision to suspend parts of Brexit protocol By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 14:12 GMT, 15 March 2021 | Updated: 14:36 GMT, 15 March 2021 The EU ramped up the row over Northern Ireland today as it formally … Read more
Boris Johnson is in Northern Ireland today amid a furious row over the impact of Brexit on the country. The Prime minister was told to to ‘stand up for Northern Ireland’ and ditch the ‘intolerable’ Protocol governing Irish Sea trade post-Brexit by DUP leader Arlene Foster. Extra checks on goods passing through Northern Ireland’s ports from … Read more
Boris Johnson is in Northern Ireland today amid a furious row over the impact of Brexit on the country. The Prime minister was told to to ‘stand up for Northern Ireland’ and ditch the ‘intolerable’ Protocol governing Irish Sea trade post-Brexit by DUP leader Arlene Foster. Extra checks on goods passing through Northern Ireland’s ports from … Read more
Boris Johnson‘s plan to build a bridge or a tunnel connecting Northern Ireland and Scotland has been slammed by critics as a ‘fantasy’. The Prime Minister has launched an official review to look at how to improve Union transport connectivity, with a fixed Irish Sea link the headline proposal. The PM has allocated £20million to … Read more
Stop sulking! Lord Frost swipes that EU is fuelling Northern Ireland row because it is still bitter about Brexit Lord Frost suggested link between NI row and ‘ill-will’ over UK leaving the EU Cabinet Office minister defended UK’s unilateral extension of grace periods Fears rising about sectarian tensions in the province caused by the protocol … Read more
Ministers have accused the EU of stoking the row over the Northern Ireland protocol because they are jealous of the UK’s vaccine rollout. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng linked the increasingly bitter row over the Brexit divorce terms to the contrasting performance on jabs. He suggested that European politicians were ‘playing politics’ to distract attention from … Read more
The EU has accused the UK of ‘violating’ the terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol and threatened Downing Street with legal action in an increasingly bitter row over post-Brexit border checks. The UK Government yesterday announced it had unilaterally decided to extend a grace period that has been limiting the amount of red tape on … Read more
US hedge fund snaps up £5bn of home loans: Northern Rock and B&B stake finally sold by UK government By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:53 GMT, 26 February 2021 | Updated: 21:53 GMT, 26 February 2021 Britain’s ‘bad bank’ created in the aftermath of the financial crisis has finally sold its remaining … Read more
Arlene Foster holds talks with loyalist paramilitary representatives over Northern Ireland protocol as Tories demand it is scrapped and warn it has had a ‘profound and negative effect’ amid wrangling with the EU DUP leader Arlene Foster met representative group for loyalist paramilitaries Loyalists are angry over new post-Brexit checks on goods arriving at NI … Read more
Unflappable Colin Pidgeon calmly responds as his cat delivers a live pigeon into his home while he addresses Northern Irish politicians via Zoom Colin Pidgeon interrupted by pigeon while on call to Northern Ireland Assembly The researcher was providing evidence to the Assembly’s Finance Committee He was forced to stop after catching a pigeon his cat had … Read more