Pandemic plans stalled due to no-deal Brexit preparations – Welsh medical chief
Sir Frank Atherton told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that planning for potential future health emergencies had all but stopped by 2019.
Sir Frank Atherton told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that planning for potential future health emergencies had all but stopped by 2019.
“We’re making preparations,” deputy premier Leo Varadkar said as UK prepares to trigger Article 16.
"It is looking increasingly likely that the UK will be leaving on Australian terms," a source said.
“If we have a bad Brexit, and we see some really draconian tariffs imposed on us, from what we would say is a man-made situation, we would find that fairly intolerable and fairly unacceptable moving forwards."
“Boris Johnson’s decision to end the Brexit transition period in the middle of a pandemic and deep recession is an unforgivable act of economic sabotage."
"The Daily Mail/ Mail on Sunday are acting like a drunk, ranting hooligan at the bus stop who just hurls mindless abuse at people they don’t like."
Deputy chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) Dr David Wrigley raised concerns that some medicines with short shelf lives such as insulin cannot be stockpiled.
"Covid is horrendous – but it is temporary, Brexit is not."
One bank moved around 200 billion euros (£184 billion) of assets from London to Frankfurt.
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