Leave-voting fish merchant says Brexit is ‘absolute nightmare’ as industry is ‘destroyed’
“It’s just been an absolute nightmare,” Ian Perkes told BylineTV. “If I could turn the clock back, would I have voted Leave? Of course not."
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“It’s just been an absolute nightmare,” Ian Perkes told BylineTV. “If I could turn the clock back, would I have voted Leave? Of course not."
Delivery company DPD reportedly asked one shopper to cough up £77 in tax and extra charges to release £245 of clothes purchased from a French website.
SNP MP Stuart McDonald told George Eustice, the environment secretary, that Scottish seafood companies were concerned they were “going out of business” with their produce “sitting in lorry parks in Kent waiting for customs clearance”.
"Biden commits to strengthening alliances and we engage in silly spats. We are better than this.”
Billionaire Lord Ashcroft last year gave £175,000 to the Tories and their London mayoral candidate.
Andrew Mills - who served an adviser to the Board of Trade, chaired by Liz Truss - changed his company's status to avoid filing accounts.
“This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day in history and hope, of renewal and resolve," Biden said.
“Through Brexit alone, we’ve lost them as customers. We physically can’t send oysters to them anymore because of the costs involved with that paperwork. It’s so impactful on what we do.”
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A further 1,610 people in the United Kingdom have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.
The 60-year-old host of The Grand Tour went on to suggest that families should be grateful that they’re not receiving “half an ounce of mould and a dead dog”.
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A top-ranking civil servant at the Department of Health and Social Care told MPs that 900 of the firm’s consultants were employed - at a rate of £1,000 per day.
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervened and noted: “Obviously there’s no overwhelming evidence for that.”
Charlie Mullins, Pimlico’s founder, revealed that the company’s lawyers are drafting new employment contracts for its 400 employees - which will include the controversial vaccine requirement.
MPs have urged the Government to establish a compensation scheme for health and social care staff and key workers.
She did not receive the result she was expecting.
The price spike comes amid warnings from hauliers that delays at Calais and other French ports are set to deteriorate further.
Oldham Council and local GPs decided the town’s homeless people should be made a priority group to get the vaccine at the start of the rollout.
“It’s like we’re the pioneers of this new luxury travel vaccine programme," the group's founder boasted.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said his “hunch” is that vaccines will not be “outwitted” by new variants for many months.
Lisa Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead after receiving a lethal injection at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The packages - which supposedly are worth £30 - have been described as "degrading", with one mother accusing the Government programme of treating disadvantaged families "like dirt".
A mysterious website change - quickly followed by a U-turn - has raised suspicions.
“It is truly horrific," Raab said. "Barbarism we had hoped lost to another era, being practiced today".
There were nearly 697,000 deaths in the UK in 2020 - almost 91,000 more than expected.
Researchers have warned that educational inequalities are likely to increase due to school closures.
Karl Turner, MP for Hull East, said the delay was the “last nail in the coffin” for the industry.
The PM's own guidance instructs Brits to “not travel outside your local area” for exercise.
The Chancellor's spokesman suggested it was not up to social media companies to decide which opinions are valid.
The Wildlife Trusts said neonicotinoids pose a significant environmental risk, particularly to bees.
The lack of widely-available, reliable broadband has been made more acute by the Covid-19 crisis – with many children struggling to access remote learning as a result of the so-called “digital divide”.
The prime minister has asked civil servants to scrap references to the EU from tens of thousands of laws in a bid to stop Labour reversing Brexit after the next election.
Hutchinson, from south London, was pictured carrying a far-right demonstrator to safety when protests became violent in June.
Amazon took action after finding dozens of posts on the service which it said encouraged or incited violence, just days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol.
The New York Daily News reported that some of the mob which attacked the Capitol had defecated and trailed it through the building.
President Donald Trump has announced that he will not attend the swearing-in of Joe Biden on 20 January.
Close to £100 million has been given to a firm co-founded by a wealthy Tory donor.
The Moderna vaccine will not be available for use straight away, with the first doses not expected to arrive until the spring.
Sweden this week put forward an emergency law that paves the way for ministers to lock down large portions of society - a far cry from its famed ‘light touch'.
Many have pointed to one of the core pledges of Labour’s election manifesto in 2019 - free broadband for all - as an answer to the problem.
The Justice Department added that it had not ruled out prosecuting Trump himself.
Industry figures have warned that exports could grind to a halt in coming days.
In a message on its website, it said “we are currently unable to deliver orders to the Republic of Ireland, due to uncertainty around post-Brexit trade rules”.
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