The M20 could be turned into a giant lorry park under proposals slipped out in a written parliamentary statement on “road haulage”. With customs delayed expected following Britain's exit from the European Union ministers are putting together contingency plans for delays and stoppages of cargo into and from the continent. ...
The UK's public purse will be £615 million lighter a week under the government's preferred Brexit scenario, King's College research has revealed. A far cry from the promised £350 million windfall that the Leave campaign promised, new analysis has revealed that even if the government gets its preferred option of a “bespoke ...
@BenGelblum The House of Commons Exiting the European Union Committee has published the Whitehall Brexit impact analyses that the Government did not want you to see. Brexit Minister David Davis fought tooth and nail to keep the assessments of the possible impacts of Brexit on the economy confidential, insisting they ...
The Brexit vote has been likened to "turkeys voting for Christmas" after it was revealed the hardest hit areas were the ones most likely to vote for it. A leaked government study detailing economic forecasts of how regions will fare over the next 15 years revealed most regions will be ...
Every region of the UK is set to become poorer whichever Brexit scenario occurs according to the Government’s own figures it has emerged. As the Government finally caved into MP’s demands to see the official impact assessment report kept hidden from the public but leaked to Buzzfeed last week, it ...
GMB, the union for NHS staff, has praised North Bristol NHS Trust’s decision to keep non clinical services in house. The trust decided not to establish a subsidiary company to run non-clinical services at NBT, after prolonged challenge from union. The move means that all facilities services will remain within ...
The political motives for an exit from the single market were laid bare today after it was revealed that a prominent Brexiteer is also a major shareholder of an emerging markets investment firm. Jacob Rees-Mogg is a long-term backer of investment management firm Somerset Capital, which has "9.6 billion dollars" ...
By Robert Seiler Influential Bulgarian businessman Petar Hristov, who had assisted with the dismantling of a kidnapping ring and who was closely tied to senior members of Bulgaria’s ruling GERB party, was shot in broad daylight on the 8th of January in an upmarket area of Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. This fatal shooting, coming six days ...
The EU referendum and the question of whether we sever ties from union with our neighbouring countries has divided both politics and households. Nothing could persuade many die-hard Europhiles that remaining in the EU might be a better option for the UK. Britain Thinks found 37 per cent of Leave voters are ...