Politics
UK a ‘long, long, long way’ from lockdown being lifted, Hancock warns
“You can see the pressure on the NHS – you can see it every day," Hancock said.
Most UK voters think Scotland will be independent within ten years
New polling also revealed that more than half of those in Northern Ireland want a referendum on a united Ireland in the next five years.
Ex-Obama aide labels Boris a ‘pampered blow hard’ over Churchill bust row
Tommy Vietor, a former aide to Barack Obama, tweeted that "right-wing British tabloids" are "like the most insecure people alive" over the row.
Welsh Tory leader resigns over Senedd drinking debacle
Paul Davies said the controversy had become a “distraction” and that he is standing down with “immediate effect”.
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."
Post-Brexit shoppers forced to pay a third extra to bag EU goods
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.
‘We warned about that last year’ – Northern Ireland protocol problems ‘foreseeable’
“The Prime Minister promised us that there would not be any difficulties, but given the protocol and all the difficulties we have seen on the ground it was very clear that this was going to happen – it was all foreseen.”
Fishing industry could be ‘destroyed’ without customs changes, MPs warn
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”.
‘Ghastly stuff’ – Rees-Mogg offends SNP, ‘Woke’ people and Teeside
Even by his standards it was a busy day of offending people.