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. ...
Mark Carney, governor of the bank of England has indicated that Brexit has already hit the UK economy and it hasn’t even happened yet. Carney said that Brexit has taken two per cent off the size of the economy in the UK and has left each household £900 worse off. ...
We were trying to steer clear of the whole boring gammon controversy: whether it is racist to call the roaring pulmoan-ary purple-faced middle aged men bellowing stuff like “just-get-on-with-it” about Brexit on Question Time gammon-coloured or not. Especially when Kathy Burke nailed it: But then Matthew Hankins just wrote this ...
As the date to leave the EU comes ever closer another company is jumping ship before Brexit actually begins. This time it is Thomson Reuters who have said they will shift their foreign exchange derivatives trading to Ireland. The outfit will relocate to Dublin so they can continue to do ...
Calls for House of Lords reform have resurfaced this week after the government suffered another Brexit set back in the upper house. The Daily Mail, which staunchly backed Britain's exit from the European Union, said it is "time to pull the plug on the Lords" on its front page and ...
"Being a Remainer and voting Labour is like being a vegetarian and ordering steak", was the meme making the rounds on social media before yesterday's local elections. And so it proved to be as the first results trickled in this morning. With UKIP all but obliterated across the country Labour ...
Robert Peston has described a £300 billion negative swing in foreign investment as "jaw-dropping" after new figures revealed FDI has dropped off a cliff since the Brexit vote. Global FDI flows reached their lowest level since 2013 in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to OECD figures. Inflows to the ...
In a keynote address at the CBI Northern Ireland Annual Dinner on Thursday, CBI Director-General, Carolyn Fairbairn, will reflect the deep concern about political uncertainty and Brexit shared by businesses and communities across Northern Ireland. 20 years on from the Good Friday agreement, politicians from Northern Ireland, Britain and the ...
The government has launched a recruitment drive for nurses in the Caribbean despite ongoing concerns over the treatment of the Windrush generation. Nurses from Jamaica are to be targeted as potential recruits for the health service, the government has revealed, in its latest move to try and help mitigate the ...