Grants given through the government’s Shared Prosperity Fund were supposed to match EU cash previously handed out to UK regions for development. In reality, the north is £1.65 billion down.
Regarding Covid he said: “I am very happy that free Britain, or at least merry England, is probably now the freest country in the world as regards Covid restrictions. No mask rules, no vaccine passports. Long may it remain so."
"I almost cried when you guys left. I just thought it was so bad for Britain’s interests, and frankly the liberal democratic order’s interests across the world.”
“It wasn’t Johnson’s arrival in Downing Street that introduced the poison into our system, even if he significantly increased the dose. It was Brexit.”
British companies are moving their European bases to Belgium to manage the challenges posed by Brexit and are now trading with the EU from there.
"The problem for the government is that you cannot simply pull up the drawbridge. Controlling the country's borders requires international agreement and co-operation."
"Especially the type as the UK has proposed it, negotiated it, and signed the agreement up on it with us.”
“This isn’t a question for France and the British, but a question of respecting your word," he also said.
“JCB’s failure to conduct proper human rights due diligence on the end use of its products represents a failure to respect human rights,”