Brexit is ‘the real reason’ Patel was barred from France
It goes to she how bad Anglo-French relations have become – and how weak the UK is, the Independent's Sean O'Grady says.
It goes to she how bad Anglo-French relations have become – and how weak the UK is, the Independent's Sean O'Grady says.
It comes after the UK's refusal to give them work licences which they say they are owed under the Brexit deal.
Chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz said Berlin would back "countermeasures" if the UK reneges on the Brexit deal.
“Clotted cream from Cornwall, Cornish pasties, Cumberland sausage, Welsh lamb and beef, Stilton and Cheddar cheeses - all of which the Prime Minister and Liz Truss were fond to cite - are no longer protected for our trade."
Although net migration from the EU was negative last year, with 94,000 more EU nationals leaving Britain than arriving, this is not the case with non-EU migration.
The peers’ reports found laws were passed without due scrutiny, allowing the government to hold more power than they would under the normal legal process.
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.”
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