Starmer: Johnson starts Brexit brawls to distract from Tory scandals
The Labour leader said Johnson starts fights with Brussels to distract from scandals like the Owen Paterson affair.
The Labour leader said Johnson starts fights with Brussels to distract from scandals like the Owen Paterson affair.
It is the second double-decker bus to be torched in the past week, amid protests against the Northern Ireland protocol.
Johnson's much-trumpeted FTAs “barely scratch the surface of the UK’s challenge to make up the GDP lost by leaving the EU”.
Farage’s party failed to win a single seat in December 2019, which is consistent with his own seven attempts at becoming an MP.
Major said the dangerous move would be "silly politics" to placate "extreme Brexiteers".
British companies have filled in 48 million customs declarations and 140,000 export health certificates since Britain left the EU.
He left the German embassy in London with some gummy bears and a badge showing the British and German flags, determined to pick a German football team.
Earlier this week, a bus was burnt out in Newtownards in an attack politicians linked to loyalist opposition to the protocol.
Pointing to a French fishing boat on the horizon, he said: “What infuriates me the most is… for me to sell my stuff into Europe I’ve got to fill out 10 bits of paper.
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