Tag: Brexit

Despite not seeming keen to cut VAT as per the Leave campaign promise, he took the opportunity to say this week that leaving the EU means the UK can now set its own VAT rates.

“Making Brexit work is painstaking work, and slogans won't cut it," the Labour leader said.

Even the "most ardent Brexiteers are beginning to reluctantly concede that life outside the EU has yet to live up to its billing".

“Looking forward to Frost ‘getting Covid done’ and then resigning from the group,” a Lib Dem Councillor has said.

“What worries me is the casual political vandalism. They really don’t seem to care," Tony Blair's former chief negotiator on Northern Ireland has said.

Despite prime minister Boris Johnson promising in March last year to solve the bureaucratic issues facing musicians, only one European country has signed an agreement since.

Unite's national officer for steel said the government needed to explain why the EU had a deal but the UK did not.

The 'Up Yours Delors' headline from the Sun was more subtle.

“This is what taking back control of our borders means", Philip Rycroft said.