The UK car industry has weathered several storms in recent years, with Brexit uncertainty causing significant difficulties, and Covid-19 closing dealerships and factories. But with a free-trade agreement with the EU now in place for cars, and the UK’s vaccine rollout well under way, things – while some way off being ‘normal’ – are more […]
LONDON (Reuters) -Ireland is increasingly concerned that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to completely rewrite the Northern Ireland section of the Brexit deal, RTE reported on Monday after London said the agreement was not sustainable.
The UK is continuing to dump waste on other countries with supermarket packaging and plastic bags found as far away as Turkey, according to a report.
Limits on international leisure travel should continue even after 17 May, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.
And at the same time, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is arguing in favour of EU Treaty change in a move which would have dire consequences for national sovereignty, said Pieter Cleppe, a research fellow with the Brussels-based Property Rights Alliance. Mr Cleppe outlines his concerns in a new paper published on the think tank’s website this week in […]
Britain will experience a third wave of Covid-19 this summer as lockdown is relaxed, a leading scientist advising the government has warned.
The number of UK workers on payrolls dropped by 56,000 last month and has fallen by 813,000 since March 2020 due to the impact of the pandemic, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
There’s not been any indication the Bank Rate would go negative, however financial experts have speculated about the possibility following the coronavirus pandemic. In August last year, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said there were not any plans to deploy negative interest rates in the coming months.
The UK has made an offer of safe haven to Myanmar’s former ambassador who was ousted when junta loyalists barred him from the embassy in London.
Boris Johnson is poised to announce some Easter Monday good news, with home and away lockdown-easing moves as part of his COVID roadmap to freedom.
