SNP MPs said they will vote against Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal when it comes before the Commons on Wednesday. Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the agreement was a ‘disaster for Scotland’ and an an ‘unforgiveable act of economic vandalism and gross stupidity’. SNP leader and Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already accused the Conservatives of … Read more
Boris Johnson vows to focus on ‘levelling-up’ Britain and ‘spreading opportunity’ after securing post-Brexit trade deal with EU Boris Johnson said he hopes to make use of the new freedoms afforded by Brexit The Prime Minister said he wants to ‘deliver for people who felt left behind’ But he acknowledged his deal did not completely … Read more
Boris Johnson vows to focus on ‘levelling-up’ Britain and ‘spreading opportunity’ after securing post-Brexit trade deal with EU Boris Johnson said he hopes to make use of the new freedoms afforded by Brexit The Prime Minister said he wants to ‘deliver for people who felt left behind’ But he acknowledged his deal did not completely … Read more
Rishi Sunak has congratulated Boris Johnson on securing the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU in what he hailed an ‘enormously unifying moment for our country’. The Chancellor, who was accused of being ‘absent’ in the run up to Christmas, said the agreement was a good deal for British families, businesses and jobs. He also addressed … Read more
The war is over. As 2021 dawns, the most dramatic political conflict of our lifetime will draw to a close. This issue, which has broken prime ministerial careers and divided families, will no longer dominate our lives in the same way. While the precise terms of our leaving may continue to be finessed for some … Read more
You look as fresh as a daisy for someone who’s spent the night counting fish,’ Boris Johnson joked to Ursula von der Leyen as he began the tele-conference that finally brought Britain’s Brexit purgatory to an end. The Prime Minister’s ability to strike up an unlikely rapport with the daughter of one of the EU’s … Read more
Besieged by friend and foe, Boris Johnson had been facing a nightmare Christmas. His doom-laden critics were delightedly forecasting a disastrous No Deal Brexit, record deaths from Covid and the inevitability that he would have to break his promise of giving families five days of relief over Christmas from pandemic restrictions. Indeed, for those who, … Read more
You look as fresh as a daisy for someone who’s spent the night counting fish,’ Boris Johnson joked to Ursula von der Leyen as he began the tele-conference that finally brought Britain’s Brexit purgatory to an end. The Prime Minister’s ability to strike up an unlikely rapport with the daughter of one of the EU’s … Read more
City veterans and business leaders have cautiously welcomed the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal, but warned a similar deal for the City is now ‘urgent’. The trade deal, announced on Christmas Eve and with details still being raked over, follows four years of negotiation with the European Union. Before the stock market closed at lunchtime on … Read more
Besieged by friend and foe, Boris Johnson had been facing a nightmare Christmas. His doom-laden critics were delightedly forecasting a disastrous No Deal Brexit, record deaths from Covid and the inevitability that he would have to break his promise of giving families five days of relief over Christmas from pandemic restrictions. Indeed, for those who, … Read more