Read in full: Government summary of Christmas Eve’s historic Brexit agreement with the EU

Read in full: Government summary of Christmas Eve’s historic Brexit agreement with the EU The Prime Minister’s Office last night published a summary of UK-EU trade deal The deal was announced yesterday after four years of tough Brexit negotiations Deal will be scrutinised and put through Parliamentary stages next Wednesday  By James Robinson for MailOnline … Read more

Read in full: Government summary of Christmas Eve’s historic Brexit agreement with the EU

Read in full: Government summary of Christmas Eve’s historic Brexit agreement with the EU The Prime Minister’s Office last night published a summary of UK-EU trade deal The deal was announced yesterday after four years of tough Brexit negotiations Deal will be scrutinised and put through Parliamentary stages next Wednesday  By James Robinson for MailOnline … Read more

How the Brexit deal was done: Explosive negotiations worthy of Netflix got agreement over the line

Last minute mathematics bungles, using the Les Miserables soundtrack as a rallying cry and explosive negotiations worthy of being streamed on Netflix all managed to get a Brexit deal over the line.    Four-and-a-half years after Brits voted to leave the EU, Boris Johnson yesterday announced that a trade deal had finally been agreed. The Prime … Read more

How the Brexit deal was done: Explosive negotiations worthy of Netflix got agreement over the line

Last minute mathematics bungles, using the Les Miserables soundtrack as a rallying cry and explosive negotiations worthy of being streamed on Netflix all managed to get a Brexit deal over the line.    Four-and-a-half years after Brits voted to leave the EU, Boris Johnson yesterday announced that a trade deal had finally been agreed. The Prime … Read more

Chancellor Rishi Sunak quit London 24 hours before Tier 4 travel ban

Chancellor Rishi Sunak quit London 24 hours ahead of capital’s Tier 4 travel ban to spend Christmas in his Richmond constituency Chancellor swapped Downing Street for North Yorkshire last Friday afternoon  The next day Boris Johnson introduced Tier 4 with travel ban on the capital  On Monday Labour demanded a public statement on economic support By David … Read more

French firemen join fight to ease backlog of 6,000 lorries at Dover today

French firefighters armed with 10,000 testing kits have today joined the battle to help thousands of stranded lorry drivers across the Channel – with up to 6,000 lorries now stacked up in Kent. A group of 26 firefighters from the continent have joined the UK’s testing effort, personally administering the swabs to lorry drivers after … Read more

Border force on standby as they prepare to turn back visitors from South Africa

What are the rules of the new South Africa travel ban?  From 9am today, visitors arriving into England who have been in or travelled through South Africa in the previous 10 days will not be permitted entry and direct flights will be banned. British and Irish Nationals, visa holders and permanent residents arriving from South … Read more

Polish lorry driver’s heartbreak as he faces spending festive season stuck in his cab in Kent 

A Polish lorry driver told tonight how he had to make the heartbreaking call to his pregnant wife and daughters telling them he was unlikely to make it home for Christmas, and would instead be spending it in his cab stuck on the A20 in Dover. Wojtek Golawski is one of thousands of truckers stranded … Read more

Fears over mutant strain’s spread among children puts January return in doubt

Schools could be closed for all of January amid fears that the mutant coronavirus strain spreads more easily among children. With cases surging in many parts of the country, Downing Street sources admitted yesterday that it was ‘too early’ to guarantee all pupils would be back in their classrooms by January 11. Officials told the … Read more

Fears over mutant strain’s spread among children puts January return in doubt

Schools could be closed for all of January amid fears that the mutant coronavirus strain spreads more easily among children. With cases surging in many parts of the country, Downing Street sources admitted yesterday that it was ‘too early’ to guarantee all pupils would be back in their classrooms by January 11. Officials told the … Read more