Brexit – UK risks becoming ‘a disaster area with rocket boosters on’ says logistics industry

The UK’s logistics industry has criticised the government’s lack of border planning for Brexit, saying the UK is “sleepwalking into a disaster” when the transition period ends on December 31. Eight logistics organisations have written to Michael Gove to raise their concerns about the lack of customs agents, IT systems and physical infrastructure being built […]

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Dominic’s comings and goings ‘beggars belief’ – ministers rally to support PM’s SPAD

Ministers have rallied to support the prime minister’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings as “devastating new claims” emerge about a further breach of the lockdown rules. Boris Johnson’s special advisor (SPAD) has been under fire since news broke last night that Cummings drove 264 miles from London to his parents’ Durham property with his wife and […]

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 ‘Significant opposition’ to UK govt’s ‘extreme’ position on Brexit extension as deadline looms

MPs have written to the EU to highlight the “significant opposition to the UK Government’s extreme position” in the Brexit talks, with the deadline for seeking an extension to the transition period rapidly approaching. The letter to the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier, from a coalition of MPs from around the UK said an extension […]

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