11th Feb 2019 https://nfind.uk/brexit_cliff_edge/index.php/newsletter=1 brexit_cliff_edge

Jobs at Risk

The Guardian The Dutch government has said it is in talks with more than 250 companies about moving their operations from the UK to the Netherlands before Brexit. The economic affairs ministry said it had lured 42 companies or branch offices and 1923 jobs from the UK last year as it increases its efforts to gain Brexit business. Among those who have chosen to invest in the Netherlands are the Discovery Channel Sony and Bloomberg. Sony announced last month it was moving its European headquarters to Amsterdam as companies in the UK continue to progress with contingency plans. Its rival Panasonic has already moved to the Dutch capital. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/09/brexit-uk-companies-discuss-moving-to-netherlands 9th Feb 2019

Jobs at Risk

The Times Conservative Party chiefs have signed off a cutprice campaign for the European parliamentary elections after finally admitting that the polls will go ahead two weeks tomorrow. Candidates received a confidential briefing at Conservative campaign headquarters CCHQ on what many admit will be a damagelimitation exercise. Party chiefs are said to be sending only taxpayerfunded mailshots with the first wave of literature targeting postal voters due within days. The Conservatives message will be that only the governing party can deliver Brexit as it pleads with voters not to back Nigel Farages insurgent Brexit Party according to a senior figure. The first leaflet includes a photograph of Theresa May. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dbec5148-710a-11e9-a5e9-48f686bb2833 8th May 2019

Jobs at Risk

The Mainichi As the confusion over Brexit becomes increasingly drawn out a major brain drain is occurring across various fields in the United Kingdom and academia is no exception. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190129/p2a/00m/0in/041000c 29th Jan 2019

Economic Impact

Bloomberg L.P. Britains status as European hub of choice has suffered a blow. Japanese electronics groups Sony Corp and Panasonic Corp insurer Chubb Ltd. and moneyexchange firm TransferWise are among the companies who have moved their EU headquarters or set up new subsidiaries. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-30/the-brexit-bill-here-s-the-damage-so-far 10th Feb 2019

Economic Impact

BBC The Bank of England found that business investment has slowed sharply and reckons it will fall by even more this year. Companies are unwilling to flash the cash until they are confident about what lies ahead. Thats not just down to a lack of clarity over Brexit but a result too of weaker demand from elsewhere as the likes of China and Europe slow down. As a result the Bank now calculates the total level of GDP is about 1.2 lower than it had expected three years ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47168866 10th Feb 2019

Economic Impact

Bloomberg While U.S. banks want Britain to maintain the closest possible ties with the EU after Brexit U.K. banks and insurers are anxious they dont become beholden to new laws made by Brussels two of the people said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-10/british-and-u-s-banks-said-to-be-deeply-divided-on-brexit-ties 10th Feb 2019

Economic Impact

Forbes Disappointing news for startup and scaleup Britain investors appetite for funding growing businesses appears to be waning. New research suggests there was a marked dropoff in investment in such businesses last year. Beauhurst the research analyst that specialises in emerging growth companies says equity investors pumped 7bn into startup and scaleup businesses last year down almost 19 per cent on 2017. Deal numbers were significantly lower too Beauhurst tracked 1572 transactions during 2018 a near 10 per cent fall on 2017s figure of 1744. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidprosser/2019/02/05/blow-for-uk-growth-businesses-as-brexit-hits-fundraising/#122508a44964 5th Feb 2019

Economic Impact

Bloomberg The impact of Brexit on Londons financial sector came into stark relief as a judge approved plans by a UBS Group AG unit to shift some of its U.K. business involving assets valued at more than 32 billion euros 36.5 billion to Germany. The Swiss banks plans are a response to the external shock of Britains exit from the European Union not designed for commercial advantage or based on any internal rationalization said Judge Alastair Norris in London who approved the proposal Tuesday. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-05/ubs-says-brexit-has-forced-transfer-of-some-u-k-operations 5th Feb 2019

Economic Impact

Homes and Property The property market suffered one of its biggest monthly falls since the financial crisis last month as uncertainly over Brexit undermined buyers confidence. The average price of a home across the country slumped 2.9 per cent to 223691 in January wiping almost 7000 of its value according to latest figures from mortgage lender Halifax. The fall brought the annual rate of house price inflation down to just 0.8 per cent. https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/house-prices-in-brexit-slump-nearly-7000-knocked-off-price-of-average-uk-home-as-uncertainty-a127811.html 7th Feb 2019

Administrative Fall Out

@LisaNandy This Stronger Towns announcment just keeps getting worse. Government now seems to be saying its spread over 7 years amounting to just 40m a year for ALL the North Wests towns. To put it in context in Wigan alone weve had cuts of 134m since 2010 with more in the pipeline https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1102511815681036288 4th Mar 2019

Administrative Fall Out

TechRegister.co.uk https://www.techregister.co.uk/brexit-hit-spanish-nurses-deepen-nhs-staffing-crisis/ 10th Feb 2019

Administrative Fall Out

Politics Home Ever since she railed against George Osbornes welfare cuts Heidi Allens relationship with the Conservatives looked fragile. After months of feeling disillusioned with her adopted party she helped to form The Independent Group. Now interim leader of the rebranded Change UK the South Cambridgeshire MP is hopeful for success at the European elections but says Brexit cannot be everything that her partys about. She talks to Sebastian Whale https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/house/house-magazine/103461/heidi-allen-%E2%80%9C-fact-people-are-trying-pick 26th Apr 2019

Administrative Fall Out

Motor Transport https://motortransport.co.uk/blog/2019/02/08/work-on-m20-brexit-preparations-to-commence-this-weekend/ 8th Feb 2019

Administrative Fall Out

Kent Online Highways chiefs say are using lessons learned from Operation Stack to prepare for a nodeal Brexit. Work on installing the temporary steel Brexit barriers along the coastbound carriageway of the M20 begins this weekend which will lead to the introduction of a 50mph speed limit along an eightmile stretch. Planners have revealed more details about the timings of the works saying the barriers will let lorries travelling to Europe flow free and keep traffic disruption to Kent to a minimum. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/new-details-released-of-this-weekends-motorway-closures-198392/ 10th Feb 2019

Administrative Fall Out

Huffington Post UK Brits travelling in Europe will overnight face the return of mobile phone roaming charges in the event of a nodeal Brexit HuffPost can reveal. A littlenoticed government regulation laid before parliament on Tuesday confirms that the UK will revoke the current legislation that allows holidaymakers and business people to use their smartphones in the EU at no extra cost. The draft statutory instrument which has been tabled as part of a raft of nodeal preparations means that from March 29 phone users will be liable for surcharges when they travel on the continent. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brits-eu-mobile-phone-roaming-no-deal-brexit-government_uk_5c5b185be4b09293b20ab335 10th Feb 2019

Administrative Fall Out

The Washington Post The Road Haulage Association a transport industry body has warned of disastrous queues at ports if Britain doesnt exit smoothly with a deal. For those who rely on lifesaving medicines the thought of roads to and from ports turning into parking lots is distressing. As with many sectors health care is deeply integrated across Europe with sophisticated justintime supply chains uniting the 28nation bloc. Up to threequarters of all the drugs used by Britains staterun National Health Services come from or through the E.U. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/diabetics-in-britain-worry-a-no-deal-brexit-could-put-their-lives-at-risk/2019/02/05/b1822bc2-1f38-11e9-a759-2b8541bbbe20_story.html 10th Feb 2019

Administrative Fall Out

Business Insider The UK government has failed to recruit the 1000 new border workers it promised ahead of Brexit despite pledging to do so a year ago. The delay means the UK could be unprepared to cope with the strain of a nodeal Brexit on its borders. A leading union chief representing border workers tells Business Insider that Border Force staff can barely manage business as usual let alone cope with these new challenges. https://www.businessinsider.com/theresa-may-fails-to-hire-1000-new-border-workers-to-cope-with-brexit-no-deal-2019-2 8th Feb 2019

Administrative Fall Out

Intel News A few days ago the Londonbased newspaper The Daily Mail cited an unnamed counterterrorism source who said that MI5 Britains primary counterterrorism agency had stationed a fifth of its force in Northern Ireland. The agency is allegedly monitoring a number of dissident republican groups a term used to describe armed groups of Irish nationalists who continue to reject the nationalist communitys majority view to endorse the Good Friday Agreement back in 1998. https://intelnews.org/2019/01/29/01-2485/?fbclid=IwAR3H83rlb9c_7DFfQqsWiEPOTMrRriXLYODgmc-O-hB4qzPKLPuEXZVjD-E 29th Jan 2019

Administrative Fall Out

The Independent The governments new immigration plans will cost employers more than 1bn according to a new report. Global Future an independent think tank advocating an open and vibrant Britain arguges the flagship proposals will also impose an 80m barrier to EU students and the proposed settled status scheme postBrexit exactly mirrors the makings of last years Windrush scandal but on a much larger scale. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/immigration-white-paper-cost-employers-red-tape-visa-brexit-a8772956.html 11th Feb 2019

Administrative Fall Out

Forbes Saturday February 9 2019 sees the launch of the European Union EU Falsified Medicines Directive FMD but the U.K. could be kicked out of the newly launched pharma tech security system if it fails to reach a Withdrawal Agreement with the EU resulting in a nodeal Brexit. Despite having plowed millions of pounds into the project in less than 50 days time when the U.K. is set to leave the EU on March 29 2019 the U.K. could be forced to lock itself out of what has been dubbed the most hightech medicines safety system in the world. https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatobin/2019/02/09/u-k-could-be-kicked-out-of-newly-launched-pharma-tech-security-system-because-of-brexit/ 11th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47187491 10th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

PoliticsHome https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/news/101669/theresa-may-set-delay-second-commons-vote-her-brexit-deal 7th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

Financial Times The Labour Party will this week try to force Theresa May to pledge another meaningful vote on her Brexit deal before the end of February to prevent the prime minister taking the final parliamentary showdown on the UK departure from the EU to the wire. With fewer than 50 days to go until the scheduled Brexit day on March 29 there are growing fears among MPs and business leaders that Downing Street is engaged in dangerous brinkmanship. Keir Starmer shadow Brexit secretary will put forward an amendment within days aimed at compelling Mrs May to hold the vote before February 26. We have got to put a hard stop into this running down the clock he told the Sunday Times. https://www.ft.com/content/2c088e3e-2d19-11e9-ba00-0251022932c8 10th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

The Guardian Theresa May has effectively ruled out Labours ideas for a compromise Brexit plan shutting off another potential route to a deal as business groups warned that with less than 50 days to go the departure process was entering the emergency zone. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/10/brexit-mps-will-have-another-say-by-end-of-month-says-minister 11th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

The Guardian There are calls for a multibillionpound cut in the UKs overseas aid budget and closure of the Department for International Development DfID as a separate Whitehall entity are set out in a new Conservative vision for a postBrexit global Britain backed by the former foreign secretary Boris Johnson. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/10/boris-johnson-backs-call-for-multibillion-cut-to-uk-aid-budget 11th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

The Guardian Whitehall should publish the findings of Project After to clarify the direction of UK industrial strategy in the case of nodeal. here are plans under discussion in Whitehall to cope with the longterm consequences of a nodeal Brexit. Dubbed Project After these plans involve Whitehall officials poring over the governments entire portfolio of tax and spending commitments and how they might be adjusted once the UK tumbles out of the European Unions single market and tarifffree customs area. No 10 has kept Project After under wraps and little is known about any conclusions that might have been drawn. The theme we know centres on encouraging companies that might otherwise depart these shores to stay and encouraging fresh investment from businesses nervous about setting up shop in a newly outcast UK. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/10/government-post-brexit-plan-must-rule-out-singapore-model 10th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

The Guardian A trade union affiliated with the Labour party has claimed that Jeremy Corbyns party could lose an additional 45 seats in a snap election if it fails to take an antiBrexit position in a leaked report. The report drawn up by the transport union TSSA and including extensive polling was sent to the leftwing pressure group Momentum. It appears to be an attempt to pile pressure on the Labour leader over Brexit. It claims that Brexit energises Labour remain voters disproportionately and warns There is no middle way policy which gets support from both sides of the debate. The Guardian understands that while the report was sent to Momentum it was not commissioned or requested by the group. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/06/not-opposing-brexit-could-lose-labour-45-seats-says-leaked-report 10th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

MSN.com https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/tory-donors-could-stop-giving-after-no-deal-brexit/ar-BBTnOM8?ocid=spartandhp&ampfbclid=IwAR1KRsWErRTtTnw0AcC7iEMBAAWUYl9PDowIuyyTvd7Hagsq6rZ7bdkbNX0 9th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

The Times Conservative donors snubbed the partys annual Black and White Ball fundraiser leaving Theresa May increasingly dependent on handouts from supporters linked to Russia. A senior party insider said many big donors had failed to show up at the social event held on Wednesday night at the Evolution venue in Battersea Park London. One donor who did attend said others had stayed away in protest at Mays leadership and her handling of Brexit...Meanwhile May has accepted almost 270000 from Russianlinked donors since she blamed the Kremlin for the Skripal poisoning. She had promised to distance her party from Russian donors when she took office with allies briefing that she would sup with a long spoon. However the party has accepted almost 2m from Russialinked donors since May become prime minister in July 2016. Lubov Chernukin the wife of a former Putin minister has given 230250 since last March and Alexander Temerko a Ukrainianborn former Russian defence chief gave 39450. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit-donor-snub-has-pm-relying-on-backers-linked-to-russia-xkqcb73jb?fbclid=IwAR1Hmk_ZJHVHB6dPsCmxVfs4iyFswNkD4L1C84oE57KGCrpCpHHj-e-vyRQ 10th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

BuzzFeed News A diplomatic note seen by BuzzFeed News reveals that senior European diplomats think the prime minister is trying to buy time with MPs and the risks of a no deal by accident are increasing. https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/theresa-may-backstop-solution-eu-buy-time 9th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

iNews Audience members at a BBC programme to decide the UKs 2019 Eurovision entry were reportedly banned from bringing EU flags into the venue instead being offered Union Flags. In a move slammed by proEU campaigners as politicising all external flags were checked into security while the show was taking place. EU Flag Mafia a group who were handing out EU flags ahead of the event added No issues with the Union flag as were British but this is clear propaganda and against the Eurovision code of conduct. https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/eurovision-you-decide-bans-eu-flags/ 9th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

Daily Mirror https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/bbc-question-time-investigating-after-13971180 8th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

The Scotsman https://www.scotsman.com/news/bbc-question-time-criticised-after-three-time-audience-member-slams-snp-1-4870350 8th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

Daily Record The BBC has launched an investigation after it emerged a Question Time audience member who attacked the SNP had been on the show three times before. But Mitchells contribution from the audience sparked controversy because of his numerous previous appearances. Thursdays programme aired from Motherwell. Mitchell has previously asked questions from the audience at two debates in Stirling and one in Kilmarnock. Question Time is supposed to have stringent rules about applications and adhere to strict rules about balance. SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said the progamme had got itself into a real mess. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/bbc-investigating-after-scots-ex-13973034 8th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

Sky News Matt Hancocks confirmation of the preparations followed reports that senior figures are examining ways to reboot the economy if the UK leaves the European Union without an agreement in place. According to the Financial Times officials from the Treasury Cabinet Office business and trade departments are meeting with the head of the civil service to develop emergency plans as part of an initiative called Project After. The newspaper reports that options explored by the group have included cutting taxes boosting investment and slashing tariffs with one Whitehall source describing it as a Doomsday list of economic levers we could pull if the economy is about to tank. https://news.sky.com/story/govt-working-to-ensure-nhs-can-operate-fully-in-event-of-no-deal-brexit-11631392 8th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

The Independent Theresa May is returning to Westminster facing ministerial resignations after she left talks with EU leaders over her Brexit deal emptyhanded. With another vote in the Commons due next week a minister said colleagues on Ms Mays own front bench are ready to quit if there is no breakthrough in talks with Brussels. She was told on Thursday by a string of EU chiefs that the controversial backstop in the withdrawal agreement was not up for negotiation and that she should instead change her red lines to win Labour support and take the deal over the line. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-no-deal-brexit-cabinet-resigns-conservative-party-brussels-jean-claude-juncker-donald-a8768491.html 8th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

openDemocracy Facebook has new transparency rules on political ads. But in the last week proBrexit groups have spent tens of thousands pushing no deal without having to explain who pays for them. https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/peter-geoghegan/revealed-dark-money-brexit-ads-flooding-social-media 5th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

The Guardian Whatever the speculation about Boris Johnsons political ... no one can doubt his ability to make money since returning to the backbenches including it has emerged being paid more than 51000 for a single speech. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/06/boris-johnson-earned-51000-for-one-speech-mps-register-reveals 6th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

The Guardian Ireland is in talks with the EU over a substantial Brexit emergency fund to offset the damage caused to the countrys 4.5bn 3.96bn food exports to Britain if the UK crashes out of the bloc with no deal next month. As Theresa May prepares for a crunch meeting in Brussels on Thursday officials at the European commission are already looking at continuous compensatory measures for Ireland as part of an ongoing arrangement that could last years. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/05/ireland-and-eu-discuss-emergency-funds-to-offset-no-deal-brexit 5th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

BBC A man has been arrested by police investigating threats made to Labour MP Yvette Cooper. The 59yearold Leeds man was arrested in Castleford on Friday over alleged threats to the Normanton Pontefract and Castleford MP. West Yorkshire Police said the man was held as a result of information received in relation to alleged threats against a serving MP. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-47131698 5th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/09/sack-chris-grayling-ferry-fiasco-seaborne-freight-transport-secretary 10th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/09/government-cancels-brexit-ferry-contract-with-no-ship-firm 10th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/09/uk/uk-brexit-ferry-contract-gbr-intl/index.html 10th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

The New European https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brexit-ferry-contract-awarded-to-business-with-no-ships-terminated-1-5885554 9th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47144762 7th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

Channel 4 News https://www.channel4.com/news/mounting-calls-for-graylings-resignation 10th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

The Guardian Crossparty calls for transport secretary Chris Graylings dismissal following on from the collapse of a 13.8m contract to Seaborne Freight https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/09/sack-chris-grayling-ferry-fiasco-seaborne-freight-transport-secretary 10th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

The Guardian Posters exposing politicians lies and hypocrisy over leaving the EU are appearing across the UK. The friends behind the Led By Donkeys campaign explain why they had to take action https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/07/billboard-campaigners-brexit-led-by-donkeys 10th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

Politics Home Freedom of Information requests lodged by the BBC reveal that 1300 copies of the near600 page EU Withdrawal Agreement were printed to send to MPs and peers ahead of the deals 230vote defeat in a House of Commons vote last month. According to the new figures provided to the broadcaster by the Department for Exiting the European Union the Government spent 45637 getting paper copies of the deal produced. https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/news/101621/government-spent-more-%C2%A345000-printing-brexit-deal-theresa?fbclid=IwAR1UZOr-tK4MF4KwIMo87gy4HTheU_pvJKBuT4yQaXlkNkDFi_oNUQU309c 5th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

Channel 4 News The ferry company with no ferries might be stranded in a port that isnt a port. Running new services from Ramsgate was the Governments big idea to relieve the pressure on Dover in the event of a No Deal Brexit.But councillors in Ramsgate are meeting tonight to decide whether to make a series of budget cuts. If those cuts go through it might make the big plans for Ramsgate impossible. https://www.channel4.com/news/brexit-ferry-company-with-no-ferries-may-be-stranded-in-a-port-that-isnt-a-port 7th Feb 2019

Trade Deals/Negotiations

Huffington Post UK Ministers are secretly planning to unilaterally cut tariffs on all imports to zero in the event of a nodeal Brexit in a move that could flood the market with cheap goods and ruin industry HuffPost UK has learnt. Trade Secretary Liam Fox wants to use executive powers reserved only for ministers to make a lastminute change to the Trade Bill which would allow the government to dramatically slash tariffs on all foreign goods. It has been described by manufacturing union the GMB as the ultimate Brexit betrayal. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclusive-secret-plan-to-slash-tariffs-on-all-post-brexit-imports_uk_5c587b08e4b00187b553da30 10th Feb 2019

Trade Deals/Negotiations

Sunday Times Liam Fox is scrambling to replicate the benefits of the 40 trade deals Britain enjoys with 70 countries thanks to its membership of the EU. The task of crossing out the letters EU in these agreements and replacing them with UK has proved tougher than expected. A handful have been successfully rolled over with Switzerland Israel Chile and a clutch of southern African nations saying they will continue to trade with Britain on the same terms after Brexit. Yet officials at Foxs Department for International Trade DIT briefed business leaders last week that most of the deals may not be ready in time for the March 29 deadline including those with large markets such as Japan South Korea and Canada. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/when-can-i-move-my-cheese-drfox-b3gf3nj6d?shareToken=c0636b9b2280f41df23cb5fe5d246a12&ampfbclid=IwAR0lOP4MF8flWmIqgCddtNuVD-JdFSXuP47pa3_P34uqC1xADIxH2egafiU 10th Feb 2019

Trade Deals/Negotiations

The Guardian Japan is seeking tougher concessions from Britain in trade talks than it secured from the EU while negotiations between London and Tokyo are also being slowed by the looming risk of nodeal Brexit. Japanese trade negotiators are confident they can extract better terms the Financial Times reported in a sign of the mounting difficulties facing UK officials as they attempt to line up postBrexit trade deals around the world. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/08/japan-seeking-big-concessions-from-britain-in-trade-talks-eu-brexit 9th Feb 2019

Trade Deals/Negotiations

Huffington Post U.S. lobbyists for big firms have made more than 130 demands which need to be include or any potential trade deal to go ahead between the USA and the UK. These include Changing how NHS chiefs buy drugs to suit big US pharmaceutical companies Britain scraps its safetyfirst approach to safety and food standards Law changes that would allow foreign companies to sue the British state Removal of protections for traditional British products. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/what-us-lobbyists-want-donald-trump-to-get-from-the-uk-in-a-post-brexit-trade-deal_uk_5c5b26c6e4b00187b5579f64?utm_hp_ref=uk-homepage&ampncid=fcbklnkukhpmg00000001&ampfbclid=IwAR1vp33JFTGC1YliGjsE65AmFtXwa0qgNJ-0x_BkWGB2EeBOq-vOQXiILJc 8th Feb 2019

Trade Deals/Negotiations

Financial Times The UK government has told businesses it cannot guarantee the British economy will be covered by most of the EUs global network of trade agreements immediately after Brexit even if parliament approves Theresa Mays divorce deal with Brussels https://www.ft.com/content/7beae1d2-2a39-11e9-a5ab-ff8ef2b976c7 6th Feb 2019

Trade Deals/Negotiations

UK Government The UK has signed a new trade continuity agreement with the Faroe Islands. With almost 200 million worth of fish and crustaceans brought into the UK from the Faroe Islands in 2017 this agreement will allow imports to continue tarifffree and enable businesses to trade as freely as they do now. Trading on these preferential terms will secure savings and help to safeguard access to fish products from the Faroe Islands. Consumers in the UK will potentially benefit from greater choice and lower prices for fish and seafood such as Atlantic salmon haddock and halibut. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-faroe-islands-sign-trade-continuity-agreement?fbclid=IwAR1twvttD_UbrIzqArowTCNeCLHhIIuhK1fG6ROupg6z2wXM821mXq7lVl4 1st Feb 2019

EU Funding Benefits

@UK_Domain_Names The Government has put out a jaunty video covering the 10 steps yes TEN businesses will have to follow to import goods from the EU after a nodeal Brexit. https://twitter.com/uk_domain_names/status/1098911558233669632 22nd Feb 2019

EU Funding Benefits

The National Xenophobia is keeping foreignborn jobseekers out of the labour market across Europe research has found. The EUfunded SIRIUS project which involves researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University GCU looked at conditions in 11 different countries. https://www.thenational.scot/news/17552215.eu-funded-report-finds-xenophobia-is-holding-migrants-back/ 5th Apr 2019

EU Funding Benefits

Northwich Guardian Britain might be leaving the European Union next month but council chiefs are preparing to work with groups on the continent in an innovative project. Cheshire West and Chester Councils cabinet has unanimously given the goahead for the local authority to take part in a 3 million project that will use technology to help people with disabilities or impairments. Cllr Stuart Parker shadow cabinet member for communities and wellbeing in CWACs Conservative group urged the cabinet to go ahead with the bid. https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/17421341.pre-brexit-eu-funding-bid-for-cheshire-west-heritage-scheme/ 9th Feb 2019

EU Funding Benefits

Hastings Observer A plan to run a minitram along Hastings seafront has received mixed reactions since the news broke this week. At a meeting yesterday Monday February 4 Hastings Borough Council said it was looking at running a minitram from one end of the seafront to the other after winning European project funding. Despite the 159463 project being funded by the Interreg Europe a scheme funded by the European Union and European Regional Development Fund some frustrated readers have asked why the ringfenced money cannot be used to help improve the town in other ways. https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/residents-react-to-hastings-eu-funded-mini-tram-scheme-1-8798350 5th Feb 2019