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...This being the season of redemption and resurrection, I thought I’d start with a couple of cheerier Brexit stories for once....
...And yet, in true Brexit style, these charges come at the eleventh hour (they start in just 26 days time, on April 30) after five delays and a flip-flop over whether they’d be needed at all....
...This being the Brexit watchers’ newsletter, you’d expect me to point out that there was a conspicuous absentee among Hunt’s list of reasons why the UK remains in the grip of a productivity slump that started...
...The UK spends billions on R&D but relative peanuts on the gatekeepers that bring products to market. The balance needs to be adjusted. And relatively speaking, you’ll get a lot of bang for your buck....
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...And they have excellent restaurants, so normally I’d have lunch there too. If it’s a Sunday, there’s the flea market at Consell....
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...“I think at the latest we’d like to see this settled by the Washington summit,” she told reporters. “I think you’re well aware that the US position is that we fully back Mark Rutte.”...
...“You’d think after all this time, they’d have come up with something more interesting than smoked salmon,” King imagines his fictional critic carping....
...So while, as you’d expect, left-leaning Guardian readers are 78-15 in favour of change, and Financial Times readers take a consensus 63-30 position that the Tories should go, the Conservative-leaning papers...
...“If you were to think of medicines as a regional security issue, you’d want the whole of Europe, including the UK, to be resilient. The world has changed....
...“I used to drive and it would take me 45 minutes and I’d spend a tenner on parking. This takes me five minutes right into town.”...
...We’re still in the foothills of 2024, so I thought that as I closed before Christmas with a review of last year, today I’d look ahead to what might — and might not — happen in Brexitland over the next 12...
...If we’d kept doing what we were doing I think we’d be thriving....
...A lot of conversations went along the lines of: “You’re so lucky, we’re handcuffed to Brussels, but if we Italians had not joined the euro we’d have voted to leave by now too.”...
...“We’d like realism on the need for investment in the underlying infrastructure. We can’t flick a switch,” said Hartley....
...Shared interests Thinking about mutual strategic interest, it was notable that Haviland said she’d raised the issue of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and alignment on emissions trading schemes...
...There'd be UKCA marked products which you could sell in the UK. And if you wanted to sell goods in the European Union you'd have to have CE marking for those items....
...Cross-benchers Lord Anthony Grabiner, a leading KC, and businessman and former BBC governor Lord Robert Smith are also among the line up....
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...“We’d like to use those engineering skills in some other way, but the longer it goes on, the harder it gets” as the skills base dissipates, he said....
...“Then I started doing my design thing, and he was working at [Anthony] d’Offay, alongside Sadie Coles – with Damien Hirst in the storeroom; can you imagine?”...
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