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...Have a great week,Helen ThomasHead of Lex...
...The whole episode is worth chewing over because it illustrates how far both sides need to go to avoid triggering those powerful — and I’d argue, destructive — old Brexit reflexes....
...Have a great week, Helen ThomasHead of Lexhelen.thomas@ft.com...
...Helen Bedford, professor of children’s health at University College London, said one reason for falling vaccination rates could be due to concern about the effect of the Covid vaccine on pregnant women....
...Have a tasty weekend, Helen ThomasHead of Lex...
...The government said it was committed to supporting companies as they adapt to new border checks, adding that its “engagement with businesses in advance of these checks ha[d] been extensive”....
...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....
...“A great many books are firmly closed despite the general impression that they’re wide open — they’ll jovially present their back cover as page one and be baffled that you thought there’d be more.”...
...Helen ThomasHead of Lex...
...Have a great weekend, Helen ThomasHead of Lex...
...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....
...Peter Foster, the FT’s public policy editor, is here to tell us more. Hi, Peter. Peter FosterHi....
...“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.”...
...Don’t fall for anything this weekend, Helen ThomasHead of Lex...
...Yeats called her the betrayer of “all living hearts”; Shakespeare, a “strumpet”; Alexander Ross, “a deform’d soul”; Rupert Brooke, “a scold . . . shrill . . . gummy-eyed and impotent”....
...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....
...“Compared to the billions spent annually on upstream R&D, the budget for downstream regulators to help get these innovations to market is minimal,” says Ringer at Form Ventures, who proposed eventually increasing...
...“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....
...Claer Barrett Helen, anything to add on credit card points? Helen Saxon Look, I’d echo that....
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