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...It is the first step of where we’d want to get to,” one of the insiders reportedly said, adding they were reflecting new internal thinking on the EU relationship within the Labour leadership....
...He added: “There’s no convention that’s developed that you’d keep these appointments open for an incoming government to fill.”...
...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....
...This being the season of redemption and resurrection, I thought I’d start with a couple of cheerier Brexit stories for once....
...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”....
...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....
...That’s why former prime minister Theresa May sought to remain in what was in effect a customs union with the EU....
...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...
...But at the same time, he also sounded quite sort of robotic and weakened in terms of his voice, his projection of his own power in a sort of almost a kind of Theresa May-type feel about it....
...“It is time to concede that Theresa May’s vision has failed....
...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....
...We’ve long known that Labour, if elected, wants a security pact with the EU (something that Theresa May originally envisaged, but Boris Johnson junked) but Lammy used the Munich stage to land the point that...
...“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.”...
...From Theresa May’s promise of frictionless trade outside the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, to the belief that a hard Brexit wouldn’t create a trade border with Ireland, magical thinking...
...“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.”...
...The sparse details sounded like an echo of the rattling chains of the Chequers plan drawn up by Theresa May, when she was prime minister in 2018....
...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...
...chart which is taken from a fascinating deep dive into UK trade performance by the Boston Consulting Group’s centre for growth, which is run by Raoul Ruparel, who in a previous life was Europe adviser to Theresa...
...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....
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