Stock market is braced for more falls this morning after UK firms had more than £250billion wiped off their value last week amid coronavirus panic Shares around world plunged last week as first British death was confirmed The rout knocked £4.6trillion off global shares in a sign of rising investor panic Experts warned investors to … Read more
‘We know how to make it a very nasty battle’: French minister warns Britain that a post-Brexit trade deal could collapse if there is no agreement to allow EU fishermen work in UK waters Amelie de Montchalin gave her first English language interview today# Said agreement between London and Brussels hinged on four factors A … Read more
One of the Government’s most senior officials has made the incendiary suggestion that Britain does not need its own farming industry. In leaked emails obtained by The Mail on Sunday, powerful Treasury adviser Tim Leunig argues that the food sector is not ‘critically important’ to the economy – and that agriculture and fishery production ‘certainly isn’t’. … Read more
How Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds made history as first unmarried couple to live together in Downing Street Boris Johnson, 55, and Carrie Symonds, 31, have announced their engagement Couple have also revealed they are expecting a baby together in early summer They had made history as first unmarried couple to move into Downing Street By … Read more
Chlorinated chicken will stay off the menu in the UK after Brexit amid fears American farm produce is made to lower standards Trade Secretary is to publish a blueprint for trade talks with the US on Monday Chlorinated chicken will not be imported into the UK after Brexit, ministers said ‘Opening our ports to food’ which … Read more
Dame Emma Thompson memorably once described this country as ‘a tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort-of Europe, a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island’. Now, reportedly in the wake of Brexit, the Oscar winner is quitting these shores to seek more happiness – and sunshine – in Italy. Dame Emma and her husband Greg Wise, … Read more
Furious MPs today demand new chancellor Rishi Sunak axe an EU-imposed tax that has added almost £2,000 to the cost of a new motorhome and hand a post-Brexit boost to British businesses. Under a green Brussels regulation change last September the vehicle excise duty for new campervans rocked from £265 in the first year to £2,135, … Read more
A firm developing a rival bid to expand Heathrow today launched an appeal against a ruling by leading judges that the Government must reconsider its support for a third runway. The Arora Group said it lodged appeal papers in the Supreme Court in a bid to ‘put Heathrow expansion back on track’ as the west … Read more
Climate-change activists will not be the only ones celebrating the Court of Appeal’s decision to block a new third runway at Heathrow. It saves the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who once threatened to lie down in front of the bulldozers, from having to make an embarrassing U-turn. It is a great victory for British Airways … Read more
Michael Gove was charged with updating the House on the Government’s Brexit strategy yesterday. Of course he was. For years the Govester has been the Government’s man for big occasions. The closer, the ‘death’ bowler entrusted with the crucial last overs. Need to rally the troops? Send for Gove! Under the previous lot this was … Read more