Irish workers have been making the short trip over to the UK to find employment for centuries, escaping famine and more recently the aftermath of the financial crisis. But new data suggests that job seekers from across the Irish Sea are drying up after Britain’s departure from the European Union amplified a growing anti-immigrant tone...
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No Brexit renegotiation without free movement, warns Barnier
Mr Barnier, who negotiated Britain’s split from the EU and the future trade agreement, told The Telegraph that the bloc would welcome fresh talks but would not ease its previous red lines. He said: “It is one thing to say that we can revisit the relationship between the UK and the EU, and in the...
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Nobody is confronting the great Remainer lie about Brexit
Eight years ago on Sunday, we went to vote in the Brexit referendum. Let’s not forget that most of our rulers never wanted it in the first place. It only happened because of the campaigning of Nigel Farage and Ukip and the determination of a bunch of Tory MPs like Sir Bill Cash. It became...
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‘Join the revolt’: UK’s Farage to lay out election policies
Wales – Nigel Farage, whose entry into the British election has damaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s already faint hopes of victory, will on Monday set out his Reform UK party’s policies, saying they should form the opposition to a Labour government. Farage is one of Britain’s most recognisable and divisive politicians and has pressured successive...
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Rishi Sunak: Britain’s embattled Conservative leader
Rishi Sunak is seeking his own public mandate at next month’s general election having been installed as Conservative leader and UK prime minister by his own colleagues in parliament. The 44-year-old former financier was tasked with stabilising the UK economy, and his own notoriously fractious party, when he succeeded Liz Truss in October 2022 after...
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Britain’s Rishi Sunak apologizes for leaving D-Day event early to return to campaigning | CBC News
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a fresh setback in his struggling election campaign on Friday when he apologized for leaving D-Day commemorations early in order to give an interview attacking the main opposition party. Sunak’s decision to leave early was met with dismay within his Conservative Party, which is trailing far behind the Labour...
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Why immigration is a major issue in Britain’s election
In 2010, Conservative then-prime minister David Cameron pledged to bring net migration back to tens of thousands a year, a target he never came close to reaching. Ending the free movement of people into Britain from other European countries was a major factor that led to the 2016 vote to leave the European Union, with...
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UK Infrastructure Bank: ‘We’re the catalyst’
The UK’s part-answer to Germany’s KfW and Bpifrance is the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB). Built on Brexit rubble in the wake of the UK leaving the EU – and, with it, the European Investment Bank – UKIB was established in early 2021. Its five-year mandate is to invest £12 billion ($15.2 billion; €14.1 billion) to...
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UK’s post-Brexit border arrangements to cost $6 bn after repeated delays
2 min read Last Updated : May 20 2024 | 9:05 AM IST The British government estimates it will spend at least 4.7 billion pounds ($6 billion) on implementing post Brexit border arrangements, after repeated delays in setting new rules, parliament’s spending watchdog said on Monday. Britain voted to leave the European...
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French town puts up D-Day bunting – but excludes Britain ‘in Brexit punishment’
Britain has been airbrushed out of a Normandy town’s D-Day commemorations, with officials putting up bunting in tribute to the US and Canada, plus every EU member state – but excluding this country. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron has risked the wrath of allies by inviting Russian officials to attend a ceremony scheduled for June...
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France and Germany’s economies hit by eurozone slump as UK bounces back
Economies in the eurozone are growing at half the pace of the UK’s, according to figures published by the European Union’s own statistics division – with Germany and France doing even worse. And one UK-based economist has warned countries in 19-strong monetary union to brace themselves for a “muted” recovery – in contrast to Britain,...
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Why did UK airports’ e-gates fail – and will it happen again?
Several of the UK’s busiest airports saw their e-gates system fail on Tuesday – but is it concerning or par for the course? ADVERTISEMENT E-gates at airports across the UK have returned to normal following a mass outage which caused disruption and huge queues for thousands of passengers. On Tuesday, the electronic gates Heathrow, Gatwick,...