Basit Mahmood
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Food experts issue dire warning: Tearing up EU rules too quickly threatens safety and hygiene standards
Among the ‘retained laws’ which will be swept away as part of the government’s bonfire of EU laws and regulations, are obligations to alert consumers about allergens in foods.
Calls for Paul Dacre’s peerage to be delayed
“I don’t think that man should be allowed anywhere near the House of Lords. He has already poisoned the well of British politics quite enough.”
GB News loses half its value after Discovery sells up
It hasn’t gone quite as planned for the channel which promised to be ‘boldly different’.
Tory minister pushes to downgrade importance of climate change in trade deals
Conor Burns said he had been fighting back in his first two weeks at the Department for International Trade against plans ‘to push net-zero and the environment to the top of every single trade agreement as a sort of policy objective’.
Latest polling shows Tories would be left with just 85 seats
Labour would have a majority of 292 seats