Leave voters turn their back on Johnson’s Brexit deal – report finds
After living with the UK-EU trade deal for almost a year, opinion among Brexiteers on the merits of the deal negotiated by Prime Minister is leaning from approval to disproval.
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Prof Prem Sikka: Income and wealth need to be redistributed and public services rejuvenated
‘The neoliberal economic policies have increased social tensions but have failed to energise the economy. They have impoverished people and turned town centres into economic deserts.’
‘Lost credibility’: Europe reacts to the Downing Street Christmas party fiasco
A glance at the European newspapers shows the backlash over the No. 10 Christmas party controversy isn’t confined to British soil.
Mike Buckley: Brexit has reintroduced the psychological borders of the past for Northern Ireland
‘Northern Ireland, so recently freed by a better generation of politicians from the violence that so regularly cost lives and damaged property, cannot afford to go back.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, December 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Expect the new German coalition to push the EU to be tough on law breakers and Brexit
‘Any chance of a softer approach to the Frost/Johnson’s post Brexit game playing and sabre rattling were dashed by the deal which stresses a commitment “to a common European policy’
Seasonal jobs for young Britons in EU battered by Brexit, says travel industry
Young people’s opportunities to work in temporary jobs in the European Union have been significantly limited by Brexit bureaucracy, businesses in the travel sector reveal.
UK government was not adequately prepared for Covid, watchdog finds
With time and energy lost on Brexit negotiations, the UK was not fully prepared for the pandemic, an independent watchdog has unveiled.
Tory threats to EU over Article 16 of Northern Ireland protocol could badly backfire
‘Johnson and Frost are playing a dangerous game. EU watchers are predicting far from sitting back and taking it on the chin the EU may launch immediate action against the UK’
Brexit swipes £17bn off UK trade with EU in 3 months – watchdog finds
A spending watchdog has confirmed the devastating impact Brexit has had on UK trade with Europe.