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The airlines asked for help from the government to ease their staff shortage situation, but were turned down.
A body representing the aerospace industry says it is "disappointed" that the government has not taken an "ambitious approach".
Joe Biden’s climate change plan isn’t a threat to the UK, it’s an opportunity.
The government’s plan to slash flight compensation for delays on UK domestic flights has been branded as “another Brexit win”, as it would impact on consumer refund rights.
While the loss of unfettered access to the European Union market has been a huge loss and frustration to UK operators following Brexit, the country’s departure from the bloc will soon deal a blow for UK airspace users. Starting June 25, their ability to perform LPV approaches will be removed...
UK’s exit from EU ‘no doubt will have been a factor’, transport secretary concedes.
Brexit ‘completely’ to blame for airport chaos, says Ryanair boss – predicting summer-long disruption
21/06/2022
'This government couldn’t run a sweet shop', says Michael O’Leary,
In 2016, Warburtons' boss said: “Brexit is a very good thing to have happened. We could either continue to be in the European Union and wait for it all to collapse around us, or we could make our own way out of it and crack on as an independent nation. We decided the latter.”
A company that praised Brexit as "excellent" for business is now near collapse after the government rejected a £30m ($34m) advance.
Confusion over Dominic Cummings’ departure as No 10 refuses to say if he has formally quit
13/11/2020
Unclear whether loser in Downing Street power struggle will sever his links entirely, or even retain a ‘hot desk’.
Jacob Rees-Mogg says we should ignore an EU push for speed limiters in cars - but it has the potential to save more lives than seat belts.
Fears of dead chicks in lorries and 10 months of ports chaos detailed in new government document
04/08/2020
Emergency traffic measures to last until ‘end of October 2021’ – with a giant lorry park to hold 2,000 goods vehicles.
Four ferry firms have landed government contracts worth a total of £77.6m to provide post-Brexit freight capacity.
In a video from 2019, Farage says passionately that the food shortages threat is "Project Fear" and "should be utterly, completely, totally, disregarded.”
The UK government’s post-Brexit plan to ditch all EU laws by the end of next year have fallen further into jeopardy, after civil servants discovered 1,400 more pieces of retained legislation.
Locals condemn lack of consultation over customs clearance site for 1,200 lorries.
The former chancellor said the Conservatives, Labour and national broadcasters "won’t talk about it", but the split with the EU is to blame.
Moveable concrete barrier to replace the chaotic Operation Brock no-deal Brexit system to manage traffic jams on the M20.
New services provided to ease expected congestion at Kent ports
Motorists and shoppers have been urged not to panic buy fuel and goods as the shortage of lorry drivers hit supplies.
‘We expect the EU to bring forward contingency measures,’ said the transport secretary.
Grant Shapps made quite the blunder last weekend, after the Welwyn Hatfield MP said he voted for Brexit despite previously claiming he voted to remain.
Grant Shapps has stressed the importance of post-Brexit controls on work visas after government sources confirmed that ministers are braced for a record increase in immigration figures this month.
Grant Shapps has claimed that he voted for Brexit - despite repeatedly insisting previously that he had backed Remain.
Ikea boss says Brexit has caused ‘chaos’
19/01/2023
A leading Ikea executive on Thursday said Brexit had caused “chaos”, as a senior UK minister admitted in Davos that Britain’s departure from the EU had brought “significant challenges”.
Staff shortages causing havoc at airports across the country have been blamed on Brexit.
Liars of the year: Our rundown of the terrible pork pies that disgraced and degraded public life in 2023
20/12/2023
After holding off some formidable competition, Michelle Mone has claimed the coveted title of The New European’s Liar of the Year for 2023.
Lidl has blamed empty shelves at some of its stores on "disruptions to supply chain networks".
'Kent deserves better than being turned into a car park because of Boris Johnson’s reckless unwillingness to take a no-deal off the table,' say Lib Dems.
Ministers have ruled out extending the Brexit process into 2021 amid calls for it to be delayed due to the Covid crisis and the deadlock in trade talks.
‘Invitation to tender’ issued in a beefed-up version of Chris Grayling’s failed contracts with ferry companies, which ended in humiliation. / Ministers are preparing to spend £300m to bring in emergency food and medicine supplies after a no-deal Brexit – including through airlifts.
HOLYROOD has been urged to withhold consent to the UK Government's so-called Brexit freedoms bill. / The plans to scrap at least 2,400 laws carried over from the UK’s 47-year membership of the EU have proved controversial.
The latest £8m payout adds to the bill for a "sorry saga" which "encapsulates the Brexit mess perfectly".
Medical and pharmaceutical industry leaders are warning some of the contingency planning for a no-deal Brexit is not as well advanced as it was earlier this year.
Philip Hammond condemns ‘staggeringly hypocritical’ plan to purge Tory MPs who rebel over Brexit
31/08/2019
The ex-Chancellor continued his public feud with Boris Johnson, attacking the Prime Minister's 'hypocritical' plan to stifle dissent.
Businesses had protested that the ‘UKCA’ quality mark represented pointless and costly red tape.
Spike in imports has led to bottlenecks of containers carrying supplies for shops and factories.
IoD and unions among groups writing to government, saying move would cause business chaos, harm rights and threaten environment.
Brexit has caused sadness far and wide, but for very many musicians who are only just beginning to emerge from the Covid-induced touring dearth, Brexit has been a disaster. A survey conducted by musicians in 2021 revealed that 34 per cent of musicians had already lost work as a result of Brexit. A violinist said, “I am professionally paralysed by Brexit.”
Departure of Boris Johnson’s Brexit ‘brain’ signals end of influence for Vote Leave team.
We have reached a watershed moment in the long Brexit saga. The government’s U-turn this week on the Great Repeal Bill has laid bare the great elephant-sized conundrum that has always been at the heart of Brexit: identifying any significant EU laws that were both holding Britain back and can be ditched without damaging our own economy.
The UK is "sleepwalking into a disaster" over its border plans for the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December, road hauliers have warned.
The UK delayed the roll-out of new post-Brexit product safety marking in order to stave off extra costs for companies that are already under pressure due to rising inflation and expected tax rises.
UK fishermen halting exports to EU as ‘catastrophe’ Brexit bureaucracy renders business unviable
08/01/2021
Perishable seafood first casualty of Boris Johnson’s new trade barriers.
ANGUS Robertson has urged the UK Government to push back their "bonfire" of Brexit laws until 2029.
Thousands of British petrol stations ran out of fuel due to panic buying on Monday, after days of long queues at pumps caused by the lorry driver shortage. Analysts say that, in addition to Covid, the speed of the Brexit process bears a lot of responsibility for the crisis...
UK pilots urge Government to end damaging post Brexit licence inequality stopping them securing jobs
23/07/2021
More than 3500 UK Pilots have written to the Government to highlight the new and unfair system that means UK pilot licences have been ‘seriously degraded in value and utility’ following Brexit. The new state of play has actively prevented UK pilots, including those made redundant due to Covid-19, from securing UK jobs.
The UK is to withdraw from the European Union aviation safety regulator (EASA) after the Brexit transition period, Grant Shapps has confirmed.
UK train operators to pull out of Interrail
07/08/2019
The UK’s train operators are to pull out of the Interrail scheme, which has allowed unlimited train travel across Europe for a fixed price for almost 50 years.
The UK will leave the European aviation safety regulator after the Brexit transition period, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed.
Brexit has "permanently damaged" the UK economy, former Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders warned as London was deposed as Europe's biggest stock market.
Meanwhile former Cabinet minister George Eustice questioned the negotiating strategy that led to the Australia and New Zealand trade deals.
Grant Shapps has announced policy aimed at foreign lorry drivers to help ease supply chain problems.
Ministers are saying “this won’t be as bad as the winter of discontent”. I dread to think what they’ll promise next.
DISRUPTION to medical supplies and potential coronavirus vaccines as a result of Brexit cannot be ruled out, Scotland’s Deputy First Minister has said.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps warned of "a risk of some additional friction at the border".
British firms are yet to see any upside from Brexit, according to one of the UK’s top executives, who urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to improve the trade agreement with the European Union to boost growth.
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