Britain should avoid hasty reforms to make its financial sector more globally competitive after the industry’s separation from the European Union by Brexit, a parliamentary report said on Thursday. The finance ministry has proposed scores of changes to rules governing capital markets, company listings and insurance to exploit independence from EU regulation and create an … Read more
Britain should avoid hasty reforms to make its financial sector more globally competitive after the industry’s separation from the European Union by Brexit, a parliamentary report said on Thursday. The finance ministry has proposed scores of changes to rules governing capital markets, company listings and insurance to exploit independence from EU regulation and create an … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. The UK government is bringing forward a new bill on the Northern Ireland protocol today, setting up what may be months of clashes with the EU, the House … Read more
More than 20,000 people, including 140 traditional marching bands, are expected to parade through Belfast on Saturday as the loyalist Orange Order celebrates the centenary of Northern Ireland with what organisers are billing a “colourful and joyous spectacle”. The event, delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic from last year’s anniversary of the region’s founding, is expected … Read more
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Hands are seen on a keyboard in front of a displayed cyber code in this picture illustration taken October 4, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illutration 2/2 By Raphael Satter, James Pearson and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) -A new website that published leaked emails from several leading proponents of Britain’s exit from the … Read more
(Reuters) — A new website that published leaked emails from several leading proponents of Britain’s exit from the European Union is tied to Russian hackers, according to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of U.K. foreign intelligence. The website — titled “Very English Coop d’Etat” — says it has published private emails from former British spymaster … Read more
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is gambling the future of his Democratic Unionist party on a battle of wills with the British government over post-Brexit trading relations with Northern Ireland, say critics. Donaldson was humbled in the region’s May 5 elections when the nationalist Sinn Féin pushed his long-dominant party into second place and supporters defected in … Read more
“Let us start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti genetic modification rules and . . . develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.” So said Boris Johnson as he spoke outside Downing Street on the day he became prime minister. With all the fury of Brexit, here was a bold pledge to fight … Read more
In his general election campaign of 2019, Boris Johnson promised the country that he would “get Brexit done”. He has failed. Once again he is planning a law to allow him to repudiate parts of the UK’s Brexit deal on Northern Ireland, on which he campaigned. This would destroy the UK’s reputation for keeping its … Read more
British manufacturers are bringing back production to the UK in a “reshoring” push to try to address the supply-chain chaos caused by the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit. Three-quarters of companies have increased the number of their British suppliers in the past two years, according to a survey by Make UK, the manufacturers’ trade group. Almost … Read more