A selection of current Brexit related news feeds

Brexit News Feeds

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31/03/2023 Rishi Sunak sidesteps question about whether having private swimming pool means he’s out of touch – as it happened ,,

PM also refused to say what he would do if inquiry into Dominic Raab found justice secretary bullied officials. This live blog is closed

The UK government has announced a £57m funding package to support Northern Ireland charities and community organisations facing a financial crisis due to a loss of European money, PA Media reports. PA says:

Eighteen projects across the region will receive backing through the UK shared prosperity fund with a focus on groups helping support people into work.

The announcement comes just a day before financial support provided by the European social fund comes to an end due as a consequence of Brexit. Some charities in Northern Ireland had warned they would have to cut staff and support programmes if funding was not replaced.

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31/03/2023 Raw sewage discharged into English rivers more than 300,000 times in 2022 ,,Rain falling on a river

‘Unparalleled negligence’ by water companies continues to create consequences

Yorkshire Bylines Local News: Raw sewage discharged into English rivers more than 300,000 times in 2022

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31/03/2023 ‘Take back control’? With this Pacific trade deal, Brexit Britain has just signed it away | Nick Dearden ,,

Goodbye, food standards. Hello, corporate lobbyists. Why are we doing this, for no real economic benefit?

Last night, the government announced that Britain has joined a trade deal so contentious that it united Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in opposition to US membership.

While hardcore Brexiters would like to pretend this is the ultimate payoff of our decision to leave the EU and write our own rules, the reality is somewhat different. In signing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Britain has ditched environmental standards, signed up to terms that will undermine British farmers, and left us open to being sued by multinational corporations in secretive courts. And all for no real economic benefit.

Nick Dearden is director of Global Justice Now (formerly World Development Movement)

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31/03/2023 Hot, dry summer impacts UK butterfly populations ,,uk butterfly population

The heatwave and drought of summer 2022 has had a major negative impact on some UK butterfly species, a study has confirmed.

Yorkshire Bylines Local News: Hot, dry summer impacts UK butterfly populations

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31/03/2023 Top Stories: UK Joins Asia Trade Deal, Economy Grew At End Of Last Year ,,The UK has joined an Indo-Pacific trade partnership which the government says will show what the country can achieve in international trade post-Brexit. www.politicshome.com Visit...
31/03/2023 Labour Review Plans For World-First "Trauma-Informed" Criminal Justice System ,,Labour is carrying out a review into how to create the world’s first “trauma-informed” criminal justice system, as the party also promises to be tough on crime and antisocial behaviour. www.politicshome.com Visit...
31/03/2023 The rise of Christian conservatism: a threat to abortion rights in Britain ,,Christian conservatism in UK

If you think abortion rights in the UK are secure and the equivalent of overturning Roe v Wade couldn’t happen here, think again

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31/03/2023 The war in Ukraine reminds us what the EU is for. But even bigger challenges lie ahead | Timothy Garton Ash ,,

Support for the European Union is strong – even in post-Brexit Britain. Can it come through its external battles, too?

It’s springtime in Brussels and the European Union has a spring in its step. Its leaders and institutions have been galvanised by the war in Ukraine. “The war has reminded us what Europe is really about,” people kept telling me on a recent visit to the EU’s capital.

There’s a popular theory that says European integration advances through crises. The truth is that sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. You’d have to be a starry-eyed Euro-optimist, for example, to claim that European unity was really advanced by the 2015-16 refugee crisis. But in its last two big ones, the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, we have seen the “challenge and response” mechanism that the historian Arnold Toynbee identified as one of the patterns of history.

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31/03/2023 UK joins Asia-Pacific CPTPP trade bloc that includes Japan and Australia ,,

Unions have condemned clauses in deal that will allow large firms to sue UK government behind closed doors

Britain has joined the 11-member strong Asia-Pacific trade bloc that includes Japan and Australia after nearly two years of negotiations.

The deal, part of a push to agree worldwide trade deals after Brexit, secures access for British exporters to 500 million people in the 11-member Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

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30/03/2023 ‘Festival of Brexit’ met radically downgraded predictions for visitor numbers ,,

Final evaluation of Unboxed science and arts festival finds it delivered on its economic objectives

At a cost of £116.8m to the taxpayer, it was hoped that the Unboxed science and arts festival would bring the UK together in a post-Brexit love-fest and enhance our international reputation – to “showcase what makes our country great today”.

The final evaluation has found that the festival, commissioned by Theresa May in 2018 and named a “festival of Brexit” by Jacob Rees-Mogg, brought together a fraction of the audiences initially hoped for. It nevertheless met later, radically downgraded predictions and delivered on its economic objectives.

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