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              Brexit

              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                UK politics
                UK presses ahead with gene editing plans despite EU warnings

                Environment secretary tells FT that moves to adopt technology are ‘the right thing to do’

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              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                UK politics
                UK delays gene editing plans in push for Brexit reset

                Brussels warns that current British plans not compatible with agreement to cut border checks

                A conceptual illustration of genome editing using Crispr
              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                LexEnergy sector
                Electricity co-operation post-Brexit has far more positives than negatives Premium content

                A simple trading agreement would suit both Europe and the UK

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              • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
                Matthew O'Toole
                Northern Ireland should make the most of its proximity to the EU

                Belfast stands to gain from enhancing its unique position between London, Dublin and Brussels

                Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer outside Parliament Buildings at Stormont, Belfast
              • Friday, 27 December, 2024
                Inside Politics
                Northern Ireland braced for more Brexit turbulence

                Country enters 2025 tackling a web of regulations, political divisions and unfulfilled investment hopes

                The Stormont parliament building
              • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
                UK trade
                Starmer must agree youth mobility pact with EU, says business group

                British Chambers of Commerce makes 13 recommendations ahead of ‘reset’ talks on trading relationship next year

                UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
              • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
                Northern Ireland politicians object to an EU law applying in the region

                Lawmakers for the first time invoke a post-Brexit procedure to oppose the bloc’s tweaked labelling of chemical products

                A no entry sign to a side road ion the Stormont Estate
              • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
                The State of Britain
                Charities are often overlooked when it comes to Budget impacts Premium content

                Also in this week’s newsletter, measuring the impact of Brexit on trade

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              • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
                Shipping
                Holyhead port closure risks ‘shortages’ in Ireland, hauliers warn

                Shipments delayed or rerouted after Storm Darragh damaged berths at north Wales terminal

                A ferry in the background at Holyhead. In the forground are trucks
              • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
                Brexit hit to UK trade less than predicted, says study

                Larger companies have adapted to red tape at the border, according to London School of Economics research

                Trucks leave the Port of Dover after disembarking from a ship
              • Monday, 16 December, 2024
                EU takes UK to court in blow to London’s efforts to ‘reset’ relations

                European Commission brings ECJ cases over treatment of citizens and bilateral investment deals

                The main entrance to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg
              • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
                UK trade
                Britain becomes first European nation to join Pacific trade bloc

                Both Labour and Tories say membership of CPTPP will bring benefits but these will be dwarfed by Brexit-related losses

                Singapore and Vietnam trade ministers alongside UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch during the signing of the deal for the UK to join the CPTPP in New Zealand last year
              • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
                The State of Britain
                It’s time for the UK to be brave in talks with the EU Premium content

                Also in this newsletter, Scotland’s drive to end child poverty

                Rachel Reeves talks to Spanish trade minister Carlos Cuerpo
              • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
                UK foreign policy
                Keir Starmer to hold talks with EU on defence co-operation

                British premier accepts invitation by bloc to discuss security matters in latest sign of improving relations

                UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer shakes hands with European Council president António Costa at Downing Street on Thursday
              • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
                UK agriculture
                Farmers gather in Whitehall in latest protest against UK Budget tax changes

                Tractors park up in main London thoroughfare in rally opposing government inheritance tax reforms

                Tractors are driven through Westminster on Wednesday
              • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
                UK energy
                EU advises members not to give UK greater access to energy market

                Brussels says its ‘no cherry picking’ rule should apply to co-operation on electricity trading

                Wind turbines off the coast of Scotland
              • Monday, 9 December, 2024
                UK trade
                Reeves calls on EU to give greater access for City of London

                Plea comes in first appearance by a UK chancellor at a Euro finance meeting since Brexit

                Rachel Reeves
              • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
                EU will demand early fish deal in UK reset talks

                Requirement among red lines drawn up by Brussels ahead of 2025 negotiations

                Fishing in the North Sea
              • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
                Rachel Reeves to pledge ‘ambitious’ economic partnership with EU

                UK chancellor will promise to fully honour post-Brexit deals in meeting with bloc’s finance ministers

                Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
              • Friday, 6 December, 2024
                UK trade
                UK’s balanced trade with US reduces risk of fresh Trump tariffs, says Reynolds

                Focus on services may mean Britain does not face ire of incoming US president, business secretary tells FT summit

                Jonathan Reynolds speaking to George Parker at the FT Global Boardroom
              • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
                News in-depth
                UK chemicals sector doubts Starmer ‘reset’ will end Brexit blues

                Businesses say regulatory and customs frictions will barely be eased if Labour government sticks to red lines on EU

                Richard Lock, managing director and COO of Holiferm
              • Monday, 2 December, 2024
                EU digs in on student fees as UK youth mobility talks near

                Brussels is willing to make small concessions over naming of scheme and length of stay

                Graduates from Imperial College London
              • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
                John Springford
                What Britain can learn from France about growth

                Planning reform by itself is not enough to supercharge the UK economy

                People crossing Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris
              • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
                UK foreign policy
                Starmer to be invited to meet EU leaders to discuss European defence

                Significant post-Brexit move comes as Brussels seeks closer ties with UK

                Keir Starmer speaks at a podium, flanked by the UK and EU flags
              • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
                Michael Ellam tapped up to be UK’s next ‘EU sherpa’

                If appointed, Gordon Brown’s former communications chief would lead reset talks with Brussels

                Michael Ellam
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