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Since leaving the European Union, British passport holders go through European border control in a different line to their EU counterparts. Former London mayor candidate Siobhan Benita said: “At Lyon airport stuck in huge queue with other Brits for passport control. Before we left the EU I would have walked straight through with my French husband. “I will never not detest my black passport that symbolises everything stupid about Brexit.” Commenting on a video of a long line in Gare du Nord, EU regulatory lawyer Jessica Simor said: “Brexit. What a stupid stupid stupid thing to do.”
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Brexit has created more opportunities for the Netherlands as compared to the UK, remainers have claimed as businesses seem to make surplus in Holland since the UK left the European Union.
Ministers for finding Brexit opportunities seem to be surplus to requirement in the Netherlands, where businesses are setting up at a rate of knots to avoid cross-Channel trade issues.
The influx of British-based companies to the country has swelled as they struggle with the disruption of a customs border across the North Sea, the FT reports.
The European Movement tweeted: “Here’s one of your Brexit benefits… it’s just… it benefits the Netherlands, not the UK.
NIGEL FARAGE has apparently confirmed that Donald Trump will run again for US President in the 2024 American election.
Speaking to Dan Wootton on GB News, the former MEP coyly stated he “would never reveal any private conversation” with Mr Trump before admitting “he’s [Mr Trump] running”.
The 45th President has hinted at another run for the White House in November 2024, after refusing to concede defeat when he lost to Joe Biden in 2020.
When asked by Mr Wootton about the possibility, Mr Farage replied: “I was at Mar-a-Lago 10 days ago, he [Mr Trump] was just in the best form I have ever seen him.”
There are three main areas that industry and officials have warned the UK is at risk of letting slip away.
These include new rules to facilitate boosted investment in the tech sector from pension funds, Britain’s new digital competition programme and how it regulates data.
Critics have argued the Government needs to be far more ambitious if it is to reap the potential benefits in these three areas.
Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who was commissioned by Boris Johnson to help the UK to make changes to its regulatory regime after Brexit, said: “This has got to be done at a gallop rather than a walk.
A Tory MP has berated officials who are determined “we get no wins” from Brexit.
Wokingham MP Sir John Redwood said these officials are intent on proving their pessimism ahead of the 2016 vote was justified.
The job of taking advantage of Brexit was made all the more difficult, he added, by those who simply want to see Britain mirror the EU “as they like what it does”.
Almost six years after Britons voted to leave the Brussels bloc, Sir John said it was “extraordinary just how much concerted pressure among the official and legal establishment and the House of Lords there still is against the whole idea of Brexit”.
Fury has erupted as some UK businesses have moved hubs to the EU and have lashed out at the government over post-Brexit trade uncertainties.
An influx of British-based companies to the Netherlands has surged over the past few year as they struggle to deal with the disruption of a customs border across the North Sea. More than 90 investors have built or rented distribution space there since 2017 – half of them during last year alone – according to government agency Invest in Holland. One of these firms is Huboo, a logistics provider to online retailers. Chief executive Martin Bysh insisted the company was forced into urgent action after clients deserted it when Brexit talks were still ongoing in late 2020.
His sentiments were echoed by former Brexit MEP Ben Habib who said the move was “an unashamed attempt to control free thinking” and “the sort of thing you would expect from a totalitarian state”. Both were speaking after the ratification by the European Parliament of a bloc-wide plan calling on member states to begin teaching lessons on “European integration” in a bid to dispel Euroscepticism in the wake of Brexit.
The foreign secretary has launched the “UK-Indonesia Roadmap” between the two countries which commits them to closer working across a range of important areas from trade and investment, to counterterrorism and cyber security.
It also commits Britain to closer ties with the Indonesian economy, which is forecast to more than quintuple in GDP with 532 percent growth between 2020 and 2050.
The poll showed that 37 percent of people who voted Conservative at the last election back the National Rally leader, while only 24 percent back Emmanuel Macron.
35 percent of people who voted Leave in the Brexit referendum favour Ms Le Pen, the poll showed, while only 19 percent favour Mr Macron.
Mr Macron is currently as little as six points ahead of his rival, who has vowed to ban hijab from public spaces, calling it a “uniform of totalitarian ideology”.
Mr Johnson has said claimed offshore processing is an “innovative approach made possible by Brexit freedoms” and part of Britain “taking back control”.
However, David Davis, who is a Brexiteer, called the plans “morally delinquent”.
He said: “The freedoms of Brexit should be about innovations justifying British exceptionalism on the basis of moral leadership – not moral delinquency.”
“Outsourcing our international obligations are certainly not the freedoms that Brexit was about winning.”
He added: “We are better than this. Or at least, we used to be.”
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Author Nick Tyrone, took particular issue with Government funding for Cornwall, which he described as another example of a “Brexit promise broken”.
He wrote in a piece on Twitter: “If Britain had remained in the EU, Cornwall would have got £300million over the next three years in structural funding.
“Instead, the UK Government is giving Cornwall £132million, ie £168million less than if we’d Remained.”
Mr Tyrone, writer of the “This Week in Brexitland” blog, added: “Another Brexit promise broken and another example of how we’re worse off out.”
Other social media users were quick to suggest the new funding plans were, however, far more suitable than those which were implemented under Brussels’s watch.
Gary Turner wrote: “OUR money is clearly being used elsewhere where it’s needed.
“Just to clarify Nick, it’s wasn’t the EU’s money, it was ours that was distributed without any input from the UK.
“I would say it’s a Brexit bonus! We have regained control of where our money goes.”
The influx of British-based companies to the Netherlands has surged over the past few year as they struggle to deal with the disruption of a customs border across the North Sea.
More than 90 investors have built or rented distribution space there since 2017 – half of them during last year alone – according to government agency Invest in Holland.
One of these firms is Huboo, a logistics provider to online retailers. Chief executive Martin Bysh insisted the company was forced into urgent action after clients deserted it when Brexit talks were still ongoing in late 2020.
He said: “We lost about 10 percent of our revenue, which was clients leaving the UK for Europe. It was a chaotic landscape.
“We didn’t know what to do, and there was almost no government advice.”
Mr Bysh added many smaller companies stopped supplying the EU because they could not understand the paperwork and became increasingly fearful they would be trading illegally.
Mr Johnson’s Government repeatedly warned the UK was ready to leave the bloc on December 31 of that year without a trade deal as it tried to get the best terms from Brussels.
The Brexiteer and Reform UK leader warned the Conservative Party could become split over the impending climate crisis as it “will become as big as Brexit or bigger” in the months ahead.
Mr Tice said the Tories are “out-of-touch” with their voters over climate change as he announced his plan to exploit this in the upcoming local elections.
He told The Daily Telegraph: “It will be a seismic crisis for them because of what will happen to people’s bills.
“Some Tories in the shires get bamboozled by the green lobby. But most of the members are completely in our camp – cut taxes, go for growth, become self-reliant and use our own shale gas.”
Mr Tice, who replaced Nigel Farage as Reform UK leader, said his party would focus on Red Wall voters as he warned “millions of people” will not able to pay their bills if the Government doesn’t act.
Families across the UK have been crippled by rising bills for food, goods and travel as the Government looks to reducing Britain’s carbon footprint.
Reform UK will have around 120 candidates standing in the local elections and a candidate in the Wakefield by-eleciton after the resignation of Imran Ahmad Khan, who was found guilty of child sex offences.
Mr Tice added: “We will be the only candidate there campaigning on a manifesto of cutting taxes hard now, for shale gas, and the best way to level up is to use your own energy.”
British pet owners face paying nearly £200 every time they take their pets to Europe, due to post-Brexit red tape.
The European Union no longer accepts “pet passports” issued in Britain, even if they were issued before Brexit. Britons must now pay around £180 for an “Animal Healthcare Certificate” from a vet before they decide to go overseas with their furry friends.
The certificates are valid for just four months, so a new one will have to be issued multiple times for frequent travellers.
As the red tape is only on the EU side, travellers can be crafty and obtain EU pet passports in EU states for as little as €20, according to Pets That Travel, a consultancy. The Government is currently trying to slash the red tape so that British pet passports can once again be accepted by EU nations.
The UK Government is set to take a tough stance in Brexit trade deal negotiations and not allow more Indians to come to the UK through new visa routes as part of any trade deal between the two countries.
The possibility of special Indian visas has reportedly not been discussed in the opening two rounds of negotiations, and that International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has not put the issue on the table.
This would be in contrast to speculation earlier this year indicating Ms Trevelyan and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss wanted to ease immigration rules for Indian nationals as part of any trade pact.
The UK and India will meet for the latest round of talks in New Delhi later this month.
Ms Trevelyan will be looking to secure deeper access for City services firms who want to do business in India, while also slashing tariffs on key UK exports such as Scotch whisky.
There has been growing speculation India is chasing increased access to immigration visas for its citizens as a part of any deal.
The latest figures from the Home Office recently showed there was a 14 percent jump in British visas handed to Indian nationals between 2019 and 2021.
But a source close to Ms Trevelyan told City AM “the prospect of more Indian visas has not even been discussed in the first two rounds of negotiations” and that “it’s just not on the table”.
The influx of British-based companies to the Netherlands has surged over the past few year as they struggle to deal with the disruption of a customs border across the North Sea.
More than 90 investors have built or rented distribution space there since 2017 – half of them during last year alone – according to government agency Invest in Holland.
One of these firms is Huboo, a logistics provider to online retailers. Chief executive Martin Bysh insisted the company was forced into urgent action after clients deserted it when Brexit talks were still ongoing in late 2020.
He said: “We lost about 10 percent of our revenue, which was clients leaving the UK for Europe. It was a chaotic landscape.
“We didn’t know what to do, and there was almost no government advice.”
Mr Bysh added many smaller companies stopped supplying the EU because they could not understand the paperwork and became increasingly fearful they would be trading illegally.
In the latest Cabinet reshuffle, Jacob Rees-Mogg was made Brexit Opportunities Minister and was set a brief to take advantage of the benefits of Britain withdrawing from the EU.
But senior Brexiteers have warned he has a lot set against him due to the number of officials who are “determined we get no wins” from Brexit.
Wokingham MP Sir John Redwood said these figures are intent on proving their pessimism ahead of the 2016 vote was justified.
The job of taking advantage of Brexit was made all the more difficult, he added, by those who simply want to see Britain mirror the EU “as they like what it does”.
Almost six years after Britons voted to leave the Brussels bloc, Sir John said it was “extraordinary just how much concerted pressure among the official and legal establishment and the House of Lords there still is against the whole idea of Brexit”.
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