No-one wants a World Trade Organisation ‘no-deal’ Brexit, right? So why not rule it out now, once and for all. Wouldn’t that be safer, and let everyone calm down? Well no, not really. Taking the option off the table wouldn’t just massively weaken the Prime Minister’s negotiating position. It could…
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Weston-super-Mare MP John Penrose backed the Government in Tuesday night’s Brexit vote. The town’s MP has told the Mercury he supported the Government in yesterday’s Brexit vote as ‘everyone wants the Brexit Saga to be over and done with’. The Government’s controversial Brexit withdrawl agreement was defeated in the House…
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Brexit will be a “unique opportunity” for the UK to work with international partners to combat corruption, the government has said. The government published its updated anti-corruption strategy last week, to outline how it will contribute to the global fight against fraud and corruption by continuing working with global partners after it leaves the…
Read More‘Hello Mr Penrose I have the Prime Minister on the line. Will you hold?’ It’s at moments like these that mobile phones matter, because I could see it was genuinely Downing Street, rather than one of my mates winding me up. I hadn’t been expecting the call. But life is…
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