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Opinion: The government must change its approach if the new subsidy control system is to be a success
The government has an opportunity to design a better system than the EU state aid regime it will replace, but its current approach risks missing the opportunity
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01 Jun 2021
The subsidy control bill – announced in the Queen’s Speech and expected shortly – will be one of the first opportunities for the government to show a ‘Brexit dividend’ by designing a better system than EU state aid rules. It was an opportunity that UK negotiators fought hard for in Brexit talks last year, and the final deal allows the UK to design its own domestic system to regulate around £8bn of subsidies offered to businesses by governments and public bodies each year.
The Daily Express Jayne Adye said there are now 1,659 foreign vessels licensed to fish in the United Kingdom’s waters. “The Prime Minister has had great electoral success through his messaging of ‘Brexit being done’, combined with the vaccine rollout,” she said. “However, if the Conservatives want to stay in power beyond the next General Election and keep these new votes, promises of ‘Taking Back Control’ must actually be delivered upon, rather than simply being more empty rhetoric.” She asked how the Government could claim to have taken back control of our waters with so many foreign vessels allowed to fish our waters.
Pedro and Ricky Come Again by Jonathan Meades review â dandyish Hulk rampage
From Duchamp to Orwell, fascism to Brexit ⦠this collection of journalism and speeches showcases one of the worldâs best haters, who has never composed a dull paragraph
âAn ear for the brutal music of invectiveâ ⦠Jonathan Meades. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
âAn ear for the brutal music of invectiveâ ⦠Jonathan Meades. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
Wed 28 Apr 2021 02.30 EDT
Jonathan Meades is a sceptic. Not in the debased sense of someone who gullibly parrots the claims of shills and the deluded that global warming is a hoax, or that masks donât mitigate the spread of respiratory viruses. Nor in the idly egotistical sense Meades himself identifies as âthe English bents towards spiritual sloth and intellectual incuriosity, what we dignify as scepticismâ. But in the fiery and ancient sense of scepticism: he is not just a man of litt