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The City of London has long been the source of investment for the next big thing and its financiers are keen to make the most of our liberation from the EU with a new Big Bang. That was the dynamic slashing of financial regulations that gave Maggie Thatcher s 1980s their big boost. Combined with tax cuts, it would attract global investment in the way that Trump s economic stimulus gave the US its lowest unemployment since the 1960s - until Covid-19 halted progress.
In an echo of imperial days when the port of London was crowded with shipping, plans are already underway for a boom in foreign shipping registered in the UK.
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With the Brexit transition period ending on Januar 1and local manufacturers and producers hit hard by the pandemic, the group wants the public and government to focus on British-made products ahead of foreign ones. The campaign - backed by the Sunday Express - will see ministers lobbied to look at procurement rules on issues such as medical products and steel, while the public will be asked to support local products. Tatton MP Esther McVey, the founder of the Blue Collar Cons
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Emmanuel Macron s potential rival at the 2022 French presidential election, Xavier Bertrand, has once again asked the President to offer Calais special tax privileges in a bid to entice customers from mainland Britain after the Brexit transition period. Mr Bertrand is a high-profile former member of Les Républicains and with strong links to the fishing industry. He is the President of the Hauts-de-France region and served as health minister under Jacques Chirac and
With the UK and the European Union reaching the last stages of their annual negotiation pantomime and talk shifting with comforting predictability to an imminent Brexit agreement, the recent noise around no deal has obscured discussion of the UK’s future place in the world. Behind the headlines, however, the government’s plans are taking shape. The priority isn’t cars, or even – astonishingly – fish, but data. The consequences for the standards of privacy and protection we have become accustomed to, and increasingly expect, are huge; those for the long-term shape of the UK economy perhaps larger still. Strikingly, Britain’s National Data Strategy, published in December, seeks to “maintain the high watermark of data use set during the pandemic”, which means “positioning the UK as a global champion of data use, and encouraging the international flow of information across borders”. The UK’s first post-Brexit trade deals are organised around this ambitio