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Nigel Farage now leads the new Reform UK Party, previously known as the Brexit Party, and has fielded candidates for the upcoming Scottish Parliamentary and local elections. He blasted the Government and said the civil service, House of Lords and the tackling of coronavirus had to be looked at as they were not fit for purpose. Mr Farage reiterated that his party was not just about opposing lockdown and that Reform UK had many different policies, which he revealed on-air.
Switzerland s push to persuade Britain to join EFTA before Brexit pact Martina Bet
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Since January 1 this year, the UK is no longer a member of the EU single market and customs union. The EU s four freedoms - the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people - no longer apply to the UK. In the UK, Remainers appear to have moved on - because as of yet nobody has started planning a route back to full EU membership.
However, Alistair Carmichael, the Lib Dem MP for Orkney and Shetland, recently said Britain should join EFTA, the organisation with access to the EU s single market but without membership of the bloc, as soon as possible.
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Britain has formally applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), formerly the TPP, with negotiations set to start later this year. Since leaving the EU, Britain has made clear its desire to join the trade bloc, which removes most tariffs between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement: “One year after our departure from the EU we are forging new partnerships that will br
Vaccine Fiasco Marks ‘Beginning of End of EU’, Says Farage
3 Feb 2021
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has said that the European Commission’s disastrous handling of the bloc’s vaccination programme marks “the beginning of the end of the European Union as we know it”.
European media has continued to criticise Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for leading the EU’s failing vaccination programme. Only around three per cent of the EU27’s population is inoculated on average. In contrast, Brexit Britain, which signed contracts with drugs firms such as AstraZeneca months before Brussels, has protected more than 14 per cent of its inhabitants.