Michael Gove is set to hold crisis talks with Brussels today in a bid to defuse growing tensions in Northern Ireland in the wake of last week’s vaccine exports fiasco. The Minister for the Cabinet Office is expected to call for post-Brexit trading arrangements between Britain and Northern Ireland to be relaxed. It comes after … Read more
The EU was accused of ‘cocking up big time’ last night after announcing controls to stop vaccine exports reaching the UK through Northern Ireland – only to abruptly backtrack following widespread condemnation. Politicians in London, Dublin and Belfast rounded on Brussels for unilaterally overriding part of the Brexit deal to effectively create a hard border … Read more
We have known for a long time that the European Union is a bully. It bullied Greece during the financial crisis which started in 2009, and from the moment the British people voted to leave the bloc, it tried to bully us into submission. But never until now have we seen the increasingly tyrannical nature … Read more
Thought you’d seen the back of Brussels sprouts? Fortnum & Mason is mocked for selling the veg PICKLED for £7.95 Food store Fortnum and Mason was mocked for selling pickled Brussels sprouts The retailer has slashed the price on the jarred food from £9.95 to £7.45 One shopper asked whether there would be ‘free air … Read more
You couldn’t be more European than Astrazeneca. Pascal Soriot, the chief executive, is French, Leif Johansson, the chairman, is Swedish, Marc Dunoyer, the finance director, is also French while its management team and top scientists include people from Spain, Italy, Holland and Britain, to name just a few countries. Its corporate HQ and global research … Read more
Brussels is tonight attempting to requisition tens of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses manufactured for the UK. EU chiefs demanded that AstraZeneca jabs made in Staffordshire and Oxfordshire be diverted to make up for a 75million shortfall on the continent. The European Commission said the Anglo-Swedish firm was obliged to meet its contractual obligations despite production … Read more
How grand, how admirable it sounded back in June when the European Union set up a Covid-19 vaccine-buying programme to pool the purchase power of all member states. This pan-European approach would, it was claimed, ‘ensure fair and equitable access for all across the EU’. Under the terms of the programme, individual countries were forbidden … Read more
A woman was shocked to see the face of Jesus staring back at her from a Brussels sprout while she was preparing vegetables – and decided to spare it from the pan. Shaunagh Roberts, 34, from Waltham Abbey, Essex, was about to slice the bottom off the leafy veg and, ironically, score a cross in … Read more
Spain became the latest EU country to ban flights from the EU today, with every member of the bloc now having slammed their doors shut to British travellers apart from Greece and Cyprus. Urgent talks are underway in Brussels this morning to agree a EU-wide response to contain the new mutant strain of the virus … Read more
Downing Street was ‘incandescent’ when France announced its UK travel ban on Sunday night and is convinced Emmanuel Macron is trying to use the crisis to force Britain to cave in during Brexit trade talks, it was claimed today. Number 10 yesterday publicly dismissed suggestions that there may be a Brexit element to Mr Macron’s … Read more