Tag Archive: exports

Brexit: it’s how you tell ’em

September 3, 2021 1:44 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It started yesterday with a self-important piece in PoliticsHome headed: “Post-Brexit UK Food Industry Is £2bn Worse Off After “Disastrous” Fall In... View Article

Brexit: a dose of realism

May 14, 2021 1:35 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Assuming the Indian coronavirus variant doesn’t delay the process of relaxing controls, it appears that we’re in for something of... View Article

Brexit: an unrealisable dream

February 20, 2021 12:31 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Although the impetus for the Single Market came from the European Council in Milan in June 1985, when it endorsed... View Article

Brexit: on their own

February 19, 2021 12:26 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There is no excuse for Starmer’s behaviour. The leader of the main opposition party has delivered a major speech on his “vision”... View Article

Brexit: an economist has spoken

February 17, 2021 12:22 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Despite considerable – although poorly recorded – anecdotal evidence that UK exports have taken a hit, government sources are trying... View Article

Brexit: blissfully uncomprehending

February 15, 2021 2:09 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

For a long time now, we’ve been used to the uselessness of Andrew Marr, but on yesterday’s programme, interviewing foreign... View Article

Brexit: hardship tales

February 13, 2021 1:33 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The BBC has joined the throng of news organisations feeding off the misery of British exporters trying to do business on the... View Article

Brexit: shellfish recap

February 10, 2021 12:39 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I think, after all this time and effort, we’ve got to the point in the great shellfish drama that we... View Article

Brexit: a lost cause

February 7, 2021 2:00 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The good news is that the Covid-19 figures are going the right way – across the board. Cases, hospital admissions... View Article

Brexit: for want of a form

February 4, 2021 1:23 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

After Tuesday’s marathon – spending more than eight hours of trawling through the EU legislation, and sundry guidelines, EU and... View Article

Brexit: cockles and mussels…

February 3, 2021 3:37 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

To add to the general grief to businesses occasioned by the “Boris botch” which has become Brexit, three weeks into... View Article

Brexit: still here

February 1, 2021 8:22 pm Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Attempts at measured analysis, it would seem, are no longer permitted in certain quarters. If one does not immediately launch... View Article

Brexit: the veterinary quagmire

January 26, 2021 7:51 pm Published by Richard North Post a Comment

A long-running problem spilled over into the pages of The Times yesterday when Shane Brennan, chief Executive of the Cold Chain Federation,... View Article

Brexit: muddying the waters

January 20, 2021 2:23 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There can be no dispute that EU-UK trade in the post-Brexit environment is an evolving situation of exceptional complexity. It... View Article

Brexit: thin gruel and sausages

October 22, 2020 1:40 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

“What will not change”, Michel Barnier told MEPs in Brussels yesterday, “is the framework we have set on behalf of the European... View Article