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How is new immigration system and preference for high-skilled labour working?
@M_Sumption: EU migration has been pretty low, only few thousand coming in on work visas - may be Brexit but also pandemic etc, & may not remain like this forever
@M_Sumption: EU migration has been pretty low, only few thousand coming in on work visas - may be Brexit but also pandemic etc, & may not remain like this forever
.@M_Sumption: re. shortages, really difficult to disentangle causes & not clear how long these problems will last
Will depend how easy will be for employers/economy to adjust through automation/shifts in industry size
Will depend how easy will be for employers/economy to adjust through automation/shifts in industry size
about to watch supertimely @instituteforgov #IfGBrexit event..govt about out tell business to check, change, go.. but is business likely to be ready do to that?
@instituteforgov Ian Wright tells everyone winter is peak time for food imports.. food has kept flowing despite corona.. no deal Brexit preps worked...but can't assume preps will work in 6 months time
@instituteforgov new border model will be much more complicated.. asks whether JIT food supply system.. industry asked 90 detailed questions on how model wd work ..
Interesting listening to @StefaanDeRynck.
Couldn’t agree more on the point around every FTA being bespoke and tailor-made. The fact that a country offered a concession to another trade partner does not automatically mean that subsequent partners are entitled to it as well.
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Couldn’t agree more on the point around every FTA being bespoke and tailor-made. The fact that a country offered a concession to another trade partner does not automatically mean that subsequent partners are entitled to it as well.
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Especially that more often than not concessions are offered IN RETURN for something else.
You can't ask for only half of a deal.
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You can't ask for only half of a deal.
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Here at the @instituteforgov where they’re discussing how the Northern Ireland protocol will work in practice
Panelists are:
- Manufacturing NI Chief Executive Stephen Kelly
- Customs and trade guru Dr Anna Jerzewska
- Alliance MP Stephen Farry
- Irish Times’ Dennis Staunton
Panelists are:
- Manufacturing NI Chief Executive Stephen Kelly
- Customs and trade guru Dr Anna Jerzewska
- Alliance MP Stephen Farry
- Irish Times’ Dennis Staunton
Reminder: The @instituteforgov recently warned that preparations for implementing the NI protocol have been “hindered” because Boris Johnson has not “accepted reality” of what it’ll mean https://t.co/VpYNBriPNX
Manufacturing NI’s Stephen Kelly says businesses in Northern Ireland cannot prepare properly for the protocol because its implications are “yet to be properly defined” - publicly or privately - by the UK government #IfGBrexit
Karen Wheeler (formerly of UK govt #Border Delivery group) made some interesting points at @ifgevents #IfGBrexit today.*
Here's a v.brief summary.
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*[so did @AllieRenison and @Lorand_Bartels too, you won't be surprised to hear]
Here's a v.brief summary.
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*[so did @AllieRenison and @Lorand_Bartels too, you won't be surprised to hear]
She said UK govt has been trying to guide UK businesses in prep for #NoDeal but particularly difficult for NI.
'Cos v. unclear how IRL wd deal with border.
Without knowing arrangements on the other side, it is extremely difficult for cross-border traders to prepare/comply.
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'Cos v. unclear how IRL wd deal with border.
Without knowing arrangements on the other side, it is extremely difficult for cross-border traders to prepare/comply.
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This leaves NI businesses at a heavy disadvantage in a No Deal, being only prepared for the UK side of trade.
Worsened, she noted, by high number of small businesses in cross-border trade.
Unilateral policy of the UK for land border in a No Deal thus 'somewhat difficult'.
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Worsened, she noted, by high number of small businesses in cross-border trade.
Unilateral policy of the UK for land border in a No Deal thus 'somewhat difficult'.
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Nick Boles tells @ifgevents that his former Tory party is "putting it bluntly, now a party of old, rich people... Most of them have a full pension pot and literally no connection with the world of work... They are driving the politics of our governing party" #IfGBrexit
@ifgevents Boles says the idea that the Brexit impasse is due to the House of Commons finding it hard to compromise is a "frankly pathetic" and "most appallingly lame" excuse. He blames the failure of cross-party efforts on a lack of leadership by Theresa May #IfGBrexit
@ifgevents Boles says the Tory party is "overdue a very long time in the wilderness while it works out what it believes in" #IfGBrexit
Here at @instituteforgov where former UK rep to the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers, is going to be speaking about Brexit and HMG’s handling of it very shortly 
Sir Ivan Rogers kicks off by saying UK-EU trade negotiations are the first he can think of in history in which 2 sides seek "to get further apart"
He says that every other trade negotiation is about "converging and dismantling barriers to trade" — but Brexit is the opposite
He says that every other trade negotiation is about "converging and dismantling barriers to trade" — but Brexit is the opposite
Rogers says that people around Theresa May at the start of the Article 50 process "didn't know very much about European Councils or that much about the EU"
So far the dominant message from the #IFGBrexit event featuring EU correspondents In London is that the story seems on endless loop of nothing new happening
Strong view that the UK government does not understand how the EU works #ifgbrexit
... and that UK attempts at cherry picking cannot work without similar legal constructs to those binding EU members
