Johnson talks with 30 business leaders about cutting red tape as ministers draw up plans to turn 🇬🇧 into “Singapore🇸🇬 of Europe”.

Govt source said Johnson pushing for 🇬🇧 to become a low-tax, low-regulation regime like 🇸🇬

thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
Last month Johnson raised the prospect of tax cuts for entrepreneurs.

He told a Facebook question-and-answer session: “We’ll be looking at the tax environment and the regulatory environment and everything we can do to encourage and support business.”

thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
Brussels has yet to grant 🇬🇧“equivalence” rulings for financial sector, diverging from the present framework could lead to more business undertaken in 🇬🇧being shifted to EU.

Ripping up red tape should be weighed against the cost of less preferential access to European markets.
Ministers spent 2020 seeking to brand no-deal Brexit as an “Australian-style” deal with the EU.

But they sought “Canadian-style terms” during negotiations.

As 🇬🇧 now charts its path beyond perhaps before looking to Asia it’s time to realise this is a journey without precedent. Image
And yesterday the headlines were dominated with tax rises and today its tax cuts. So which is it going to be?

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“Dom would often go dark. For long periods and in critical moments he was simply absent from the building and unreachable. Most basic decisions, which bc of his all-pervading authority needed his sign off piled up in his in box
most of which went unanswered. Most decision-making simply became a matter of guessing what Dom would do — an odd way of forcing everyone to be brainwashed into the mind of Dom. He was entirely uninterested in 99 percent of issues or crises, leaving the No. 10 staff leaderless.”
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“That’s why on 2nd EU referendum (which I favoured) only one argument from the other side worried me.

It was that many of those voting for Brexit had seen the Leave vote as a rare victory. And if people like me took it away, it would be yet another sign that they didn’t matter.
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👏 Why not make this £350M one-off perm and try to break the cycle of disadvantage and negative attitude to education?
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There was stand-off. Family members turned up, paramedics had poor resident on a stretcher at the door and wouldn’t go away until we allowed them in. And all we got was ‘you’re not following the guidelines’

We were threatened with the police if we did not let this person in.”
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British newspaper headlines lead on @neil_ferguson while the rest of world talks about Britain.

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Let’s start with Turkey 🇹🇷

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Sydney 🇦🇺

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USA 🇺🇸

What went wrong with UK's initial Covid-19 response?

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BMA latest ethics advice #coronavirus

🚑 Medics could be forced to make “grave decisions”.

🚑 Decisions on rationing scarce resources eg ventilators could determine whether large numbers of patients will receive life-saving treatment or not.

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🚑🚑🚑 “Health professionals may be obliged to withdraw treatment from some patients to enable treatment of other patients with a higher survival probability,” the guidance states.
🚑🚑🚑 “This may involve withdrawing treatment from an individual who is stable or even improving but whose objective assessment indicates a worse prognosis than another patient who requires the same resource.”
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